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and of a bright green colour. In rich moist 

 ground the stalks rise five or six feet high, but 

 in moilerate land from three to four; as their 

 whole height is one year's growth from the 

 root : they are terminated by spikes of pale red 

 or flesh-coloured flowers. It flowers in June 

 and July ; and in moist seasons there are fre- 

 quently young shoots from the root which 

 flower in autunm. It is a native of Siberia. 



There are several varieties : as the Flesh-co- 

 loured Willow-leaved, the Alpine Willow- 

 leaved,, the Panicled Willow-leaved, and the 

 Broad Willow-leaved Spiraea. 



The second species has the stalks slender, and 

 branching out near the ground, with a purple 

 bark covered with a gray mealy down: the leaves 

 smaller than those of the first, downy and veined 

 on their under sixle, but of a bright green above : 

 the branches terminated by a thick raceme of 

 flowers, branched towards the bottom into small 

 spikes : the flowers very small, of a beautiful 

 red colour, appearing in July, August, and Sep- 

 tember. It is a native of Pensylvania. 



The third rises with several slender shrubby 

 stalks five or six feet high, covered with a dark 

 brown bark, sending oat small side branches 

 the whole length : the leaves small, wedge- 

 shaped, having many punctures on their surface : 

 the flowers in small sessile umbels, each vn a 

 long slender pedicel, and white : they appear in 

 May and June; and as the flowers are produced 

 almost the whole length of the branches, it 

 makes a good appearance during the time of 

 flowering. It is a native of Italy and America. 



The fourth species has striated erect branches, 

 with short branchlets : the leaves alternate, pe- 

 tioled, silky-tomentose on both sides : the ra- 

 cemes longer than the branchlets : the flowers 

 very small, with villose germs^ It is a native of 

 New Granada. 



The fifth has abundant shoots, seldom two 

 ells high, the thickness of the finger, wand- 

 hke, branched : the wood brittle : the bark of 

 the shoots yellowish-brown, with prominent 

 dots scattered over it : the branches alternate, 

 commonly angular, with a testaceous bark some- 

 what striated, and in the younger branches co- 

 vered with a tender ash-coloured epidermis, 

 which falls off ; the annual shoots are grooved 

 and pubescent : the leaves alternate, softish, 

 pubescent with prostrate hairs, quite entire at 

 the base, but commonly gash-serrate from the 

 middle to the end, where they are sharp : co- 

 rymbs at the top of the stems frequent, many- 

 flowered, terminating the annual alternate shoots : 

 in gardens and in moist shady places these co- 

 rymbs are more elongated ; but in a ruder soil 

 most of the peduncles are clustered at the top 



like an umbel : the flowers biggish, white, 

 having a weak virose smell, and fugacious. 

 It is a native of Siberia, &c. 



It varies very much, with larger or smaller 

 leaves, more or less cut, but more commonly 

 quite entii'e and ovate-acute. 



The sixth species has several stems, scarcely 

 two ells high, very much branched from the bot- 

 tom : the branches rod-like, round, with a tes- 

 taceous bark cloven longitudinally: the leaves on 

 the younger branches and annual shoots alter- 

 nate, attended with smaller ones in little bundles, 

 hoary or glaucous, three-nerved, hardish, vary- 

 ing in form and size : on the luxuriant shoots 

 or branches sometimes ovate-acute, widish, ser- 

 rulate from the tip beyond the middle; but com- 

 monly oblong, bluntish, crenulate, or serrulate 

 towards the tip, or inore commonly quite entire: 

 the corymbs at the ends of the annual twigs, 

 very abundant, disposed along the branches on 

 one side, in hemispherical clusters : the flowers 

 smallish, white, odorous. It is a native of 

 Spain, &c., flowering here in April and May. 



The seventh has immerous stems, scarcely 

 thicker than a swan's quill, very much branched, 

 upright, with a gray bark more or less pale, and 

 somewhat angular, with sharp streaks running 

 down from the branches : the branches and 

 branchlets alternate, those of the last year very 

 smooth and yellow, leafy, and terminated by an 

 umbel : the leaves alternate, on very short pe- 

 tioles, smooth, glaucous, wide-ovate, retuse, 

 gash-trilobate : they vary even in the garden, 

 with fewer or more frequent gashes, with the 

 teeth or lobes obtuse or acute, in breadth, &c. : 

 the umbels very frequent at the ends of the an- 

 nual branches : peduncles often more than 

 thirty, besides a few axillary ones scattered be- 

 low the umbel : the flowers middle-sized, white. 

 It is an elegant shrub, and a native of Siberia. 



The eighth species rises with many shrubby 

 branching stalks, eight or ten feet high in good 

 ground, but generally five or six j they are co- 

 vered with a loose brown bark which falls off: 

 the leaves about the size and shape of those of 

 the common currant bush, ending in acute 

 points, and serrate on their edges : the flowers 

 are produced in roundish bunches at the end of 

 the branches ; are white with some sppts of a 

 pale red. It is a native of Canada and Virginia. 

 It is commonly known in the nurseries by the 

 name of Virginian Gelder Rose. 



The ninth rises with shrubby stalks like the 

 first, but sends out horizontal branches, which 

 are slender, and covered with a brown bark : the 

 leaves are of a thin texture, and a bright green 

 colour on both sides, slightly and acutely ser- 

 rate : the flowers in termmating panicles, small 



