GARDEN BOTANY. 



3. sorbifolia, with pinnate leaves, oblong-lanceolate and acuminate 

 sharply serrate leaflets, and a large panicle of white flowers. 

 * * Herbs, perennial. 



S. Ulmaria, ENGLISH MEADOW-SWEET. Leaves pinnate with a large 

 3-lobed leaflet at the end, and smaller lateral ones, also minute ones inter- 

 mixed, whitish-downy underneath ; flowers yellowish-white in a compound 

 cyme, sometimes double. 



S. Filipendula, DROPWORT. Root fibrous, some of them swollen 

 below ; leaves mostly radical, smooth and green both sides, with very many 

 small pinnatifid or cut leaflets ; flowers fewer and larger than in the last, whito 

 often tipped with reddish ; both single and double-flowered. 



, Potentilla, CINQUEFOIL. Man. p. 118. The three following red-f.ow- 

 ered, perennial, digitate-leaved species are rather common in gardens, where 

 they are much crossed and mixed. The first is from the Mexican, the two 

 others from the Himalajan Mountains. 



P. hema'tochrus. Silky or velvety; leaflets 7 or 5 on the lower, 5 and 

 3 on the upper leaves ; flowers deep red or crimson. 



P. Nepalensis. Leaflets green both sides, 5 or only 3 in the upper 

 leaves ; flowers rose-red. 



P. atrosanguinea. Leaflets white-downy underneath, 3 in all the 

 leaves ; flowers dark purple-crimson or brown-red. 



P. recta : a coarse, hirsute, erect, yellow-flowered species ; leaflets 5 or 

 7, digitate, narrowly cuneate-oblong, coarsely toothed. 



. Fragaria, STRAWBERRY. Man. p. 119. The originals of the cultivated 

 varieties are mainly these : 



F. vesca yields the ALPINE STRAWBERRY, the PERPETUAL, &c., with 

 small, verv fragrant fruit. 



F. elatior of Europe, the HAUTBOIS, a taller plant, with calyx strongly 

 reflexed away from the fruit, which is deep red with a peculiar musky odor. 



F. Virginiana, the parent of the AMERICAN SCARLET, and similar 

 sorts; and its crosses with the next have given origin to the PINE-APPLE, and 

 the greater part of the large sorts now cultivated.. 



F. Chilensis, with thick leaves very silky underneath, and the large 

 fruit erect in ripening (instead of hanging as in the rest), is the parent of the 

 QUEEN VICTORIA and WILMOT varieties, &c. 



F. Indica has creeping leafy stems, yellow flowers, and tasteless fruit. 



Rubus Idseus, the GARDEN RASPBERRY, is very much like our wild 

 Red R. (Man. p. 121), but is taller, larger-leaved, the prickles hooked, and 

 the fruit larger and firmer, pale red, amber-colored, &c. 



. Rosa, ROSE. Man. p. 122. Besides the SWEET-BRIER, and the varie- 

 ties of our wild PRAIRIE ROSE (already described), the common cultivated 

 Roses come from the following. But many of them, especially the tender 

 ones, are so mixed and altered by long cultivation, that it is difficult, if not 

 impossible, for the student to refer them to their true types. 



* Styles not projecting out of the calyx-cup nor cohering. 



R. Cinnamomea, CINNAMON ROSE. Tall, 5 to 8 high, with brownish- 

 red bark, and some straightish prickles, pale leaves downy underneath, and 

 small pale-red cinnamon-scented (double) flowers, not showy. 



R. spinosissima, BURNET or SCOTCH ROSE. Low, 1 or 2 high, 

 exceedingly prickly with straight prickles, with 7 to 9 small and roundish 

 smooth leaflets, and small early flowers, single, double, and white, pink, and 

 even yellow. 



