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3. P. Cerasus (Morello Cherry.) In woods, hedges, and 

 thickets. An upright, bushy shrub, from 6 to 8 feet high ; leaves 

 oblong-obovate or broadly ovate-lanceolate, not drooping ; flowers 

 white, in scattered umbels. Fruit always red, juicy and acid, 

 round. Berry Pomeroy woods. Copse at Chudleigh, (E. B. S. 

 t. 2863.) Sh. v. 



SFBOBD. II. 

 TRIBE I. 

 SPIRJEA. DEOPWOET OB MEADOW-SWEET. 



1. S. Filipendula (common Dropwort.) In meadows, pas- 

 tures, and open woods, very frequent. A beautiful little plant ; 

 stems erect, from 1 to 2 feet high ; leaves confined to the lower 

 part of the stem, mostly radical, interruptedly pinnate, with nu- 

 merous small oblong or lanceolate segments, deeply cut and 

 serrate. Flowers small, cream-coloured, tipped with pink, in a 

 compound cluster terminating the stem. Plentiful in meadows 

 and pastures about Torquay and Mary church. (E. B. t. 284.) 

 P. vi. YII. 



2. S. Ulmaria (Meadow-sweet, Queen of the Meadows.) In 

 meadows and by the sides of ditches and ponds. Plant from 2 

 to 4 feet high ; stem branched and furrowed. Leaves large, pin- 

 nate, with ovate or broadly lanceolate segments, green above, 

 whitish beneath ; terminal segment the largest and divided into 

 3 lobes. Flowers sweet-scented, small, yellowish-white, hi com- 

 pound cymes. Fruit twisted spirally. Meadows behind Torre 

 Abbey. Cockington. Lanes about Marychurch. (E.^B. t. 960.) 

 P. vi.-vm. 



TBIBE II. POTENTILLID.E. 

 GEUM. AYENS. 



G. urbanum (common Averts.) Under hedges, by roadsides, 

 banks, and borders of fields. Plant upright, with slightly branched 

 stems, 1 to 2 feet high ; root-leaves irregularly pinnate and lyrate, 

 on long stalks ; stem-leaves divided into 3 segments, all coarsely 

 serrate. Flowers erect, small and yellow, petals spreading ; calyx 

 with 10 segments. Heads of fruit sessile, covered with silky 

 hairs. Hedges by the side of the Ansti's Cove lane. Wood near 

 Ansti's Cove. Cockington lanes, etc., frequent. (E. B. t. 1400.) 

 P. YI.-YIII. 



