88 Rose (Rosacece) 



Fig. 34. Hardback. Steeple-Bush. S. tomenttsa, L. 

 flowers, small, rose-colored or rarely white, crowded in 

 steeple-shaped, terminal clusters. Seed-cases, five, 

 woolly. July, August. 



Leaves, crowded, egg-shape or oblong, toothed, very 

 white-woolly beneath. New shoots, covered with a 

 rusty down. Old stems, smooth, and of a bronze color. 

 Fruit, as above. 



Found, in low ground from Georgia northward and west- 

 ward. 



A small shrub, two to five feet high, with hard, brittle 

 stalks, that call for troublesome " hacking " on the part 

 of the haymakers, whence one of its names. It is orna- 

 mental, and is often cultivated for its pretty, steeple-like 

 clusters of late-blooming, rosy flowers. 



(3) Genus PHYSOCARPUS, Maxim. (Nine-Bark.) 



From two Greek words meaning "bladder" and " nut." 

 Fig- 35. Nine-Bark. P. opulifblius (L.) Maxim. 



Flowers, small, white, often purple-tinged, in close, 

 rounded clusters two and one half inches in diameter, 

 each flower with a thread-like, downy stem. Petals, 

 five. Stamens, thirty to forty. Seed-cases, one to 

 five, inflated. Young seeds, two to four. June. 



Leaves, one to two and one half inches long, three-lobed, 

 with the lobes sharply toothed, base somewhat heart- 

 shaped or pointed. Bark, gray, loose, and flaking 

 off in thin scales. 



Fruit, conspicuous, a smooth, simple case, inflated and 

 purplish, with one cell and two ripened seeds, usually 

 in clusters of three to five. Seeds, rounded, smooth, 

 and shining. A follicle or cluster of follicles. 



