308 Herbaceous plants. 



THE ROSE FAMILY. 



Meadow-Sweet, Spiraea Ulmaria. One of the most at- 

 tractive riverside plants of Europe. It forms broad masses 

 of rather rough, pinnate foliage. The yellowish, or creamy- 

 white flowers are borne in ample compound cymes on leafy 

 stems about two feet high. A fine plant for growing on 

 high river-banks or in the rockery. The dropwort (S.fili- 

 pendula) is a smaller plant with tufted, pinnately cleft 

 leaves. The stems are nearly leafless, one or two feet high 

 Flowers white or slightly rose-colored, in compound ter- 

 minal cymes. Fine for masses in rockeries in sunny posi- 

 tions ; the most delicate and beautiful of all the smaller 

 forms. Queen of the Prairie (S. lobatd). An American 

 meadow plant of great beauty. Leaves pinnately parted 

 with a deeply cut terminal leaflet. Flowers of the color of 

 peach blossoms, in large panicled cymes on stems from, two 

 to eight feet high. Moist places in a rockery ; shores of 

 rivers and lakes. S. palmata, a Japanese species, is equally 

 desirable. It has palmate leaves and corymbose panicles 

 of bright crimson-colored flowers. 



Goat's-Beard (S. Aruncus). This is a very tall and ro- 

 bust plant with ample pinnately-compound leaves and num- 

 erous whitish spicate flowers in compound panicles. Fine 

 for the same purpose as the previous kinds. It may also be 

 planted in shrubberies and as a specimen plant on the 

 lawn. 



Bowman's Root, Gillenia trifoliata. A tall and slender 

 perennial with trifoliate leaves and loose panicles of white 

 or pale rose-colored flowers. This, as well as all the 

 meadow-sweets, requires rich soil. 



