90 26. ROSACEA. 



** Young leaves conduplicate. Cerasus. 



2. P. Padus (L.); arborescent, 1. obovate-knceolate finely 

 serrate glabrous, fl. in pendulous racemes, fr. roundish-oblong. — 

 E. B. 1383. — A small tree. L. minutely doubly serrate. Fl. 

 white, many, in a lax raceme. Fr. black, harsh and bitter, with 

 a corrugated nut. — Woods and hedges. T. V. Bird Cherry. 



3. P. Avium (L.) ; arborescent, Z. drooping oblong-obovate 

 suddenly cuspidate incise-serrate downy beneath, calyx-tube con- 

 tracted below the entire sepals, "fr. heartshaped." — E. B. 706. 

 — A tree of 20 — 30 feet high. Outer scales of the leaf-buds de- 

 flexed. F'lower-buds not leafy. Fl. in umbels. Pet. bifid, with 

 a minute claw. " Fr. firm, bitter, black or red." Borr. — Woods. 

 T. V. Wild Cherry. 



4. P. Cerasus (L.) ; fruticose, I. not drooping oblong-obovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate doubly crenate-serrate glabrous, calyx-tube 

 not contracted, fruit round.— i?.B. S. 2863.— An erect bushy 

 shrub, 3 — 8 feet high. Umbels scattered. Outer scales of the 

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

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

 acid, always red." — Hedges. Sh. V. E. 



Suborder II. Rosecs. Tribe I. Spiraa. 



2. SpiR^A Linn. 



fl. S. salicifolia (h.) ; shrubby, slip. 0, 1. elliptic-lanceolate 

 unequally serrate glabrous, racemes terminal compound, stam. 

 exceeding the petals. — E. 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. 

 Sh. VII. E. S. *I. 



2. S. Ulmaria (L.) ; herbaceous, slip, rounded toothed, 1. in- 

 terruptedly pinnate, leaflets ovate undivided, the terminal one 

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

 caps, glabrous contorted. — E. B. 960. St. 18. 8.' — St. abput 3 

 feet high, angular, branched. L. with a few large serrated leaf- 

 lets and veiy minute intermediate ones, downy beneath. Pe- 

 duncles downy. Fl. yellowish, sweetscented. Pet. roundish. — 

 Meadows and by water. P. VI. — VIII. Meadow-sweet. 



3. S. Filipendula (L.); herbaceous, stip. of the root-leaves 

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

 ruptedly ))innate, leaflets all oblong deeply cut and serrate, fl. in 

 a panicled cyme, caps, hairy parallelly adpressed. — E. B. 284. 

 St. 18. 7. — Root producing tubers. St. 1 — Ufoot high, round, 

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



