144 Rosacea—Spirea. 
1 to 2 feet high. Leaves interruptedly pinnate, glabrous. 
Flowers cymose, white tinged with pink. Carpels straight, 
pubescent. The double variety of this is one of the best of 
the genus for a border. June and July. 
3. S. Artincus (fig. 81). Goat’s Beard.—A tall vigorous 
plant about 4 feet high, with large tripinnate radical leaves 
and yellowish white dicecious flowers. A native of Central 
Europe and Siberia, flowering in Summer. 
4. S. lobaéta. Queen of the Prairies.—In habit this closely 
resembles the Meadow Sweet. The large leaves are inter- 
ruptedly pinnate with nearly glabrous palmately-divided leaflets, 
the terminal one largest. Flowers in large terminal corymbs, 
bright rosy-red. North America. 
5. S. palmata.—A very beautiful species of recent intro- 
duction. Anerect glabrous plant with palmately-lobed toothed 
leaves and Jarge corymbose panicles of brilliant crimson flowers. 
The stems and leaf-stalks are of the same colour as the flowers, 
and altogether it forms one of the most striking and effective 
species in cultivation. A native of Japan. 
Shrubby Species. 
6. S. bélla.—A pretty species about 3 feet high, with simple 
ovate acute serrate glabrous leaves and terminal spreading 
cymes of rosy-red flowers. A native of Nepal, flowering in 
July. 
7. 8. Fortinet, syn. S. callosa of gardens.--From 4 to 6 
feet high, with terminal flat corymbs of rosy-red flowers. 
Leaves glabrescent, simple, lanceulate, acute, sharply serrate, 
serratures thickened at the tip. .\ vcry handsome and desirable 
Chinese species. 
8. S. grandiflora, syn. Bxochérda grandiflora. glabrous 
shrub with oblong-lanceolate membranous petiolate leaves and 
large white flowers in axillary slender few-flowered racemes. 
This handsome species has much larger flowers than the others, 
the calyx is furnished with two bracts at its base, and the 
carpels are connate. It comes from the North of China, and 
flowers in May. 
9. S. prunifolia.—The variety flore pleno is one of the most 
familiar in gardens. It is a dwarf shrub with small glabrous 
lanceolate leaves connate at the base and irregularly serrated 
on the upper half, and pure white flowers produced in fascicles 
