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305 



produced in great abundance ; and, when the shrub is allowed space to ex- 

 1 pand on ever^' side, it forms a very beautiful bush in the flowering season. It 

 I makes handsome garden hedges, and will bear the shears, which were formerly 

 j applied to it, to shape it into artificial forms, when j, 



': topiary woi'k was fashionable in garden scenery. It 

 is readily propagated by layers, or by detaching its 

 suckers. *^ 



12. S. (h.) thalictroi'des Pa!/. 

 Hue-leaved Spirsea. 



The Meadow- 



Idenlificalion. Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. p. 34. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 543.; Don's 



Mill., 2. p. 5)8. 

 Synonymes. S. aquilegiR)lia Pall. Itin. 3. App. 734. No. 94.; S. hy- 



pericifftlia var. flava ; and S. alpina latifblia. 

 Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 18.; and ouryfg. 509. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves obovate, obtuse, indistinctly 

 3-lobed, inconspicuously 3-nerved, glaucous beneath. 

 Flowers in lateral sessile umbels. (Dec. Prod.) A 

 low erect shrub. Alps of Dahuria. Height 1 ft. to 

 3ft. Introduced in 1816. Flowers white; May and 

 June. Capsule reddish ; ripe in September. 



509. S. (A.) flialictrOWes. 



^ 13. S. CUNEIFO^LAI Wall. The wedge-leaved Spiraea. 



\uentification. Wall. Cat., 699. ; Bot. Reg. M. Chron. 839, No. 87. 

 Synonymes. S. canesceus ; Don Prod. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 544. ; 

 1 Don's Mill., 2. p. 519. ; S. argentea Hort. 

 Engraving. Owr Jig. 510. 



Spec. Char., c^-c. Leaves oval or obovate, obtuse, 

 stalked, quite entire, villous ; corymbs crowded, and 

 as well as the branches tomentose. (Don's Mill.) 

 An erect-branched canescent shrub, with the habit of 

 5. Aypericifoha. Nepal, at Sirinagur. Height?. In- 

 troduced in 1837. Flowers white, downy, in close 

 corymbose panicles. 



The leaves are small, thick, downy, wedge-shaped, 

 nd either crenated near the point, or undivided ; they 

 re bright green on the upper side, and glaucous be- 

 eath, with nothing of a canescent appearance, which 



only visible when they are dried. 



a 14. S. pikowie'nsis Besser. The Pikow Spiraea. 



'entification. Besser Enum. PI. Pod., p. 46. No. 1428. ; Dec. Prod., 2. 

 p. 543. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 519. 

 igraving. Om Jig. 000. in p. 000. 



oec. Char., S^c. Leaves with three primary veins, and serrate at the tip, cu- 



neate-lanceolate, obtuse, rarely pointed. Flowers in peduncled corymbs. 



UDec. Prod.) A deciduous shrub. Podolia at Pikow. Height 3 ft, to 4 ft. 



Introd. in 1807. Flowers white ; June and July. 



' 1 - CI 



j 10. A. CEANOTHiFoYiA Hor7i. The Ceanothus- 

 1 leaved Spirsa. 



intification. Horn. Hort. Hafn., p. 2. 466. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. r,44. 

 ^graving. Our^Sg. 511. ^ 



\cc. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate, rounded at the base, 

 serrated from the middle to the tip with sharp un- 

 equal teeth. Flowers in indistinctly peduncled 

 Iterminal corymbs. {Dec. Prod.) An erect shrub. 

 Native country unknown. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. 

 jlntroduced in 1823. Flowers white ; June and 

 jluly. Capsule reddish ; ripe in September. 



510. S. cuneifblia. 



,511.. . ceailothUutiar 



