CL. XII. J ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 217 



2. S. Filipi'ndula, Common Dropwort. Leaves interruptedly 

 pinnate, leaflets uniform, serrate ; flowers cymose ; stem herba"- 



ceous. Root woody, with hard elliptical knobs : stem about a 



foot high, round, smooth, panicled at the top : leaves chiefly radi- 

 cal, spreading : panicle forked, with cream-coloured flowers, tinged 

 with red externally. Perennial : flowers in July : grows in open 

 pastures. Eng. Bot. vol. iv. pi. 284. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 369. 745. 



3. 5. Ulmdria. Meadow-sweet. Leaves interruptedly pinnate, 

 downy beneath, the terminal leaflet largest, and lobed ; stem 



herbaceous, flowers cymose. Root fibrous : stems from two to 



four feet high, angular, branched : flowers very numerous, cream- 

 coloured, sweet-scented, in dense compound panicles. The whole 

 plant is astringent ; a decoction of it with copperas is used in the 

 Hebrides for dyeing black. Perennial : flowers in June and July : 

 grows in meadows, and about the edges of rivers and ditches. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. xiv. pi. 960. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 369. 746. 



POLYGYNIA. 



5. RO'SA. ROSE. 



Calyx of one leaf, inferior, with a pitcher-shaped tube, con- 

 tracted at the summit, permanent, and finally succulent, the 

 limb deeply divided into five deep, lance-shaped, pointed seg- 

 ments, either all simple, or two of them with leafy appendages 

 on both sides, one with appendages on one side only, and the 

 other two naked on both sides. Petals five, inversely heart- 

 shaped. Filaments thread-like, numerous, much shorter than 

 the petals ; anthers roundish, flattened, two-lobed. Germens 

 numerous, oblong, lining the tube of the calyx, interspersed 

 with silky hairs. Styles one to each germen, lateral ; stigmas 

 obtuse. Fruit globular or egg-shaped, formed of the perma- 

 nent, pulpy, coloured tube of the calyx, closed at the top. 

 Seeds numerous, bristly, lining the calyx, and interspersed with 

 hairs. Named from the Celtic rhos. ' 250. 



* Branches covered with bristles. Prickles slender, nearly strait/ ht. 



1. H. Dicksoni. Dicksons Eose. Fruit egg-shaped; flower- 

 stalks bristly, enlarged at their upper part ; prickles of the stem, 

 scattered ; leaflets oval, grey on both sides with fine hairs, their 



serratures mostly simple. Stem erect, with spreading flexuous 



branches, dark-red tinged with grey : leaflets five or seven : petals 

 shorter than the calyx, deep-pink. Flowers in June : discovered 

 in Ireland by Mr. J. Drummond. Eng. Bot. Suppl. pi. 2707. Brit. 

 Fl. 4th ed. p. 198. 747. 



2. It. cinnamomea. Cinnamon Rose. Fruit egg-shaped or glo- 

 bular, smooth; flower-stalks smooth; prickles of the stem very 

 unequal, numerous, horizontal, awl-shaped ; leaflets oblong, sim*- 



ply serrate. Stem four or five feet high, with deep-red bark, 



and slender horizontal or deflected prickles ; stipules oblong, 

 pointed, fringed with glands : leaflets greyish-green, downy, with- 

 out glands : petals broad, concave, purplish-red: fruit deep-red. 

 Flowers in May, and through the summer : grows at Birkhill, in 



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