1 44 Rosacea Spircea. 



1 to 2 feet high. Leaves interruptedly pinnate, glabrous. 

 Flowers cymose, white tinged with pink. Carpels straight, 

 pubescent. The double variety of this is one of the best of 

 the genus for a border. June and July. 



3. S. Aruncus (fig. 81). Groat's Beard. A tall vigorous 

 plant about 4 feet high, with large tripinnate radical leaves 

 and yellowish white dioecious flowers. A native of Central 

 Europe and Siberia, flowering in Summer. 



4. .8. lobata. Queen of the Prairies. In habit this closely 

 resembles the Meadow Sweet. The large leaves are inter- 

 ruptedly pinnate with nearly glabrous palmtitely-divided leaflets, 

 the terminal one largest. Flowers in large terminal corymbs, 

 bright rosy-red. North America. 



5. 8. palmata. A very beautiful species of recent intro- 

 duction. An erect glabrous plant with palmately-lobed toothed 

 leaves and large corymbose panicles of brilliant crimson flowers. 

 The stems and leaf-stalks are of the same colour as the flowers, 

 and altogether it forms one of the most striking and effective 

 species in cultivation. A native of Japan. 



Shrubby Species. 



6. 8. bella. A pretty species about 3 feet high, with simple 

 ovate acute serrate glabrous leaves and terminal spreading 

 cymes of rosy-red flowers. A native of Nepal, flowering in 

 July. 



7. 8. Fortunei, syn. 8. callosa of gardens. From 4 to 6 

 feet high, with terminal flat corymbs of rosy-red flowers. 

 Leaves glabrescent, simple, lanceolate, acute, sharply serrate, 

 serratures thickened at the tip. A very handsome and desirable 

 Chinese species. 



8. 8. grandiflora, syn. Exochorda grandiftora. A glabrous 

 shrub with oblong-lanceolate membranous petiolate leaves and 

 large white flowers in axillary slender few-flowered racemes- 

 This handsome species has much larger flowers than the others, 

 the calyx is furnished with two bracts at its base, and the 

 carpels are connate. It comes from the North of China, and 

 flowers in May. 



9. 8. prunifolia. The variety flore pleno is one of the most 

 familiar in gardens. It is a dwarf shrub with small glabrous 

 lanceolate leaves connate at the base and irregularly serrated 

 on the upper half, and pure white flowers produced in fascicles 



