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26. EOSACEiE. 
Suborder II. Rosece. Tribe I. Spiroeidc^. 
2. Spir^'a Linn. 
%!. S. salicifolia (L.) ; shrubby, stip. 0, 1. elliptic-lanceolate 
unequally serrate glabrous, racemes terminal compound, stam. 
exceeding the petals. — E. B. 1468. — A shrub 4 — 5 feet high 
with smooth round wandlike branches. Fl. flesh-coloured, in 
dense erect racemes. — Damp places in the North and in Wales, 
rare. Sh. VII. E. S. 
2. S. Ulmdria (L.) ; herbaceous, stip. rounded, toothed, 1. in- 
terruptedly pinnate, leaflets ovate undivided, the terminal one 
larger palmately 3 — 5-lobed, fl. in compound cymes, caps, 
glabrous twisted together.— B. 960. St. 18. 8.— St. about 
3 feet high, angular, branched. L. with a few large serrate 
leaflets and very minute intermediate ones ; st. 1. usually downj" 
beneath. Cymes with long side branches. Fl. yellowish, 
sweet-scented. Pet. roundish. [p. dejiudfJta (Btenn.); st.-l. green aud 
glabrous on under surface. ] — Meadows and by water. P. VI. — VIII. 
Meadow -sweet. E. S. I. 
3. .S'. Filipen'dtda (L.) ; herbaceous, stip. of the root-leaves 
linear acute entire, those of the stem rounded and cut, 1. inter- 
ruptedly pinnate, leaflets all oblong deeply cut and serrate, fl. in 
a panicled cyme, caps, hairy, straight but adpressed. — E. B. 284. 
St. 18. 7. — Koot producing knobs. St. 1 — li foot high, round, 
simple, panicled at the top. L. mostly radical, spreading ; 
leaflets small, many, intermediate ones small. Fl. yellowish- 
white tinged with red. Pet. obovate. — Dry chalky and lime- 
stone pastures. P. V. — VII. Dropivort. E. S. I. 
Tribe II. Sanguisorbeoe. 
3. SANGmsoR'BA Linn. Great Burnet. 
1. S.officinrUis CL.); spikes ovate-oblong, stam. about equal- 
ling calyx, leaflets cordate-oblong. — E. B. 1312. — L. pinnate, 
glabrous ; leaflets about 13, stalked, opposite, blunt, coarsely 
serrate. Spikes rarely long, cylindrical. Fr. oblong, winged 
chiefly in its upper half, transverse section terete, 4 wings thin. 
—Damp meadows. P. VI.— VIII. E. S. I. 
