148 ROSE FAMILY. 



S. toment6sa, Linn. HARDHACK or STEEPLE BUSH. Common in low 



grounds ; 2-3 high ; hoary-downy, except the upper face of the ovate or 

 oblong, serrate, small leaves; the rose-purple or white flowers crowded in 

 a very dense terminal panicle ; pistils downy. 



S. salicif6lia, Linn. COMMON MEADOWSWEET. Common in wet 

 grounds, also in old gardens ; shrub 2-3 high, bushy, smooth, with 

 wedge-lanceolate or oblong leaves, simply or doubly serrate, and white 

 or barely flesh-colored flowers in a crowded panicle. 



* * Cultivated for ornament, exotic or W. North American. 



*- Flowers in close or spike-like clusters collected in a close and narrow or 

 spike-like terminal panicle, pink-purple. 



S. Dougldsii, Hook. DOUGLAS'S MEADOWSWEET. Cult, from Ore. 

 and Cal.; resembles our wild Hardback (S. tomcntosa), but has longer, 

 usually lance-oblong and very blunt leaves, rather whiter beneath, and 

 deeper pink flowers with smooth pistils. S. NOBLEANA is a form of this, 

 with smoother leaves and broader clusters. 



i- -- Flowers in compound corymbs or broad panicles. 



S. Japdnica, Linn. (Known also as S. CALLOSA and S. FORTIJNEI). 

 From Japan and China ; shrub 3-6 high, smoothish, with lance-oblong 

 and taper-pointed, unequally and very sharply serrate leaves ; branches 

 terminated by clustered, pubescent, dense corymbs or cymes of deep pink 

 flowers ; 10 glands at the mouth of the calyx ; the pistils smooth. 

 Common. S. PANICULATA of gardens is a form with more panicled 

 inflorescence. 



S. discolor, Pursh. , var. aritefblia, Wats. Tall shrub from Ore., 

 with slender branches, terminated by a very large and light or drooping 

 decompound panicle of small, yellowish-white flowers ; the leaves round- 

 ish-ovate, very obtuse, thin, cut on each side into 4 or 5 blunt and toothed 

 lobes, sometimes almost pinnatiiid, soft-downy, at least beneath. 



*--(- Flowers in simple, often umbel-like corymbs terminating leafy 

 shoots of the season, natives of Europe and Asia; petals white\except 

 the first species.} 



S. bella, Sims, from Nepal ; a low shrub, with ovate, acute and merely 

 sharply serrate leaves, whitish-downy beneath, the simple corymbs some- 

 times clustered, and rose-pink flowers. 



S. rotundifolia, Lindl. , from India, has roundish obovate small leaves, 

 which are entire below and sparingly toothed on the broad, obtuse sum- 

 mit, and flowers in compact clusters. 



S. chamcedrifblia, Linn., from E. Eu. and Siberia; a spreading low 

 bush, smooth, with ovate or oblong, usually blunt and cut-toothed leaves, 

 at least towards the summit, and rather small flowers in simple corymbs. 

 S. OBLONGiFdLiA is a form with narrower leaves. 



S. ulmi folia, Scop., from Siberia, is very like the last, but distinguished 

 by the ovate-lanceolate leaves which are more or less ciliate on the 

 edges. 



S. trilobata, Linn, (or S. TR^LOBA of gardens), from Siberia; a spread- 

 ing smooth bush, with rounded crenately cut and 3-lobed leaves and 

 rather showy flowers. S. VAN HOUTTEI is an improved form of this, with 

 larger stature and more profuse bloom. 



S. cratcegifdl/a, Link. Leaves ovate and pointed, toothed and cut, 

 scarcely lobed ; flowers in small stalked umbels ; hardy and showy. 

 Native country unknown. 



S. Cantoniensis, Lour., (known also as S. LANCEOL\TA and S. EEEVES- 

 IANA), from China, has oblong, lance-oblong, or some three-cleft serrate- 

 toothed leaves, and showy flowers. 



