100 26. EOSACE^. 



4. P. Cer'asus (L.) ; fraticos'e, I. not drooping bblong-obovate 

 01' ovate-lanceolate doubly crenatf-serrate cjlahroiis, calyx-tube not 

 coiistricted, fruit roimd. — E. B. S. 2863. — An erect busliy shrub, 

 3 — 8 feet higb. Umbels scattered. Outer scales of the leaf- 

 buds erect. Inner scales of the flower-buds leafy. Sep. cre- 

 nate-serrate. Pet. subemarginate, "with a claw. "Fr. juicy, 

 acid, always, red." — Hedges. Sb. V. Dwfirf Cherry. .. E.I. 



Suborder II. Rosea. Tribe I. SpircEidae. 



2. SpiE-aiA lAnn. 



XI. S. salieifdlia (L.) ; shrubby, stip. 0, 1. elliptic-lanceolate 

 unequally serrate ' glabrous, racemes terminal compound, stam. 

 exceeding tbe petals.— JS. .B. 1468. — A shrub of 4-— 5 feet high 

 with smooth round wandlike branches. Fl. flesh-coloured, in 

 dense erect racemes. — ^Damp woods in the North and in Wales, 

 rare. Sh. Vn. , E. S. 



2. S. ' Ulmdria (L.) ; herbaceous, stip. founded toothed. 1. in- 

 terruptedly pinnate, U^flebs ' OTate undivided, the terminal one 

 larger palmately 3 — 5-lobed, fl. in compound cymes, caps, gla- 

 brous twisted. — St. 18. 8. — St. about 3 feet hig-h, angular, 

 branched. L. with a few large serrate leaflets and very minute 

 intermediate ones,' dowiy beneath. Cymes with long side 

 branches. Fl. yellowish, sweet-scented. Pet. roundish. — Mea- 

 dows and by water; P. "VI. — Vlll. Meadow-subeet: E. S. I. 



3. 8. Filipen^dida (L.) ; herbaceous, stip. of the root-leaves 

 linear acute entire, those of the stem rounded and cut, 1. inter- 

 ruptedly pinnate,, Z?a/2efo all oblong deeply cut and serrate, fl. in a 

 panicled cyme, caps, hairy parallelly adpressed not twisted.— 

 St. 18. 7. — Root producing knobs. St. 1 — 1^ foot high, round, 

 simple, panicled at the top. L. mostly radical, spreading ; leaf- 

 lets small, many, intermediate ones small. Fl. yellowish-white 

 tinged with red. ' Pfet. obdvate. — Dry chalky and limestone 

 pastures. P. VI. VII. Dropwort. E. S. I. 



Tribe II. Sanguisorbida. 

 3. Sangtjisgk'ba Linn. Great Burnet. 



1. S. officinalis (L.) ; spikes ovat^-oblong, stam. about as long 

 as the calyx, leaflets' cordateroblong. — L. pinnate, glabrous ; 

 leaflets about 13, stalked, opposite, blunt, coarsely , sewate. 

 Spikes rarely long, cylindrical. Fr. oblong, winged chiefly in 



