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high, but in moderate hind from tliree to four; as their whole height 

 is one year's growth from the root: they are terminated by spikes of 

 pale red or flesh-coloured flowers. It flowers in June and July ; and 

 in moist seasons there are frequently young shoots fronj the root 

 which flower in autumn. It is a native of Siberia. 



There are several varieties: as the Flesh-coloured Willow-leaved, 

 the Alpine Willow-leaved, the Panicled Willow-lcaved, and the 

 Broad Willow-leaved Spiraea. 



The second species has the stalks slender, and branching out 

 near the ground, Avilh a purple bark covered with a gray mealy 

 down: the leaves smaller than those of the first, downy and veined 

 on their under side, but of a bright green above: the branches ter- 

 minated by a thick raceme of flowers, branched towards the bottom 

 into small spikes: the flowers very small, of a beautiful red colour, 

 appearing in July, August and September. It is a native of 

 Pensylvania. 



The third rises with several slender shrubby stalks five or six 

 feet high, covered with a dark brown bark, sending out small side 

 branches the whole length: the leaves small, wedge-shaped, having 

 many punctures on their surface: the flowers in small sessile umbels, 

 each on a long slender pedicel, and while: they appear in May and 

 June; ami as the flowers are produced almost the whole length of 

 he branches, it makes a good appearance during the time of flower- 

 ing. It is a nalivc of Italy and .AniPiifa. 



The fourth species has striated erect branches, with short branch- 

 lets: the leaves allernale, petioled, silky-tomentose on both sides: 

 the racemes longer than the branchlets: the flowers very small, with 

 villose germs. It is a native of New Granada. 



The fifth has abundant shoots, seldom two ells high, the thick- 

 ness of the finger, wand-like, branched: the wood brittle: the bark 

 of the shoots yellowish-brown, witn prominent dots scattered over it: 

 the branches alternate, commonly angular, with a testaceous bark 

 somewhat striated, and in the younger branches covered with a 

 tender ash-coloured epidermis, which falls off"; the annual shoots are 

 grooved and pubescent: the leaves alternate, softish, pubescent with 



