302 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
dentately serrate. Flowers in corymbs. (Dee. Prod.) 
A slender-branched shrub. Native country unknown. 
Height 4 ft. to 6 ft. Cultivated in 1820. Flowers 
white ; June and July, Capsule reddish; ripe m Sep- 
tember. 
Varieties. S. flexuosa latifolia Horé.; S. datirica Hort. ; 
S. ulmifolia, 5. carpinifolia, S. detulefolia, in Messrs. 
Loddiges’s collection, are identical with, or very slight 
variations of, this species. 
“8 6. S. (c.) craTEciFo'Lia Lk, 
The Crategus-leaved Spirzea. 
Identification. Lk. Enum., 2. p. 40.; Dec. 
Prod., 2. p. 546. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 518. 
Engraving. Our fig. 499. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves obovate, 
498. S.(c.) flexudsa. obtuse; in the terminal part doubly 
serrate; glabrous, reticulate on the under surface. 
Flowers white, disposed in terminal compound corymbs, 
whose composite parts are rather capitate. (Dec. 
Prod.) An erect shrub. Native country unknown. 
Cultivated in 1823. Flowers white; June and July. ago. 5. (c) crategifolia. 
% 7 S. (c.) BeTULErOo'LIA Pall. The Birch- 
leaved Spirzea. « 
Identification. Pall. Fl. Ross.,1. p.75.3 Dec. Prod., 2. p. 544.; 
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 519. . . 
Symonyines. 2S. corymbosa Raf. in Desv. Journ. ; ? S. crategi- 
Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t.16.; and our fig. 500. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves broadly ovate, serrated, 
glabrous; the petiole very short. Flowers in 
; fastigiate panicles. Carpels 5, upright, glabrous. 
POO ee Peta ene (Dec. Prod.) An erect shrub. Siberia; and 
North America, on the Blue 
Mountains, and in various other 
places on the western coast. 
Height 3 ft. to 6 ft. Introd. in 
1812, Flowers white ; June and 
July. Capsule red ; ripe Sept. 
8. S. ca‘na Waldst. et Kit. The 
hoary-Jeaved Spirea. 
Identification. Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. 
Hung., 3. p. 252. t. 227.3; Camb. Monog. ; 
Dec. Prod., 2. p. 542. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 518. 
Engravings, Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung., 
3. t. 227.3 and our fig. 501. 
Spec. Char, §c. Leaf ovate, 
of about the size of that 
of Salix répens or S. ar- 
géntea, acute, perfectly 
entire, or slightly toothed, 
hoarily villose. Corymbs 
somewhat racemose ; the 
lateral ones peduncled, of 
few flowers, and lax. Se- 
pals spreading. Styles 
thick. Carpels divergent, 
rather villose.(Dec.Prod.) 
A low shrub. Croatia, 
501. Spiree'a cana. 
