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Willoio S. (S. salicifolia, Eng. Bot. t. 1468), with simple oblong or 

 lanceolate leaves, and small crowded panicles of pink flowers, has been 

 admitted into onr Floras as occurring in several parts of northern 

 England and southern Scotland, but apparently only where it has 

 been planted. It is a native of eastern Europe and Hussian Asia. 



1. Meadow Spirsea. Spiraea Ulmaria, Linn. (Fig. 296.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 960. Me udoiv- sweet.) 



Stock perennial, with erect, rather 

 stout, annual stems, 2 or 3 feet high, 

 usually glabrous and reddish. Leaves 

 large, pinnate, with 5 to 9 ovate or 

 broadly lanceolate segments often 2 or 

 3 inches long, irregularly toothed, green 

 above, soft and whitish underneath, the 

 terminal one deeply divided into three ; 

 besides which are several smaller seg- 

 ments along the common stalk. Stipules 

 broad and toothed. Flowers small, of a 

 yellowish- white, sweet-scented, and very 

 numerous, in compound corymbose 

 cymes at the summit of the stems. Cap- 

 sules 5 to about 8, very small, and more 

 or less spirally twisted. 



In meadows, on the banks of ponds 

 and ditches, etc., throughout Europe and 

 Hussian Asia, except the extreme north. 

 Common in Britain. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 296. 



2. Common Spirsea. Spirsea Filipendula, Linn. (Fig. 297.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 284. Dropioort.) 



Stock perennial, the fibrous roots swollen here and there into oblong 

 tubers. Stems erect, 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves chiefly radical or in 

 the lower part of the stem, 3 to 5 inches long, with numerous (above 

 20) small, oval, oblong or lanceolate segments, deeply toothed or pin- 

 nately lobed, gradually smaller as they near the stem, green and 

 glabrous, or slightly downy. Stipules broad, adhering to the leaf- 

 stalk nearly their whole length. Flowers like those of the meadow 



