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; 2nd ed. . 6. Spiraea japonica L. f. Japanese Spiraea. Fig. japonica L. f. Supp!. 2(cailosa Thunb. Fl. Jap. 1784. A shrub 2j°-4J high, the twngs purplish-brown,finely villous when young. Leaves petioled, ovateto lanceolate, 4 long or less, J-iJ wide, glabrousabove, somewhat pubescent beneath, acute or acumi-nate at the apex, sharply serrate; inflorescence com-poun
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; 2nd ed. . 6. Spiraea japonica L. f. Japanese Spiraea. Fig. japonica L. f. Supp!. 2(cailosa Thunb. Fl. Jap. 1784. A shrub 2j°-4J high, the twngs purplish-brown,finely villous when young. Leaves petioled, ovateto lanceolate, 4 long or less, J-iJ wide, glabrousabove, somewhat pubescent beneath, acute or acumi-nate at the apex, sharply serrate; inflorescence com-pound, corymbose, 2-6 broad, finely villous; calyxturbinate, pubescent, its lobes triangular: petals pinkor rose, obovate, I J long; follicles glabrous. _ Escaped from gardens. Connecticut to oi eastern Asia. Spiraea prunifolia Sieb. & Zucc. a low shrub withlateral umbels of white, commonly double flowers 5-6broad, is much planted for ornament, and has escapedto roadsides in Connecticut and Massachusetts. It isnative of Japan and Lhina. Spiraea chamaedrifolia also Asiatic, and muchplanted, has simple terminal corymbs of white flowersand small obovate leaves dentate above the middle. It has escaped to roadsides in New York. Genus 3. ROSE FAMILY. 247 3.
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