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not of Waldst. et Kit., according to Willd. Enum., 541. ;. 8. car- 
pinifolia Willd, Enum., p. 540., and Don’s Mill., ii. p. 520., Wats. 
Dend, Brit., t. 66.; and our fig. 441.—Leayes ovate-oblong. Petals 
white. Bark of branches rather reddish. 
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% S.s. 5 grandiflora. S. grandiflora Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1988., and our 
Jig. 442., has its pink flowers nearly twice as large as those of the 
species ; andisa very ornamental free-growing shrub. It was raised 
by Messrs. Loddiges from seeds sent to them from Kamtschatka 
in 1826, by M. Busch. ; 
Description, §c. 8S. salicifolia, according to Pallas, grows as 443 
high as 6 ft., in favourable situations, in Russia and Siberia; 
but in England it is seldom found higher than 4 ft. It 
sends up numerous straight rod-like stems, and these and 
the lateral branches terminate in large, conical, spiked 
panicles, of pale red, or flesh-coloured, flowers. In deep 
moist soils, a sucker will attain the height of 4ft. in one 
season, and flower. These suckers are produced in such 
abundance, that, in order to keep the shrub in a vigorous 
state, they ought to be cut down when they have flowered 
two years, in the same manner as is practised with raspberries ; 
and the entire plant ought also to be taken up every three 
or four years, and separated; otherwise the old shoots are 
apt to die, and render the bush unsightly. It has been in 
cultivation in England since 1665; but whether it was in- 
troduced from some other country, or from localities where 
it is said to be found wild, is uncertain. According to Dr, 
Hooker and G. Don, it is wild in several parts of Scotland. 
Sir J. E. Smith believes it to be wild at Hafod, in Cardigan- 
shire; the situation in which it grows there being ‘perfectly like its native 
swamps in the south of Europe. It is one of the hardiest of garden shrubs 
and is, also, very beautiful, from its long spicate panicles full A 
of light feathery looking flowers. It will grow with more or 
less luxuriance, according to the degree of richness, and 
moisture of the soil. 
% 20. S.romEeNTo’sA L. The downy Spirea. 
Identification. as Sp., 701.; Camb. Monog.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 544.; Don’s 
hetaveuk, Pluk. Phyt., t. 321. f. 5.; Schmidt Arb., 1. t.51.; and our fig. 444. 
Spec. Char., §c. Nearly all the parts of this plant are more 
or less clothed with tomentum, the under surface of the 
leaves most so. The tomentum upon the stem and pe- 
duncles, and perhaps elsewhere, is of a reddish colour. 
The leaves are ovate and serrated, the latter partly doubly & 
so. Lobes of the calyx triangular and deflexed. Carpels 
divaricate. A native of Canada, and of mountainous 
situations in the west of North America. (Dec. Prod., ii. 



