SPIR.EA 



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S. L.KYK'.ATA, Linnceus. 



(Sibiraea loevigata, Maximowicz?) 



A deciduous shrub of sturdy, bushy habit, 2 to 5 ft. high, with thickish, 

 rather sparse, perfectly smooth, brown branchlets. Leaves entire, narrowly 

 obovate; 2 to 4^ ins. long, \ to in, wide; stalkless, tapering at the base, 

 the apex with a short abrupt point ; glaucous green and quite smooth. 

 Flowers white, produced from late April to early June in terminal spread- 

 ing compound panicles 3 to 5 ins. high. 



SPIRAEA L^VIOATA. 



Native of Siberia; introduced to Britain in 1774. This species, whilst 

 not particularly showy, is quite distinct from all other Spiraeas in its foliage, 

 which in shape and colour is more suggestive of a spurge (Euphorbia) than 

 the genus to which it belongs. Shrubs 4 ft. hu?h are often as much as 7 ft. 

 through. 



S. LlNDLEYANA, Wallich. 

 (Sorbaria Lindleyana, Maximowicz.) 



A shrub of graceful spreading habit, up to 20 ft. high; branches very 

 pithy, green, smooth. Leaves 10 to 18 ins. long, pinnate, consisting of 

 eleven to twenty-three leaflets, which are lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; 

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