ROSE FAMILY. 149 



S. hypericifblia, DC. Italian May or St. Peter's "Wkeatii. Shrub 

 3°-6° liigli, smooth or smoothish, with long recurved branches, and very 

 small, wcduc -I >li!oni; leaves, a little toothed or lobed at the end; flowers 

 small, white, early, in small sessile umbels. S. crenata is a form with 

 obovale and ercnulate leaves. Asia. 



■I- H- H- -t- Flotcers in simple, sessile uvibels along the slender' branches of 

 the preceding year, subtended only by greenish bud-scales or imperfect 

 leaves, rather earlier than the proper leaves, in spring. 



S. prunifblia, Sieb., from Japan ; slender shrub, with small, ovate, 

 finely and sharply serrate leaves, smooth above, often minutely downy 

 beneath ; the form usually cultivated has full-double, pure white blossoms, 

 I' in diameter, produced in great abundance. 



5. Thunbergii, Sieb., from Japan ; dwarf compact shrub with slender 

 and somewhat drooping branches ; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 sharply toothed, yellowish-green; flowers small and white, the umbels 

 arranged in long open sprays, very early. 



§ 2. Shrubby, loith pinnate leaves. 



S. sorbifolia, Linn. Cult, from Siberia, very hardy, o°-4° high, with 

 leaves (as the name denotes) resembling those of the Mountain Ash, of 

 17-21 lanceolate, taper-pointed, doubly and sharply serrate leaflets, and 

 white flowers in an ample terminal panicle, the narrow pods a little coher- 

 ing ; common in old gardens. 



§ 3. Herbs, with thrice pinnatebj-rompoxud leaves, no stipules, and dioi- 

 ciuus jluicers. 



S. Ardncus, Linn. Goat's Beaud. Rich woods from N. Y. S. and 

 W., also in some gardens; smooth, '■i>'^-b° 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 compound panicle ; petals narrow ; pedicels 

 reflexed in fruit. 



Var. astilboldes, Maxim., from Japan, is smaller (2 '), with pedicels 

 erect in fruii. 



§ 4. Herbs with interruptedly pinnate leaves, conspictious stipules, per- 

 fect flowers, reflexed sepals and petals sometimes 4, and 5-12 little 

 \-'i-seeded x>ods. 



S. Filipendula, Linn. Diioewoitr. Cult, from Ku. ; some of the 

 coarse, long, flbrous 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 gradnally diminishing in size downwards ; the nearly naked stems 

 l°-2° high, bearing a compound terminal cyme of white or ro.sy-tipped 

 flowers, one variety f nil-double. 



S. Ulmaria, Linn. Ksci.isn Meadowsweet. Cult, from Eu. ; l°-3" 

 high, nearly .smooth, except the lower .surface of the lyrate and intcr- 

 ruiitediy pinnate leaves which is minutely white-downy ; the yellowish- 

 white, small, and sweet-scented flowers very numerous and crowded in 

 a componnd cyme at the naked .sununit of the stems, sometinu's double ; 

 little pods twisting spirally. There is a variety with variegated foliage. 



S. lobata, Jac{[. Qieex of the I'nAiuiE. Wild in meadows and 

 prairies frmn Penn., W., also onlt. ; smooth and green; the leaves 

 mostly from or near the ground ; the entl leaflet very large, 7-0-parted, 

 and its lobes cut-toothed ; .stems 2'-'-.J^, or even b^^ high, bearing an ample 

 and jianicled compoiuul cyme crowded with the handsome iieacli-blossom- 

 colored flowers. Bruised foliage exhales the odor of Sweet Hireli. 



