SPIRAEA STATICB. 



lance-shaped, acute. North America. 



Bog-bed, peat borders, margins 



of beds of American plants, or in the 

 lower parts of the rock-garden, always 

 in moist deep peat soil. Division. 



Spiraea Aruncus (Goafs-beard S.) A 

 vigorous perennial, 3 to 5 ft. high. 

 Flowers, in summer ; white, small, 

 freely produced in long spikes form- 

 ing a terminal panicle. Leaves, tri- 

 pinnate ; leaflets in 3 or 4 pairs with 

 an odd one, about 2 in. long and about 

 1 in. broad, oblong, acute, serrate ; 

 the terminal one ovate. Europe, Asia, 



and America. Associated with the 



more vigorous herbaceous plants by 

 wood- walks or banks, etc., and also 

 grouped with the finer herbaceous 

 plants having fine foliage. Division. 



Spiraea Filipendula (Dropwort}. A 

 rather common native herb, with pin- 

 nate leaves and erect stems, 1 to 2 ft. 

 high. Flowers, in summer; yellowish- 

 white, often tipped with red, rather 

 larger than those of S. Ulmaria, 

 in loose terminal corymbs. Leaves, 

 mostly radical or on the lower part of 

 the stem, alternate, smooth, divided 

 into numerous oblong-linear segments, 

 deeply toothed; roots swelling into 

 small oblong tubers here and there. 

 The double variety, S. Filipendula, fl. 

 pl. , is a very pretty border-plant. Com- 

 mon in meadows throughout Europe. 



Borders, in ordinary soil, or as a 



fern-like edging-plant, the flowers to 

 be pinched off. ' Division. 



Spiraea palmata (Palmate Spiraea}. 

 A new and handsome kind, 1 to 2 ft. 

 high. Flowers, in June and July; 

 crimson, in a terminal panicle which 

 is many times divided. Leaves, 4 in. 

 long, alternate, stalked, palmate, with 

 5 to 7 lobes, smooth, veined and reti- 

 culated, pale underneath; lobes ob- 

 long, pomted, sharply and twice 

 serrate. Stem herbaceous, striated, 

 erect, smooth. Japan. Borders, 



and beds of the liner perennials, in 

 deep sandy loam. Division. 



Spiraea Ulmaria (Meadow-sweet). A 

 common British plant with erect, 

 reddish, angular, and furrowed stems 

 2 to 4 ft. high. Flowers, in summer ; 

 yellowish-white, sweet-scented, small, 

 numerous, in a large very compound 

 cyme, the outer branches of which 

 rise much above the central one. 

 Leaves, large, pinnate ; leaflets 5 to 9, 

 ovate, coarsely serrated, terminal one 

 largest and 3-lobed ; stipules round- 

 ish, joined to the stalk. There is a 

 variegated variety, and also a double- 

 flowered one. Europe and Britain. 



Borders, in any soil, and in waste 



places. Division. 



Spirasa venusta (Queen of the 

 Prairie). A handsome hardy peren- 

 nial, li to 3 ft. high. Flowers, in 

 summer; deep rosy-carmine, in large 

 terminal compound cymes. Leaves, 

 large, pinnate ; leaflets palmate-lobed ; 

 lobes pointed and irregularly toothed. 

 North America and Siberia. Bor- 

 ders, margin of shrubberies, beds of 

 the finer perennials, or naturalization, 

 in sandy loam. Division. 



Stachys lanata (Woolly Woundwort). 

 A densely woolly perennial, 12 to 

 18 in. high. Flowers, in summer ; 

 purple, small, in whorled spikes, 30 

 flowers or more in a whorl; corolla 

 woolly outside, with an inclosed tube. 

 Leaves, thick, wrinkled, oblong-ellip- 

 tic, narrowed at both ends, densely 

 clothed with* silky hairs ; floral ones 

 smaller. Tauria and the Caucasus. 



Borders, and as an edging-plant, 



in any soil ; also suited for naturaliza- 

 tion. Division. 



Statice angustifolia (Narrow -leaved 

 Sea Lavender}. Considered a fine va- 

 riety of the British Sea Lavender, S. 

 Limonium ; 1 ft. to 16 in. high. Flowers, 

 from July to September or October ; 

 small, bluish-lilac, very numerous, in 



