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S. prunif61ia, from Japan : slender shrub, with small orate finely and 

 sharply serrate leaves, smooth above, often minutely downy beneath ; the form 

 cultivated has full-double pure white blossoms, ' in diameter, produced in great 

 abundance. 



2. Shrubby, with pinnate leaves. 



S. sorbifdlia. Cult, from Siberia, very hardy, 3 -4 high, with leaves 

 (as the name denotes) resembling those of the Mountain-Ash, of 17-21 lan- 

 ceolate taper-pointed doubly and sharply serrate leaflets, and white flowers in 

 an ample terminal panicle, the narrow pods a little cohering. 



3. Herbs, with thrice pinnately-conifiound leaves, no stipules, and dioecious flowers. 



S. Ariincus, GOATSBEARD. Rich woods from New York S. & W., also 

 in some gardens : smooth, 3 - 5 high ; with lance-oblong or lance-ovate taper- 

 pointed leaflets sharply serrate and cut, and yellowish-white very small flowers 

 in great numbers, crowded in slender spikes which are collected in a great com- 

 pound panicle ; petals narrow ; pedicels reflexed in fruit. 



4. Herbs, ivith interruptedly pinnate leares, conspicuous stipules, perfect flowers, 

 reflexed sepals and petals sometimes 4, and 5-12 little 1 - 3-seeded pods. 



S. Filipendula, DROPWORT. Cult, from Europe : some of the coarse 

 long fibrous roots swollen at the lower end into oblong tubers ; herbage smooth 

 and green ; leaves chiefly from or near the ground, with many oval or lanceolate 

 leaflets deeply toothed, cut, or pinnately cleft, and gradually diminishing in size 

 downwards ; the nearly naked stems l-2 high, bearing a compound terminal 

 cyme of white or rosy-tipped flowers, one variety full-double. 



S. Ulmaria, ENGLISH MEADOW-SWEET. Cult, from Europe; l-3 

 high, nearly smooth, except the lower surface of the lyrate and interruptedly 

 pinnate leaves which is minutely white-downy ; the yellowish-white small and 

 sweet-scented flowers very numerous and crowded in a compound cyme at the 

 naked summit of the stems; little pods twisting spirally. 



S. lobata, QUEEN-OF-THE-PRAIRIE. Wild in meadows and prairies W., 

 also cult. : smooth and green ; the leaves mostly from or near the ground ; the 

 end leaflet very large, 7 - 9-parted, and its lobes cut-toothed ; stems 2 - 5 or 

 even 8 high, bearing an ample and panicled compound cyme crowded with the 

 handsome peach-blossom-colorcd flowers. Bruised foliage exhales the odor of 

 Sweet Birch. 



3. GILLENIA, INDIAN PHYSIC, AMERICAN IPECAC. (Named 

 for a Dr. Gillen or Gilienius.) Fl. summer. 2/ 



G. trifoliata, COMMON I. or BOWMAN'S-ROOT. Rich woods, from New 

 York S. W. ; smooth, branching, 2 high, with the 3 ovate-oblong pointed 

 leaflets cut-toothed, entire stipules small and slender, and rather pretty white or 

 scarcely rosy-tinged flowers loosely panicled on the slender branches. 



G. stipulacea, LARGE-STIPULED I. or AMERICAN IPECAC. Open woods, 

 W. : has the lanceolate leaflets and leaf-like stipules deeply cut and toothed : 

 otherwise like the other. 



4. KERB! A. (Named for Bel/enden Ker, a British botanist.) 



K. Jap6nica, CORCHORCS, so-called, of the gardens, from Japan : a fa- 

 miliar, smooth, ornamental shrubby plant, 4 -8 high, with lance-ovate thin 

 leaves, and handsome yellow flowers, in summer, usually full-double; the 

 natural state, with 5 petals and numerous stamens only recently introduced 

 and rare. 



5. WALDSTEINIA. (Named for F. von Waldstein, an Austrian bota- 

 nist.) 



W. fragarioides, BARREN STRAWBERRY. Woodcd^banks, chiefly N. ; 

 in aspect and especially in the 3 broadly wedge-shaped leaflets resembles a 

 Strawberry-plant (as the specific and the popular names denote), but is smooth- 

 ish and yellow-flowered : in summer. 



