410 SORGHUM, SYRINGA, 



3. Racemes erect. 



bi'-colour (white golden-rod. O. w. Au. 4), stem hairy ; leaves oval, hairy ; lower 



ones serrate ; those on the flower branches entire, numerous, and small ; 



scales of the calyx obtuse. Racemes are short and compact ; rays white, 



somewhat numerous and shortish ; disk florets rather numerous. 24 f. -S. 



32. SORGHUM. 4. 10. 



Exotic. 



tacchara'tum (broom-corn, y-g. Au. ), panicle somewhat whorled, spreading ; 

 seeds oval ; glumes covered with permanent softish hairs ; leaves linear. 

 From the East Indies. 68 f. 



105. SPERGULA. 22. 82. 



arven"sis (spurry. w. Ju. @), leaves whorled : panicles dichotoraous ; pedun- 

 cles of the fruit becoming reflexed. 6 10 i. S. 



205. SPINACIA. 12. 28. 



Exotic. 



olera'cea (spinach. J. ), fruit sessile, prickly or unarmed ; leaves hastate-sagit- 

 tate ; stem branched. In habit resembles the Chenopodium album. 1 2 f. 

 115. SPIRAEA. 36. 92. 



Stem more or less woody. 



xdiciff/lia (meadow sweet, willow hard-hack. O r. w. J. >), leaves lanco- 

 ovate or obovate, serrate, glabrous ; flowers in panicled spreading racemes. 

 Var. '//'", has white petals, and generally the twigs are reddish. The small 

 branches are generally killed by frost in the winter, as also of the next 

 species. 24 f. S. 



tomt'tUo'sa (steeple bush, purple hard-hack, meadow-sweet. O. r. Ju. > ), leaves 

 lanceolate, unequally serrate, downy beneath : racemes in a crowded, sub- 

 panicled, spike. 2 3f. S. 



kgperictf&ba (John's wort, hard-hack, w. M. > ), leaves obovate, entire or tooth- 

 ed at the apex ; umbels sessile. Cultivated. 3 f. 



opulifo'lia (nine-bark, snow-ball, hard-hack. E. w. J. >), leaves sub-ovate, 

 lobed, douHy toothed or crenate, glabrous ; corymbs terminal, crowded ; 

 capsules inflated ; flowers trigynious. Wet. 3 5 f. S. 



Exotic. 



nbna'ria (queen of the meadow, w. Au. 4), leaves pinnate, downy beneath ; 

 the terminal leafets larger, 3 lobed ; the lateral ones undivided : flowers in 

 a proliferous corymb. Stem herbaceous. 



13-1. STACHYS. 42. 39. 



as"pera (hedge nettle, clown heal. O. w-p. Ju. 4), stem erect, hispid backwards ; 

 leaves sub-petioled, lanceolate, acutely serrate, very glabrous ; whorls about 

 6 flowered : calyx with spreading spines. Var. tenuifolia, leaves very thin 

 and slender. 



53. STAPHYLEA. 23. 95. 



trifolia (bladder nut. E. y-w. M. ^ ), leaves in threes ; racemes pendant ; petals 

 ciliate below. When in flower, if the germ be cut transversely and examin- 

 ed, it will appear 2 or 3 celled, and will contain the rudiments of 15 to 20 

 seeds. But when the fruit is ripe, it consists of 2 or 3 inflated, adnate, sub- 

 membranous capsules, each containing 1 to 3 hard small nuts. 6 12 f. S. 



1610. STROPHOSTYLES. 32. 93. 

 angulo'sa (E. p. Au. ), leaves ternate ; leafets angular, 2-3 lobed ; ped uncles 



longer than the leaves : flowers capitate. <S. 



hel"vola (r.), prostrate, sometimes twining; leaves temate, deltoid-oblong; 

 flowers capitate ; banner short ; wings large, expanded. /S. 

 51. SYMPHITUM. 41. 42. 



Exotic. 



qffi<ina'le fcomfrey. y-w. J. 4), leaves ovate sub-lanceolate, decurrent, rugose. 

 Naturalized. 2 4 f . 



21. SYRINGA. 48. 37. 



wdga'ris (lilac, b-p. w. M. > ), leaves cordate ; flowers in a thyrse. 

 per"sica (persian lilac, b. M. , leaves lanceolate, entire and pinna tifid. 



