ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. SG9 



Filipendula n. 1 135. Hall. Htst. v. 2. ot). 



Ulmaria. Rail Syn. 2.30. C/o'. Pami. 699. /. Hist. v. 2. 198./. 

 Bauh. Hist. t\3. p. 2. 488./. bad. 



Regina prati. Dod. Pempt. 57. f. Ger. Em. 1043./ 



Barbicapra. Lob. Ic. 711./. 



In moist meadows, and about the banks of rivers and ditches, 

 common. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root fibrous, without knobs. Stems 3 or 4 feet high, leafy, 

 branched, furrowed, angular, smooth. Leaves of a few large, 

 pointed, unequally serrated, veiny leojlets ; the terminal one 



. deeply 3-lobed ; intermediate ones very small ; all white and 

 densely downy beneath. Stipulas rounded, deeply toothed. 

 Fl. extremely numerous, cream coloured, with a sweet but 

 oppressive hawthorn-like scent, in dense, compound cymose pa- 

 uicles. Cal. reflexed. Pet. roundish, Stam. numerous. Ger- 

 mens G or 8, sometimes more, spirally contorted, with shoxistyles, 

 and large capitate stigmas. 



The taste of the herbage, like the scent of the flowers, is aromatic, 

 resembling the American Gaultheria procumbens, as is well ob- 

 served by Dr. Bigelow, in his American Medical Botany, v. 2. 

 30. ^.22, Nor is it unlike the flavour of Orange-flower water. 

 Dried sloe-leaves partake of this flavour, see p. 357 ; and hence 

 we trace it to the perfume of green tea, and the delicious odour 

 of the Chinese Olea fragrans, a plant in no respect allied to our 

 Meadow-sweet. 



SpircBa salicifolia, see n. 1 , has been found in Gibside wood, Dur- 

 ham, by Mr. R. Wigham. 



ICOSANDRIA VOLYGYMA. 

 254. ROSA. Rose. 



Lm«.Ge«. 254. Jim. 335. Fl. Br.'t'S?. Sm. in Rcess Cyd. v. 30. 

 Tourn. t. 408. Lam. t. 410. G(crln. t. 73. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. 

 r. 12. 173. 



Nat. Orel. Senticoscc. Linn. 3.5. Rosacac. Juss. D2. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 loaf; lube pitcher-sliaped, conlrncted at 

 the summit, permanent, finally sncciilonl ; limb in 5 



