148 ROSE FAMILY. 



S. toment6sa, Linn. Hardhack or Steeple Bdsh. Common in low 



grounds ; 2"-;3° higli ; hoary-downy, except the upper face of the ovate or 

 oblong, serrate, small leaves ; the rose-purple or white flowers crowded in 

 a very dense terminal panicle ; pistils downy. 



S. salicifdlia, Linn. Common Meadowsweet. Common in wet 

 grounds, also in old gardens ; shrub 2°-3° high, bushy, smooth, with 

 wedge-lanceolate or oblong leaves, simply or doubly serrate, and white 

 or barely flesh-colored flowers in a crowded panicle. 



* * Cultivated for ornament, exotic or W. North American, 



*~ Flowers i7i close or spike-like clusters collected in a close and narrow or 

 spike-like terminal panicle, pink-purple. 



S- DouglAsii, Hook. Douglas's Meadowsweet. Cult, from Ore. 

 and Cal.; resembles our wild Hardhack (S. tomentosa), but has longer, 

 usually lance-oblong and very blunt leaves, rather whiter beneath, and 

 deeper \}\\\k flowers with smooth pistils. S. NobleXna is a form of this, 

 with smoother leaves and broader clusters. 



H- -I- Flowers in compound corymbs or broad panicles. 



S. Japdnica, Linn. (Known also as S. call^sa and S. FoRTfjNEi). 

 From Japan and China ; shrub 3°-6° high, smoothish, with lance-oblong 

 dnd taper-pointed, unequally and very sharply serrate leaves ; branches 

 terminated by clustered, pubescent, dense corymbs or cymes of deep pink 

 flowers ; 10 glands at the mouth of the calyx ; the pistils smooth. 

 Common. S. panicdlXta of gardens is a form with more panicled 

 inflorescence. 



S. discolor, Pursh., var. aricefblia, Wats. Tall shrub from Ore., 

 with slender branches, terminated by a very large and light or drooping 

 decompound panicle of small, yellowish-white flowers ; the leaves round- 

 ish-ovate, very obtuse, thin, cut on each side into 4 or 5 blunt and toothed 

 lobes, sometimes almost pinnatifid, soft-downy, at least beneath. 



H- 4- ^_ Flowers in simple, often umbel-like corymbs terminating leafy 

 shoots of the season ; natives of Europe and Asia ; petals white {except 

 the first species.) 



S. be/la, Sims, from Nepal ; a low shrub, with ovate, acute and merely 

 sharply serrate leaves, whitish-downy beneath, the simple corymbs some- 

 times clustered, and rose-pink flowers. 



S. rotundifblia, Lindl., from India, has roundish obovate small leaves, 

 which are entire below and sparingly toothed on the broad, obtuse sum- 

 mit, and flowers in compact clusters. 



S. chamoedrifdiia, Linn., from E. Eu. and Siberia; a spreading low 

 bush, smooth, with ovate or oblong, usually blunt and cut-toothed leaves, 

 at least towards the summit, and rather small flowers in simple corymbs. 

 S. oiiLONGiF^LiA is a form with narrower leaves. 



S. ulmi folia. Scop., from Siberia, is very like the last, but distinguished 

 by the ovate-lanceolate leaves which are more (u* less ciliate on the 

 edges. 



S. trilobata. Linn, (or S. TRf loba of gardens) , from Siberia ; a spread- 

 ing smooth bush, with rounded crenately cut and 3-lobed leaves and 

 rather showy flowers. S. Vax IIouttei is an improved form of this, with 

 larger stature and more profuse bloom. 



S. crataegifolia. Link. Leaves ovate and pointed, toothed and cut, 

 scarcely lobed ; flowers in small stalked umbels ; hardy and showy. 

 Native country unknown. 



S. Cantoniensis, lA)ur., (known also as S. lanceolXta and S. Reeves- 

 iana), from China, has oblong, lance-oblong, or some three-cleft serrate- 

 toothed leaves, and showy flowers. 



