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S. prunif6Iia, from Japan : slender shrub, with small ovate finely and 

 sharply serrate leaves, smooth above, often minutely downy beneath ; the form 

 cultivated has full-double pure white blossoms, i' in diameter, produced in great 

 abundance. 



§ 2. Shrubby, with pinnate leaves. 



S. SOrbif6Iia. Cult, from Siberia, very hardy, 3° -4° high, with leaves 

 (as the name denotes) resembling those of the Mountain-Ash, of 17-21 lan- 

 ceolate taper-))ointed doubly and sharply serrate leaflets, and white flowers in 

 an ample terminal panicle, the narrow pods a little cohering. 



§ 3. Herbs, with thrice pinnately-com/iound leaves, no stipules, and dioecious flowers. 



S. Ariincus, Goatsbeard. Rich woods from New York S. & W., also 

 in some gardens : smooth, 3° - .5° high ; with lance-oblong or lance-ovate taper- 

 pointed leaflets sharply serrate and cut, and yellowish-white very small flowers 

 in great numbers, crowded in slender spikes which are collected in a great com- 

 pound panicle ; petals narrow ; pedicels reflexed in fruit. 



§ 4. Herbs, with interruptedlij pinnate leares, conspicuous stipules, perfect flowers, 

 reflexed sepals and petak sometimes 4, and 5-12 little 1 - 3-seeded pods. 



S. Filip6ndula, Dkopwort. Cult, from Europe : some of the coarse 

 long fibrous roots swollen at tlie lower end into ol)!ong tubers ; herbage smooth 

 and green ; leaves chiefly from or near the ground, with many oval or lanceolate 

 leaflets deeply toothed, cut, or pinnately cleft, and gradually diminishing in size 

 downwards ; the nearly naked stems 1° - 2° high, bearing a compound terminal 

 cyme of white or rosy-tipped flowers, one variety full-double. 



S. Ulmaria, English Meadow-Sweet. Cult, from Europe; l°-30 

 high, nearly smooth, except tlie lower surface of the lyrate and interruptedly 

 pinnate leaves which is minutely white-downy ; the yellowish-white small and 

 sweet-scented flowers very numerous and crowded in a compound cyme at the 

 naked summit of the stems ; little pods twisting spirally. 



S. lob^ta, Queen-of-the-Prairie. Wild in meadows and prairies W., 

 also cult. : smooth and green ; the leaves mostly from or near the ground ; the 

 end leaflet very large, 7 - 9-parted, and its lobes cut-toothed ; stems 2° - .5° or 

 even 8° high, bearing an ample and panicled comjiound cyme crowded with the 

 handsome peach-blossom-colored flowers. Bruised foliage exhales the odor of 

 Sweet Birch. 



3. GILLENIA, INDIAN PHYSIC, AMERICAN IPECAC. (Named 

 .for a. Dr. (Jillen or Gillenius.) Fl. summer. '21 



G. trifoliata, Common I. or Bowman's-Root. Rich woods, from New 

 York S. & W. ; smooth, branching, 2° high, Avith the 3 ovate-oblong pointed 

 leaflets cut-tootlicd, entire stipules small and slender, and rather pretty white or 

 scarcely rosy-tinged flowers loosely panicled on the slender branches. 



G. stipul^cea, Large-stipuled I. or American Ipecac. Open woods, 

 W. : has the lanceolate leaflets and leaf-like stipules deeply cut and toothed : 

 otherwise like the other. 



4. KERRIA. (Named for 5e//en*n JTer, a British botanist.) 



K. Japonica, Corchorus, so-called, of the gardens, from Japan : a fa- 

 miliar, smooth, ornamental shrubby plant, 4° - 8° high, with lance-ovate thin 

 leaves, and handsome yellow flowers, in summer, usually full-double ; — the 

 natural state, with 5 petals and numerous stamens only recently introduced 

 and rare. 



5. WALDSTEINIA. (Named for F. von Waldstein, an Austrian bota- 

 nist.) 



W. fragarioides, Barren Strawberry. Wooded banks, chiefly N. ; 

 in aspect and especially in the 3 broadly wedge-sha])cd leaflets resembles a 

 Strawberry-])lant (as the specific and the popular names denote), but is smooth- 

 ish and yellow-flowered : in summer. ^ 



