128 ROSE FAMILY 



Var. intermedins (Rydberg) Robinson 1908 



Follicles permanently pubescent, otherwise like the species. Growing 

 in similar situations; the common form throughout the state, and some- 

 times planted as an ornamental shrub. Distributed from Mich, to S. Dak., 

 Ark. and Ala. 



Spiraea L i 11 n e 1753 Spiraea 



(Gr. spiraea, meadowsweet, perhaps originally from the twisted 



pods) 



Shrubs with alternate, simple, toothed or lobed leaves; flowers small. 

 white to rose or pink, in corymbs or panicles; calyx 5-cleft, persistent, 

 bell-shaped; petals 5, borne on the calyx-tube; stamens 20-50, also in- 

 serted on the calyx-tube; carpels 5-8, in fruit forming follicles, with 

 few to several seeds. 



