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they are covered with a loose brown bark which falls off: the leaves 

 about the size and shape of those of the common currant bush, 

 ending in acute points, and serrate on their edges: the flowers are 

 produced in roundisli bunches at the end of the branches; are white 

 with some spots of a pale red. It is a native of Canada and Virginia. 

 It is commonly known in the nurseries by the name of Virginian 

 Gelder Rose. 



The ninth rises with shrubby stalks like the first, but sends out 

 horizontal branches, which are slender, and covered with a brown 

 bark: the leaves are of a thin texture, and a bright green colour on 

 both sides, slightly and acutely serrate: the flowers in terminating 

 panicles, small and white. It is a native of Siberia, flowering in 

 Angust. 



The tenth species has a perennial root: the stem annual, from 

 three to four feet high: the leaves doubly pinnate; each having three 

 or four pairs of oblong leaflets terminated by an odd one: they are 

 two inches long, and almost an inch broad, serrate, and ending in 

 acute points: the flowers disposed in long slender spikes, formed 

 into loose terminating panicles; they are small, white, and of two 

 sexes in the same spike. It is a native of Germany, flowering in 

 June and July. 



The eleventh has a perennial root, consisting of oval tubers or 

 solid lumps, hanging from the main body by threads, which has 

 given occasion to its common names, Filipendula and Dropwort. 

 These tubers enable the herb to resist drought, and render it very 

 difficult to be eradicated: the stem is erect, from a foot to a foot 

 and half in height, angular, smooth, leafy, a little branched at top: 

 the leaves alternate, interruptedly pinnate, serrate, and jagged, 

 smooth, composed of several pairs of leaflets, all of each set uniform 

 or nearly corresponding in size; the terminating leaflet three-lobed: 

 a pair of roundish united indented stipules at the base of each leaf, 

 embracing the stem: the flowers many in a cymose loose erect 

 panicle, cream-coloured often tipped with red, or red on the outside. 

 It is an elegant plant, which in gardens grows very luxuriant, and 

 has often double flowers. It flowers early in July. 



