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

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

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

 abundance. 



§ 2. Shrubby, with pinnate 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 pinnately-compound leaves, no stipules, and dioecious Jlouters. 



S. Artmcus, Goatsbeard. Rich wOods fi-om Now 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 

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

 pound panicle ; petals narrow ; pedicels reflexed in fruit. 



§ 4. Herbs, ivith interruptedly pinnate leaves, conspicuous stipules, perfect fiowers, 

 reflexed sepals and petals sometimes 4, and 5-12 little 1 - 3-seeded pods. 



S. Filip^ndula, Dropwort. 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. Ulm^ia, English Meadow-Sweet. Cult, from Europe; l°-3° 

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

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

 sweet-scented flowers very numerous and crowded in a compound cyme at the 

 naked summit of the stems ; little pods twisting spirally. 



S. lob&ta, QnEEN-OF-THE-PfiAiKiE. Wild in meadows and prairies W., 

 also cult. ; snjooth 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. GILLENIA, INDIAN PHYSIC, AMERICAN IPECAC. (Named 

 for a Dr. Gillen or Gillenius.) El. summer, y. 



G. trifoll&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 ro.sy-tinged flowers loosely panicled on the slender branches. 



G. stipuliicea, Large-stipuled I. or American Ipecac. Open woods, 

 W. : has the lanceolate leaflets and leaf-lik^tipules deeply cut and toothed -. 

 otherwise like the other. 



4. KEBRIA. (Named for Bellenden Ker, a British botanist.) 



K. Jap6nica, Corchorbs, 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. 



6. WALDSTEiNIA. (Named for F. von Waldstein, an Austrian bota- 

 nist.) 

 W. fragarioldes, Barren Strawberry. Wooded bants, chiefly N. ; 



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



Strawberiyrplant (as the speoiflc and the popular names denote), but is smooth- 



ish and yfillotv-flowered : in summer, y. 



