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27. ROSACE.E. 
wliidi is densely woolly, ajipcaring at the same time with the 
llowers. — Woods and thickets. T. IV. V. Wild Plum. 
4. P. Padus (L.) ; arborescent, 1. ohovate-liinceolate finely 
serrate glabrous, in pendulous racemes, fr. roun(hsh-oblong. — 
E. B. 108.3. — A small tree. L. minutely doubly serrate. FI. 
white, numerous, in a lax raceme. Fr. black, harsh and bitter, 
with a corrugated nut. — Woods and hedges. T. V. Bird Cherry. 
5. P. Avium (L.); arborescent, 1. drooping oblong-obovate 
suddenly cuspidate inciso-serrate downy beneath, calyx-tube con- 
tracted below the entire sepals, “ fr. heartshaped.” — E. B. 70S. 
— A tree of 20 — 00 feet high. Outer scales of the leaf-buds de- 
flexed. Flower-buds not leafy'. FI. in umbels. Pet. bifid, 'with 
a minute claw. “Fr. firm, bitter, black or red.” Borr. — Woods. 
T. V. Wild Cherry. 
6. P. Cerasus (L.) ; fruticose, 1. not drooping oblong-obovate 
or ovate-lanceolate doubly crenate-serrate glabrous, calyx-tube 
not contracted, fruit round. — E. B. S. 2860. Cerasus austera 
height, p. 524. — An erect bushy shrub, 0 — 8 feet high. Um- 
bels scattered. Outer scales of the leaf-buds erect. Inner scales 
of the flower-buds leafy. Sep. crenate-serrate. Pet. subemar- 
ginate, with a claw. “ Fr. juicy, acid, always red.” — Hedges. 
Sh. V. E. 
Tribe II. Spiraea. 
2. SpiRiEA Linn. 
fl. S. salicifolia (L.) ; shrubby, stip. 0, 1. elliptic-lanceolate 
unequally serrate glabrous, racemes terminal compound, stam. 
longer than the petals. — E. B. 1468. — A shrub of 4 — 5 feet high 
with smooth round wandlike branches. Fl. flesh-coloured, in 
dense erect racemes. — Damp woods in the north. Sh. VII. 
E. S. *1. 
2. S. Ulmaria (L.); herbaceous, stip. rounded toothed, 1. in- 
terruptedly ])innate, leaflets ovate undivided; the terminal one 
larger palmately 0 — 5-lobed, fl. in compound proliferous cymes, 
caps, glabrous contorted. — E. B. 960. St. 18. 8. — St. about 3 
feet high, angular, branched. L. with a few large serrated leaf- 
lets and very minute intermethate ones, downy beneath. Pe- 
duncles downy. Fl. yellowish, sweetscented. Pet. roundish.- — 
Meadows and by water. P. VI. — VIII. Meadow-sweet. 
3. S. Filipendula (L.); herbaceous, stip. of the root leaves 
linear acute enthe, those of the stem rounded and cut, 1. inter- 
ruptedly pinnate, leaflets all oblong deeply cut and serrate, fl. in 
a panicled cj'me, caps, hairy parallelly adpressed. — E. B. 284. 
St. 18. 7-- — St. 1 — 1| foot high, round, simple, panicled at the 
top. L. mostly radical, s])reading ; leaflets small, numerous, in- 
