126 ’ ENGLISH BOTANY. 
flowers arranged on them in’very short dense racemes. Calyx- 
segments deltoid, reflexed. Carpels 5, glabrous. 
In moist woods and thickets, and by the sides of streams. 
Rare, and probably not native, though occurring in many of 
the northern counties of England, and still more frequently in 
Scotland. 
(England, Scotland.] Shrub. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
A bushy shrub with slender branches, clothed with smooth 
reddish-brown bark. Leaves 2 to 3 inches long, on petioles about 
1 inch long; margins sometimes simply serrated, sometimes un- 
equally or doubly so, with the teeth generally acute, tipped by a 
callous point. Panicles terminating the branches, 2 to 5 inches 
long. Flowers 2 inch across, pink or nearly white {in the white 
variety the lateral branches of the panicle are usually more elon- 
gated, and the leaves doubly serrated]. Calyx-segments about as 
long as the cup-like tube, deltoid-ovate, ciliated, with short curled 
hairs. Leaves bright-green, nearly glabrous, those at the base of 
the branches of the panicle, bracts, axis of the inflorescence, and 
peduncles more or less woolly. 
Willow-leaved Spirea. 
French, Spirée & Fewilles de Saule. German, Heidenblattriger Spierstawde. 
This species has long been cultivated in gardens and shrubberies under the name 
of Spirea frutex. 
Section II.—ULMARIA. Jonch. 
Herbs with interruptedly - pinnate stipulate leaves. Flowers 
perfect, in paniculate or corymbose cymes. Ovaries free at the 
base, containing about 2 pendulous ovules. Disk obsolete. Fol- 
licles not inflated, straight or contorted. 
SPECIES I1-—SPIRAA ULMARIA. Zinn. 
Prats CCCCXY. 
Herbaceous. Root-fibres not enlarged. Leaves pinnate, with 
5 to 9 pairs of unequal leaflets; larger leaflets ovate, acute, doubly 
serrate, or slightly lobed and serrate, the alternate ones very small, 
roundish, inciso-dentate, the terminal one larger than all the others, 
3-cleft, all pubescent, and usually hoary tomentose beneath.  Sti- 
pules of the radical leaves with an elongated acute free apex, those 
of the stem-leaves half-ovate, cordate, sbatnaly dentate. Flowers in 
« compound corymbose cyme, with the lower branches erect, much 
