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NEW SYLVA. 
terete flexuose, leaves with 11 to 21 folioles 
broad lanceol. acuminate duplicate serrate, sti- 
pules oblong entire, flowers paniculate crowded, 
panicle oblong, bracteoies lanceol. equal to the 
short clavate pedicels — Sibiria and New Sibiria 
in N. W, America, a large shrub, with fine in- 
carnate odorous flowers, folioles 1 or 2 inches 
long. My specimens have racemose panicles 
before anthesis, becoming glomerate in full 
bloom. 
676. Basilima pygmea Raf. Sp. sorbif. var. 
pygmea Pallas fl. t. 25. Quite different from 
the last by folioles broader less acum. ovate 
lanceol. laciniate and flowers corymbose — Mts. 
of Sibiria and probably in boreal America, a 
small dwarf shrub. Not seen but the figure of 
Pallas is strikingly different. It must not be 
blended with the Sorbus pumila of Origon, that 
has edible berries. 
Monograph of HYDRANGEA. 
Linneus had only one species, our botanists 
have gradualy increased them to 4; but I shall 
still further increase them to 16. They are all 
shrubs growing in mountains and hills on rocks 
and near streams, blossoms estival. The Ge- 
nus had been united to the Saxifragides, but 
Lindley dreamt that it was to be united to the 
Caprifoliacea ! with berries and monopetal co- 
rollas ! It really belongs to the Natural family 
of Dicekacea in the Nat, Order Ascadxa, 
which includes all the Saxifragides with ovary 
and capsule coalescent or inferior. It includes 
two subgenera. 
Apleria. Flowers uniform consimilar. 
Megastexra. Flowers dissimilar, the exterior 
enlarged neutral radial, as in Opulus, 3-4fid un- 
equal 
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