ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Rosa. 309 



Filipendula n. 1 135. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 55. 



Ulmaria. Rail Sijn. 259. Clirn. Pann. 699. f. Hisi.v.2. \93.f. 

 Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 488./. bad. 



Regina prati. Dod. Pempt. 57./. Ger. Em. 1043./. 



Barbicapra. Lob. 7c. 71 1 ./. 



In moist meadows, and about the banks of rivers and ditches, 

 common. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root fibrous, without knobs. Stems 3 or 4 feet high, leafy, 

 branclied, furrowed, angular, smooth. Leaves of a few large, 

 pointed, unequally serrated, veiny leajiets; the terminal one 

 deeply 3-lobed 3 intermediate ones very small; all white and 

 densely downy beneath, Stipulas rounded, deeply toothed. 

 Ft. extremely numerous, cream-coloured, with a sweet but 

 oppressive hawthorn-like scent, in dense, compound cymose pa- 

 nicles. Cal. reflexed. Pet. roundish. Stam. numerous. Gei-- 

 meiis 6 or 8, sometimes more, spirally contorted, with ahort styles , 

 and large capitate stigmas. 



The taste of the herbage, like the scent of the flowers, is aromatic, 

 resembling the American Gaultheria procumbens, as is well ob- 

 served by Dr. Bigelow, in his American Medical Botany, v. 2. 

 30. t.22. Nor is it unlike the flavour of Orange-flower water. 

 Dried sloe-leaves partake of this flavour, see p. 357 ; and hence 

 we trace it to the perfume of green tea, and the delicious odour 

 of the Chinese Oleafragrans, a plant in no respect allied to our 

 Meadow-sweet. 



Spircea salicifoUa, see n. 1 , has been found in Gibside wood, Dur- 

 ham, by Mr. R. VVigham. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



254. ROSA. Rose. 



Linn. Gen. 254. Juss. 335. Fl.Br.537. Sm. in Reess Cycl. v. 30. 

 Tourii. t. 408. Lam. t. 4^0. Gcertn. t. 73. Woods Tr. of L. Soc. 

 t). 12. 173. 



Nat. Ord. Se?iticosce. Linn. 35. Rosacea'. Juss. 92. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf; tube pitcher-shaped, contracted at 

 the summit, permanent, finally succulent ; limb in 5 

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