CL. XII.] ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 217 



2. S. Filipendula. Common Dropicort. Leaves interruptedly pin- 

 nate, leaflets uniform, serrate; flowers cymose; stem herbaceous. 



Root woody, with hard elliptical knobs: stem about a foot high, round, 

 smooth, panicled at the top : leaves chiefly radical, spreading : panicle 

 forked, with cream-coloured flowers, tinged with red externally. Peren- 

 nial : flowers in July: grows in open pastures. Eng. Bot. vol. iv. 

 pi. 284. Eng. Ft. vol. ii. p. 369. 745. 



3. S. Ulmdria. Meadnw-siveet. Leaves interruptedly pinnate, downy 

 beneath, the terminal leaflet largest, and lobed ; stem herbaceous, flowers 



cymose. Root fibrous : stems from two to four feet high, angular, 



branched : flowers very numerous, cream-coloured, sweet-scented, in 

 dense compound panicles. The whole plant is astringent ; a decoction 

 of it with copperas is used in the Hebrides for dyeing black. Perennial : 

 flowers in June and July : grows in meadows, and about the edges of 

 rivers and ditches. Eng. Bot. vol. xiv. pi. 960. Eng. FL vol. ii. p. 369. 



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POLYGYNIA. 



5. RO'SA. ROSE. 



Calyx of one leaf, inferior, with a pitcher-shaped tube, con- 

 tracted at the summit, permanent, and finally succulent, the limb 

 deeply divided into five deep, lance-shaped, pointed segments, 

 either all simple, or two of them with leafy appendages on both 

 sides, one with appendages on one side only, and the other two 

 naked on both sides. Petals five, inversely heart-shaped. Filaments 

 thread-like, numerous, much shorter than the petals; anthers 

 roundish, flattened, two-lobed. Germens numerous, oblong, 

 lining the tube of the calyx, interspersed with silky hairs. Styles, 

 one to each germen, lateral ; stigmas obtuse. Fruit globular or 

 egg-shaped, formed of the permanent, pulpy, coloured tube of the 

 calyx, closed at the top. Seeds numerous, bristly, lining the 

 calyx, and interspersed with hairs. Named from the Celtic 

 rhos. 250. 



* Branches covered with bristles. Prickles slender, nearly straight. 



1. R. Dickst'mi. Dickson's llcse. Fruit egg-shaped ; flower-stalks 

 bristly, enlarged at their upper part ; prickles of the stem scattered ; 

 leaflets oval, grey on both sides with fine hairs, their serratures mostly 

 simple. Stem erect, with spreading flexuous branches, dark-red tinged 

 with grey: leaflets five or seven: petals shorter than the calyx, deep 

 pink. Flowers in June : discovered in Ireland by Mr. J. Drummonrl. 

 Eng. Bot. Suppl. pi. 2707. Brit. Ft. 4th ed. p. 198. 747. 



2. R. cinnamumea. Cinnamon Ruse. Fruit egg-shaped or globular, 

 smooth ; flower-stalks smooth ; prickles of the stem very unequal, nume- 

 rous, horizontal, awl-shaped; leaflets oblong, simply serrate. Stem four 



or five feet high, with deep-red bark, and slender horizontal or deflected 

 prickles : stipules oblong, pointed, fringed with gland? : leaflets greyish 

 green, downy, without glands : petals broad, concave, purplish-red: fruit 

 deep-red. Flowers in May, and through the summer : grows at Birk- 



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