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7 TREES AND SHRUBS 

the branches; blunt leaves broadly lance- -shaped, and under surface whiter 
than the upper. 

Spirea Fontenaysi, ? is “a fine-growing species with quite large 
panicles of pure white flowers.” 
Spirzea lanceolata, Potret. (Spirea Reevesiana). Shrub from China. 
Flowers white, handsome, in simple clusters; leaves oblong or sometimes 
3-cleft, serrate-toothed. 
Spirza levigata, Zizmeus. From Siberia. Shrub with oblong, smooth, 
entire leaves ; flowers white, disposed in cylindrical clusters along the branch- 
lets; astringent leaves used in Siberia for tea, and the slender stems utilized by 
the Cossacks for ramrods. 
Spirzea opulifolia, Zzzeus. NINE-BARK. This species is now known as 
Neillia opulifolia, Bentham and Hooker. Native shrub, with the bark sepa- 
rating in thin layers; branches thin and recurved, heart-shaped leaves 3-lobed 
and cut-toothed ; flowers white in flat-topped clusters; purplish pods inflated. 
Spirza prunifolia, ——? PruM-LEAVED SpiRA@A. Slender shrub from 
Japan ; flowers in simple clusters on the branches of the previous year, earlier 
than the true leaves, which are ovate, smoothish above, and with fine, sharp 
teeth. The form cultivated has full double pure white blossoms 4 inch in 
diameter. 
Spirzea salicifolia, Z7zu@us. COMMON MEADOW-SWEET. A smooth 
native shrub, with narrowly oblong somewhat toothed leaves, which are often 
wedge-shaped at base, and white or nearly white flowers crowded in a com- 
pound cluster. Spirzea alba, Du Roz, of the gardens belongs here.. 
Spirza sorbifolia, Zzzn@us. Shrub from Siberia, with compound leaves 
of 17 to 21 lanceolate, taper-pointed, sharply-toothed leaflets ; flowers white, in 
a spreading cluster terminating the branchlets. 
Spirea tomentosa, Zimne@us. HARDHACK or STEEPLE-BusH. Native 
bush, with simple, oblong-toothed leaves, which are white or-brown hairy on 
the under surface; flowers purple, sometimes white in a crowded cylindrical 
mass at the ends of the branches; young shoots also covered with white or 
tawny hair. 
Spirza trilobata, Z7zz@us. Spreading shrub from Siberia; leaves bluntly 
toothed and 3-lobed; flowers white and rather showy. 
Spireza ulmifolia, Scofodi, ELM-LEAVED SpiR@A. A compact shrub 
from Siberia; broadly lance-shaped, deeply serrate, bristly-margined leaves ; 
white down-like flowers in a dense hemispherical terminal cluster. 
Spirzea vaccinefolia, Dox. A small erect shrub from Nepaul, with acute 
smooth elliptical leaves, which are toothed at the apex and glaucous on the 
under surface, the terminal flat-topped clusters few-flowered and downy. 
RUBIACE. Madder Family. 
Usually shrubs. Calyx and 2- to 5-celled ovary united, stamens equal in 
number to the lobes of the corolla and on its tube; leaves opposite, entire, 




