Description of Foreign Shrubs 
18. Californian Rose-mallow. (Hibiscus californicus.) 
Lear: 3'-5‘, simple, alternate, serrate, zo/ lobed, ovate, cordate 
at base, soft-hairy and ashy gray beneath. FLOWER: p. white 
or rose, with purple eye, 3'-5’ across (petals 5, stamens in a col- 
umn, 5 capitate stigmas on united styles). 
19. The Spirzas. (Spirza.) 
The leaf is usually simple, alternate, serrate, 1’-2’, rarely com- 
pound or lobed. The flower is polypetalous, with 5 petals and 
many stamens, small and clustered, usually white, sometimes pink 
orred. The specific details are as follows : 
(a) S. callosa ; leaf coarsely and finely sharply serrate, lance- 
oblong, apex tapering. Flower (with 10 glands in calyx) in dense 
terminal clusters. Var. a/éa has white, var. rosea has deep pink 
blossoms. Japan. 
(b) S. Antonia wateri » leaf coarsely serrate, long oval, apex 
pointed. Blossoms in large heads of bright crimson or deep pink ; 
only 2°-3° high ; compact and dwarf. Japan. 
(c) S. Douglasii ; leaf serrate, lance-oblong, apex blunt, a lit- 
tle whitened beneath. Flowers small, deep pink, in erect pani- 
cles of spike-like clusters; much like ‘‘ hard hack,” but deeper 
colored. California and Oregon. 
(d) S. prunifola ; leaf finely and sharply serrate, ovate, small. 
Flower as cultivated fw//-double, white, %' across, profuse. 
Japan. 
(e) S. Reevesii : leaf coarsely serrate, often 3-5-lobed, ellipti- 
cal, blue-green beneath; branches not hairy. Flower white, in 
compact clusters; May, June. Var. flore pleno has flowers 
double; 3°-5°. Japan. 
(f) S. soréifolia ; leaf pinnate, alternate ; leaflets 17-21, sharp- 
ly serrate, lance-shaped, quite tapering. Flower white, small, in 
large terminal panicles. Siberia. (Pl. II.) 
(g) S. Van Houtii : leaf pinnate, alternate ; leaflets 3, serrate, 
oval. Flowers white, profuse ; May; 4°-6°. Japan. (Pl. II.) 
(h) S. salicifolia ; leaf serrate, eilipt*ee] smaller at base, 
smooth. Flower flesh-red in terminal panicles; June-August ; 
branches angular; 3°-6°. Siberia. 
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