148 KOSE FAMILY. 



S. toment6sa, Linn. HARDHACK or STEEPLE BUSH. Common in low 

 grounds ; 2-3 high ; hoary-downy, except the upper face of the ovate or 

 oblong, serrate, small leaves ; the rose-purple or white flowers crowded in 

 a very dense terminal panicle ; pistils downy. 



S. salicifdlia. Linn. COMMOX MEADOWSWEET. Common in wet 

 grounds, also in old gardens ; shrub 2-3 high, bushy, smooth, with 

 wedge-lanceolate or oblong leaves, simply or doubly serrate, and white 

 or barely flesh-colored flowers in a crowded panicle. 



* Cultivated for ornament, exotic or W. North American. 



- Flowers in close or spike-like clusters collected in a close and narrow or 

 spike-like terminal panicle, pink-purple. 



S. Dougldsif, Hook. DOUGLAS'S MEADOWSWEET. Cult, from Ore. 

 and Cal.; resembles our wild Hardback (S. tomentosa), but has longer, 

 usually lance-oblong and very blunt leaves, rather whiter beneath, and 

 deeper pink flowers with smooth pistils. S. NOBLEANA is a form of this, 

 with smoother leaves and broader clusters. 



i- - Flowers in compound corymbs or broad panicles. 



S. Japdnica, Linn. (Known also as S. CALL6SA and S. FORTUNEI). 

 From Japan and China ; shrub 3-6 high, smoothish, with lance-oblong 

 and taper-pointed, unequally and very sharply serrate leaves ; branches 

 terminated by clustered, pubescent, dense corymbs or cymes of deep pink 

 flowers; 10 glands at the mouth of the calyx; the pistils smooth. 

 Common. S. PANICULATA of gardens is a form with more panicled 

 inflorescence. 



S. disco/or, Pursh., var. ariaefblia, Wats. Tall shrub from Ore., 

 with slender branches, terminated by a very large and light or drooping 

 decompound panicle of small, yellowish-white flowers ; the leaves round- 

 ish-ovate, very obtuse, thin, cut on each side into 4 or 5 blunt and toothed 

 lobes, sometimes almost pinnatifid, soft-downy, at least beneath. 



*- - -i- Flowers in simple, often umbel-like corymbs terminating leafy 

 shoots of the season ; natives of Europe and Asia ; petals white (except 

 the first species.) 



S. bella, Sims, from Nepal ; a low shrub, with ovate, acute and merely 

 sharply serrate leaves, whitish-downy beneath, the simple corymbs some- 

 times clustered, and rose-pink flowers. 



S. rotundifolia, Lindl., from India, has roundish obovate small leaves, 

 which are entire below and sparingly toothed on the broad, obtuse sum- 

 mit, and flowers in compact clusters. 



S. chamaedrifblia, Linn., from E. Eu. and Siberia; a spreading low 

 bush, smooth, with ovate or oblong, usually blunt and cut-toothed leaves, 

 at least towards the summit, and rather small flowers in simple corymbs. 

 S. OBLONGIF6LIA is a form with narrower leaves. 



S. ulmi folia, Scop., from Siberia, is very like the last, but distinguished 

 by the ovate-lanceolate leaves which are more or less ciliate on the 

 edges. 



S. trilobata, Linn, (or S. TRfLOBA of gardens), from Siberia ; a spread- 

 ing smooth bush, with rounded crenately cut and 3-lobed leaves and 

 rather showy flowers. S. VAN HOUTTEI is an improved form of this, with 

 larger stature and more profuse bloom. 



S. cratcegi folia, Link. Leaves ovate and pointed, toothed and cut, 

 scarcely lobed ; flowers in small stalked umbels ; hardy and showy. 

 Native country unknown. 



S. Cantoniinsis, Lour., (known also as S. LANCEOI.\TA and S. HKKVKS- 

 IAXA), from China, has oblong, lance-oblong, or some three-cleft serrate- 

 toothed leaves, and showy flowers. 



