. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2, ROSE FAMILY. 245. I. Spiraea latifolia (Ait.) Borkh. American Meadow-sweet. Quaker Lady. Fig. 2215. 5'. salicifolia latifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 198. 1789. 5'. latifolia Borkh. Handb. Forstbot. 1871. 1803. An erect shrub, 2°-6° high, simple, or branched above, nearly glabrous, the stems reddish or purplish. Leaves petioled, broadly oblanceolate or obo
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 2, ROSE FAMILY. 245. I. Spiraea latifolia (Ait.) Borkh. American Meadow-sweet. Quaker Lady. Fig. 2215. 5'. salicifolia latifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 198. 1789. 5'. latifolia Borkh. Handb. Forstbot. 1871. 1803. An erect shrub, 2°-6° high, simple, or branched above, nearly glabrous, the stems reddish or purplish. Leaves petioled, broadly oblanceolate or obovate, glabrous or very nearly so, sharply and rather coarsely serrate, especially above the middle, i'-2' long, 4"-i8" wide, or on young shoots much larger, obtuse or acutish at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, pale beneath; stipules deciduous or none; flowers white or pinkish-tinged, 2"-2" broad, in dense terminal panicles; follicles glabrous. In moist or rocky ground, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, Virginia and western Pennsylva- nia. Called also queen-of-the-raeadow. Spice hard- hack. June-Aug. Included in our first edition in the description of the Asiatic S. salicifolia L., which has pubes- cent inflorescence, pink flowers and narrower ob- long leaves; it is sometimes cultivated and has escaped to roadsides in northern New York. 2. Spiraea alba DuRoi. Narrow-leaved Meadow-sweet. Fig. 2216. S. alba DuRoi, Harbk. Baumz. 2 ; 430. 1772. 5. salicifolia lanceolata T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 415. 1840. A shrub up to 5° high, the twigs yellowish- brown, puberulent when young. Leaves petioled, narrowly oblanceolate to oblong, puberulent on the veins beneath, sharply and mostly finely ser- rate, acute at each end, i'-2j' long, 5"-8" wide; inflorescence narrowly paniculate, densely puberu- lent or tomentulose; petals white, suborbicular about i" long; follicles glabrous. In wet soil, Ontario to New York, North Carolina, Saskatchewan, India
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