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flowers arranged on them in very sliort dense racemes. Calyx- 

 segments deltoid, reflexed. Carpels 5, glabrous. 



In moist woods and thickets, and by the sides of streams. 

 Bare, and probably not native, though occurring in many of 

 the northern counties of England, and still more frequently in 

 Scotland. 



[England, Scotland.] Shrub. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



A bushy shrub with slender branches, clothed with smooth 

 reddish-brown bark. Leaves 2 to 3 inches long, on petioles about 

 5 inch long ; margins sometimes simply serrated, sometimes un- 

 equally or doubly so, with the teeth generally acute, tipped by a 

 callous point. Panicles terminating the branches, 2 to 5 inches 

 long. Elowers f inch across, pink or neai-ly white [in the white 

 variety the lateral branches of the panicle are usually more elon- 

 gated, and the leaves doubly serrated]. Calyx-segments about as 

 long as the cuji-like tube, deltoid-ovate, ciliated, with short curled 

 hairs. Leaves bright-green, nearly glabrous, those at the base of 

 the branches of the panicle, bracts, axis of the inflorescence, and 

 peduncles more or less woolly. 



Willow-leaved Spiraa. 



French, Spiree d Feuilles de Saule. German, HeideMattriger Spierstaude. 



This species has long been cultivated in gardens and shrubberies under the name 

 of SpircBa Jrulex. 



Section II.— ULMARIA. Mdnch. 



Herbs with interruptedly - pinnate stipulate leaves. Elowers 

 perfect, in paniculate or corymbose cymes. Ovaries free at the 

 base, containing about 2 pendulous ovules. Disk obsolete. Fol- 

 licles not inflated, straight or contorted. 



SPECIES II.— SPIR^A ULMARIA. Linn. 

 Plate CCCCXV. 



Herbaceous. Boot-fibres not enlarged. Leaves pinnate, with 

 5 to 9 pairs of unequal leaflets ; larger leaflets ovate, acute, doubly 

 serrate, or slightly lobed and serrate, the alternate ones very small, 

 roundish, inciso-dentate, the terminal one larger than all the others, 

 3-cleft, all pubescent, and usually hoary tomentose beneath. Sti- 

 pules of the radical leaves with an elongated acute free apex, those 

 of the stem-leaves half-ovate, cordate, sharply dentate. Flowers in 

 a compound corymbose cyme, with the lower, branches erect, much 



