152 ICOSANb. POLYGYN. 



3. P. Aria {white Beam-tree)^ leaves ovate cut and serrated 



vi'hite and downy beneath, flowers corymbose. LightJ. p. 255 



{CratcBgus Jrta). £.5./. 1858. 

 Hab, Woods, but not common, Sibbald. Sea-rocks near Lismoro, in 



the Isle of Bernera, Dr. Walker. Rocks in the Kmg's Park, Kdinb.^ 



Maugh. Fl. June, fj . 

 Small tree, remarkable for the white mealiness or close down on the 

 , under-side of the leaves, flowerstalks and cal. Veins of the leaves 



very prominent beneath. Fruit scarlet. 



4. SP1R.EA. 



* Shrubby. 



1. S. salicifolia {willow -leaved Spircca), leaves ovato- lanceolate 

 serrated glabrous, racemes terminal compound. E. B. t. 1468. 



Hab. \V^oods. Wild in Scotland, G. Don, in E. B. Abundant in woods 

 at Arniston, Craigie hall and Cramond Bridge, Maugh. Cliesh 

 ^^■()ods, Mr. Arnott. Banks of Cartlane Crags, Glasg., Hopk. Fl. 

 .July. \i . 

 Small branching shrub. Floivers in crowded racemes^ forming a 

 • dense sort of spike of a rose colour. • 



** Herbaceous. 



2. S. Filipeiidula {common Dropwort), haves interruptedly pin- 

 nate, all the leaflets uniform deeply cut or serrated panicula- 

 to-cymose. Light/, p. 259. E.B.t.2S4. 



Hab. Mountain pastures. Hills to the S, W. of Arthur's Seat, Light/. 

 Fl. July. 11 . 



Root with rather long tubers. Stem a foot high, panicled above. Leaf- 

 lets small, lanceolate, intermediate ones not half their size. Stipules 

 united, serrated. Flov:ers yellowish white, tipped witli rose colour. 



3. S. Ulmaria {Meadow-stveet), lea.\es interruptedly pinnate ser- 

 rated downy beneath, terminal leaflet largest and lobed, flow- 

 ers in compound (and as it were proliferous) cymes. Light/, 

 p. 259. E.B.t.960. 



Hab. Meadows and banks of ditches. Fl. July. U • 

 Sfcin 3 — 4 feet high, branched upward. Lea/lets ovate, acuminate, 

 very large, especially the terminal Cgenerally) 3-lobed one; in- 

 termediate ones minute. Flowers yellowish white, numerous, sweet- 

 scented. 



3. POLYGYNIA. 



5. ROSA^ 



* PniPiNELLiFOLi^. Setigerous,u-ith arms crowded, nearly uniform, 

 or unarmed; mostly icifhout bracteas. Leaflets ovate or oblong. 

 Segments of the Cal. connivent, persistent. Disk scarcely any. 



1. R. rubella {red-fruited dwarf Rose), arms crowded equal, 

 fruit elongate pendulous. Lindl. p. 40. E. B. t. 2521. 



'• The Scottish Roses, imperfectly as they are now understood, would 

 h.Tve been much more so m ore it not for the arnn-ate investigation the 



