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S. prunif61ia, from Japan . slender shrub, with small ovate 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 />innately-cotn/>ound leaves, no stipules, and dioecious flowers. 



S. Aruncus, GOATSBEARW. Rich woods from New York S. & W., also 

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

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

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

 pound panicle ; petals narrow ; pedicels reflexcd in fruit. 



4. Herbs, witk interruptedly pinnate lea-es, conspicuous stipules, perfect flowers, 

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



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 pinnatcly 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-colored flowers. Bruised foliage exhales the odor of 

 Sweet Birch. 



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

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



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

 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 : 

 therwise like the other. 



4. KERBIA. (Named for Bellenden Ker, a British botanist.) 



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

 miliar, smooth, ornament.il 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. Wooded 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. 1J 



