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S. prunifdlia, from Japan : slender shrub, with small ovate finely and 

 sharply serrate leaves, smooth above, often minutely downy beneath ; the form 

 cultivated has full-double pure white blossoms, 4' in diameter, produced in great 

 abundance. 



§2. Shrubby, unth pimiate leaves. 

 S. SOrbifdlia. Cult, from Siberia, very hardy, 3° - 4° high, with leaves 

 (as the name denotes) resembling those of the Mountain-Ash, of 17 - 21 lan- 

 ceolate taper-pointed doubly and sharply serrate leaflets, and white flowers in 

 an ample terminal panicle, the narrow pods a little cohering. 



§ 3 . Herbs, with thrice pinnatdy-compound leaves, no stipules, and dioecious flowers. 



S. Artincus, Goatsbeard. Rich woods from New York S. & W., also 

 in some gardens : smooth, 3° - 5° high ; with lance-oblong or lance-ovate taper- 

 pointed leaflets sharply serrate and cut, and yellowish-white very small flowers 

 m great numbers, crowded in slender spikes which are collected in a great com- 

 pound panicle ; petals narrow ; pedicels reflexed in fruit. 



§ 4. Herbs, with interruptedly pinnate leaves, conspicuous stipules, perfect flowers, 

 reflexed sepals and petals sometimes 4, and 5-12 little 1 - 3-se&ded pods. 



S. Filip^ndula, Deopwoet. Cult, from Europe : some of the coarse 

 long fibrous roots swollen at the lower end into oblong tubers ; herbage smooth 

 and green ; leaves chiefly from or near the ground, with many oval or lanceolate 

 leaflets deeply toothed, cut, or pinnately cleft, and gradually diminishing in size 

 downwards ; the nearly naked stems l°-2° high, bearing a compound terminal 

 cyme of white or rosy-tipped flowers, one variety full-double. 



S. Ulmaria, English Meadow-Sweet. Cult, from Europe ; 1° - 3° 

 high, nearly smooth, except the lower surface of the lyrate and interruptedly 

 pinnate leaves which is minutely white-downy; the yellowish-white small and 

 sweetscented flowers very numerous and crowded in a compound cyme at the 

 naked summit of the stems ; little pods twisting spirally. 



S. lobdita, Queen-op-the-Peaieie. Wild in meadows and prairies W., 

 also cult. : smooth and green ; the leaves mostly from or near the ground ; the 

 end leaflet very large, 7 - 9-parted, and its lobes cut-toothed ; stems 2° - 5° or 

 even 8° high, bearing an ample and panicled compound cyme crowded with the 

 handsome peach-blossom-colored flowers. Bruised foliage exhales the odor of 

 Sweet Birch. 



3. GILLEMTA, INDIAN PHYSIC, AMERICAN IPECAC. (Named 

 {or a. Dr. Gillen or Gilleniiis.) Fl. summer. ^ 



G. trifoli^ta, Common I. or Bowman's-Root. Rich woods, from New 

 York S. & W. ; smooth, branching, 2° high, with the 3 ovate-oblong pointed 

 leaflets cut-toothed, entire stipules small and slender, and rather pretty white or 

 scarcely losy-tinged flowers loosely panicled on the slender branches. 



G. stipul&cea, Laeoe-stipuled I. or Ameeican Ipecac. Open woods, 

 W. : has the lanceolate leaflets and leaf-like stipules deeply cut and toothed :' 

 otherwise like the other. 



4. KERRIA. (Named fer Bellenden Ker, a British botanist.) 



K. Jap6llica, Coechoeus, so-called, of the gardens, from Japan : a fa- 

 miliar, smooth, ornamental shrubby plant, 4° - 8° high, with lance-ovate thin 

 leaves, and handsome yellow flowers, in summer, usually full-double ; — the 

 natural state, with 5 petals and numerous stamens only recently introduced 

 and rare. 



5. WALDSTEINIA. (Named for F. von Waldstein, an Austrian bota- 

 nist.) 



W. fragarioldes, Baeren Strawbbeey. Wooded banks, chiefly N. ; 

 in aspect and especially in the 3 broadly wedge-shaped leaflets resembles a 

 Strawberry-plaift (as the specific and the popular names denote), but is smooth- 

 jsh and yellow-flowered : in summer, y. 



