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prostrate hairs, quite entire at the base, but commonly gash-serrate 

 from the middle to the end, Avhere they are sharp: corymbs at the 

 top of the stems frequent, many-flowered, terminating the annual 

 alternate shoots: in gardens and in moist shady places these corymbs 

 are more elongated ; but in a ruder soil most of the peduncles are 

 clustered at the top like an umbel: the flowers biggish, while, having 

 a weak virose smell, and fugacious. It is a native of Siberia, &C; 



It varies very much, with larger or smaller leaves, more or less 

 cut, but more commonly quite entire and ovate-acute. 



The sixth species has several stems, scarcely two ells high, very 

 much branched from the bottom: the branches rod-like, round, with 

 a testaceous bark cloven longitudinally: the leaves on the younger 

 branches and annual shoots alternate, attended with smaller ones in 

 little bundles, hoary or glaucous, three-nerved, hardish, varying in 

 form and size; on the luxuriant shoots or branches sometimes ovate- 

 acute, widish, serrulate from the tip beyond the middle; but com- 

 monly oblong, bluntish, crenulate, or serrulate towards the tip, or 

 more commonly quite entire: the corymbs at the ends of the annual 

 twigs, very abundant, disposed along the branches on one side in 

 hemispherical clusters: the flowers smallish, white, odorous. It is a 

 native of Spain, &c. flowering here in April and May. 



The seventh has numerous stems, scarcely thicker than a swan's 

 quill, very much branched, upright, Avith a gray bark more or less 

 pale, and somewhat angular, with sharp streaks running down from 

 the branches: the branches and branchlets alternate, those of the 

 last year very smooth and yellow, leafy, and terminated by an 

 umbel: the leaves alternate, on very short petioles, smooth, glaucous, 

 wide-ovate, retuse, gash-trilobate: they vary even in the garden, 

 with fewer or more frequent gashes, with the teeth or lobes obtuse 

 or acute, in breadth, &c.: the umbels very frequent at the ends of 

 the annual branches: peduncles often more than thirty, besides a 

 few axillary ones scattered below the umbel: the flowers middle- 

 sized, white. It is an elegant shrub, and a native of Siberia. 



The eighth species rises with many shrubby branching stalks, 

 eight or ten feet high in good ground, but generally five or six; 



