. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Spiraea ofulifoUa L. Sp. PI. 489. 1753. Neillia opulifolia Brew. & Wats. Bo't. Cal. i: 171. 1876. Opulaster opulifolius Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 949. 1891. A shrub 3°-l0° high, with recurved branches, glabrous twigs and foliage, the bark peeling off in thin strips. Stipules caducous; leaves peti- oled, ovate-orbicular, obtusely or acutely 3-lobed, cordate, truncate o
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Spiraea ofulifoUa L. Sp. PI. 489. 1753. Neillia opulifolia Brew. & Wats. Bo't. Cal. i: 171. 1876. Opulaster opulifolius Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 949. 1891. A shrub 3°-l0° high, with recurved branches, glabrous twigs and foliage, the bark peeling off in thin strips. Stipules caducous; leaves peti- oled, ovate-orbicular, obtusely or acutely 3-lobed, cordate, truncate or broadly cuneate at the base. l'-2' long, or larger on the young shoots, the lobes irregularly crenate-dentate; corymbs ter- minal, peduncled, nearly spherical, many-flowered, 1-2' broad; pedicels slender, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 5"-8" long; flowers white or purplish; calyx glabrous or somewhat pubescent; 3-S, glabrous, shining, 3"-s" long, obliquely subulate-tipped, twice as long as the calyx. River-ljanks and in rocky places, Quebec to Georgia. Tennessee and Michigan. Jvine. Opulaster australis Rydb., growing in the moun- tains from Virginia to South Carolina, appears to be a race of this species with smaller follicles. Opulaster intermedius Rydb. Nine-bark. Fig. 2214. O. intermedius Rydb. Man. 492. Schneider. P. missoiiriensis Daniels, Univ. M"o. Stud. Sci. i: 291. 1907. A shrub similar to O. opulifolius in aspect, foliage and inflorescence, the leaves mostly nar- rower, and narrowed at the base. Calyx densely stellate-pubescent; follicles 3 or 4, abruptly acu- minate, 3i"-4" long, pennanently stellate-pubes- cent. River-banks and rocky woodlands, southern On- tario and western New York to South Dakota, Illi- nois, Missouri, Arkansas and Colorado. 2. SPIRAEA [Tourn.] L. Sp. Tl. 489. 1753. Shrubs, with alternate simple pinnate or pinnatilid mainly stipulate leaves. Flowers terminal or axillary, racemose, cymose, corymbo
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