108 26, ROSACJ?. 



Suborder II. Rosece. Tribe I. 

 Linn. 



Jl. & salicifolia (L.) : shrubby, slip. 0, 1. elliptic-lanceolate 

 unequally serrate glabrous, racemes terminal compound, stain. 

 exce-eding the petals. E. B. 1468. A shrub 4 5 feet high 

 with smooth round WBtidlike branches. Fi. flesh-coloured, in 

 dense erect racemes. l>amp places in the North and in Wales, 

 rare. Sh. VII. E. 8. 



'2. S. Ulmdria (L.) j herbaceous, slip, rounded, toothed, 1. in- 

 terruptedly pinnate, leaflets ovate undivided, the terminal one 

 larger palmately 3 5-lobed, fi. in compound cymes, caps, gla- 

 brous twisted together. J&. B. 960. St. 18. 8. St. about 3 

 feet high, angslar, branched. L. with a few large serrate 

 leaflets and very minute intermediate ones ; st. 1. usually downy 

 beneath. Cymes with long side branches. Fl. yellowish, sweet- 

 f y^ scented. Pet. roundish, [p. denudata (Boemi.) ; st^-1. green and gla- 

 brous on under surface.] Meadows and by water. P. VI. VII f. 

 Meadow-sweet. E. S. I, 



3. S. Filiperidula (L.) ; herbaceous, stip of the root-leaves 

 linear acute entire, those of the stem rounded and cut, 1. inter- 

 ruptedly pinnate, leaflets all oblony deeply cut and serrate, fl. in a 

 panicled cyme, caps, hairy, straight but adpressed. E. B. 284. 

 AY. 18. 7. Root producing knobs. St. 1 1| foot high, round, 

 simple, pauicled at the top. L. mostly radical, spreading ; leaf- 

 lets small, many, intermediate ones small. Fl. yellowish-white 

 tinged with red. Pet. obovate. Dry chalky and limestone 

 pastures. P. V. VII. Dropivort. E. S. I. 



Tribe II. Sanyuisorbea. 



3. SANGUISOR'BA Linn. Great Burnct. 



'1. S. officindlis (L.) ; spikes ovate-oblong, stain, about equal- 

 ling calyx, leaflets cordate-oblong. E. B. 1312. L. pinnate, 

 .ulabrous ; leaflets about 13, stalked, opposite, blunt, coarsely 

 serrate. Spikes rarely long, cylindrical. Fr. oblong, vinged 

 rhiefly in its upper half, transverse section terete, 4 wings thin. 

 Damp meadows. P. VI VIII. E. S. I. 



