ICOSANDRIA, PENTAGYNIA, 2£9 
Common Crab-apple. Sweet-scented Crab-tree. 
This mag’nificent tree, equally interesting for its elegant 
and fragrant flowers, and the fine fruit it yields for preserving, 
may be ranked foremost among the trees of America. On 
the borders of woods, and in fields. Flowers rose-red; very 
numerous. May. 
230. SPIRiEA. Gen. pi. 8fi2. (Bosacece.) 
Calix spreading 5-cleft^ inferior. Petals 5^ 
equals roundish. Stamina numerous ex- 
sorted. Capsules 3 to 1% internally bi- 
valve^ each 1 to 3-seeded.— 
1. S. leaves lanceolate, narrowly serrate, gla-aiba. 
brous; racemes terminal, compound, panicu- 
late; flowers 5-gynous. — Willd. 
S. alba, Ehrb. and Muhl. 
S. salicifolia, Willd. 
Icon. Mill. ic. t. 257. f. 2. 
A fine shrub, about four feet high, often cultivated in gar- 
dens. It grows wild, in thickets on the shores of the Dela- 
ware, Jersey side, on the bank walk from Kaighn’s point to 
the next ferry below. It is abundant in that locality, but I have 
not found it elsewhere. I 2 . June, July. 
2. S. leaves ovate, lobate, duplicate-toothed or opuiifoiia. 
crenate, glabrous ; corymbs terminal, crowded 
with flowers; flowers trigynous, capsules in- 
flated. — Willd. and Pursh. 
Icon. Schmidt. Arb. 32. Rob. ic. 134. Comm. 
Iiort. 1. t. 87. (Pursh.) 
JSTine-bark. 
This very elegant shrub, about six feet high, is familiarly 
known to most persons by the above common name, or by 
that of seven-bark, from the number of lamellae of the bark, 
from the cortex to the liber. Flowers white, numerous. Cap- 
sules bright crimson-red, which renders the shrub exceeding- 
ly ornamental in fruit, as it certainly is in flower. It richly 
merits cultivation in gardens. On the banks of the Delaware, 
^ery abundant ; also near swampy thickets bordering the ri- 
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