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NIEILLIA. 



16 FILIPENDULA Erndt. Virid. Warsaw, 43. 



Perennial herbs with palmately lobed or pinnate, alternate 

 leaves, foliaceoas persistent stipules and numerous small flowers 

 in terminal compound panicles or cymes. Flowers perfect, ca- 

 lyx 5-cleft, sometimes only 3- or 4-cleft, persistent. Disk obso- 

 lete. Petals 5, rarely fewer. Stamens in 2-3 rows on the calyx- 

 tube. Carpels 6-10, distinct, often stipitate, with two pendulous 

 ovules, becoming one-seeded achenes. Stigma capitate, usually 

 large. Seed small with thin membranous testa. 



F. occid en talis. Spir&a occidental-is Watson. Stems simple, 2-6 feet 

 high, glabrous or nearly so : stipules broadly ovate, acute, laciniately 

 toothed, 4-6 lines long or more; leaves ample, 5-7-lobed, the lobes acute or 

 acuminate, doubly lacerate-toothed, appressed-silky on the veins beneath, 

 3-6 inches long; petioles stout, with 1-5 pairs of small ovate to linear-lance- 

 olate toothed leaflets below the large terminal one : inflorescence a com- 

 pound cymose panicle, pubescent with short somewhat appressed hairs, 

 calyx-lobes subulate, twice as long as the tube, smooth or nearly so, soon 

 reflexed : petals white, elliptical, sessile, 2-3 lines long, carpels about 9, 

 erect, narrowly lanceolate, long-stipitate, beaked by the elongated style, 

 villous on the margins from the summit of the style to the base. Rocky 

 banks of the Trask river, Tillamook county, Oregon. 



17 NEILLIA Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. 228. 

 Shrubs with simple toothed or lobed alternate leaver, mem- 

 branaceous deciduous stipules and rather large white flowers in 

 simple terminal corymbs. Flowers perfect. Disk wholly co- 

 herent to the tube of the calyx. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent. Pet- 

 als 5, rounded, sessile. Stamens numerous, perigynous. Carpels 

 1-5, distinct, often stipitate, becoming membranaceous, inflated 

 pods. Ovules few to several, some ascending, some pendulous. 

 Seeds with shining stony testa and distinct albumen. 



X. capitata Greene Pitt, ii, 28. N. opulifolia var. mollis Brewer and 

 Watson. A shrub 3-20 feet high with slender spreading or recurved 

 branches and ash-colored shreddy bark : stipules linear, 5-6 lines long, re- 

 motely toothed, caducous; leaves roundish, often subcordate, 3-lobed, 

 doubly serrate, 1-3 inches long on slender petioles, stellately 

 soft-pubescent beneath, smooth or nearly so above: flowers on long 

 slender pedicels in simple hemispherical tomentose corymbs; bracts all 

 scarious ; calyx-lobes triangular, apiculate, as long as the tube, shorter 

 than the orbicular petals pubescent on both sides : carpels 2-5, at length 

 4-6 lines long,glabrous, 2-4-seeded; seeds slenderly and obliquely pyriform, 

 a line long. Common along streams and moist places. Brit. Columbia to 

 California and the Rocky Mountains. 



N. Torreyi Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xi, 136 A small shrub, barely 

 2 feet high, erect, scarcely surculose, freely branching: leaves of rather 

 deltoid-ovate outline, incisely 3-lobed to the middle, the lobes nearly 

 equal, the whole with slight secondary lobes, these crenately or incisely 

 toothed, about 1 inch long: flowers few, in usually compound corymbs; 

 petals comparatively large, often rose-tinted; carpels mostlv 2, coherent to 

 above the middle, but little longer than the calyx, divergent at apex, only 

 slightly inflated, minutely tomentose, 1-seeded : seeds obovoid In dry 

 soils on rocky slopes at 8000-9000 feet elevation, Idaho to Nevada and the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



N. malvacea Greene Pitt', ii, 30. "Shrubs 3-5 feet high, stout, the 

 shoots erect: leaves digitately 5-veined, with or without 3 broad and 



