. 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 3. ROSE FAMILY. 247 3. ARUNCUS [L.] Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 295. 1763. Tall perennial herbs, with large 2-3-pinnate leaves, stipules minute or wanting, and very numerous white dioecious flowers in panicled spikes. Calyx mostly 5-lobed. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes. Stamens numerous, inserted on the calyx; filaments filiform. Pistils usually 3, alternate w
. 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 3. ROSE FAMILY. 247 3. ARUNCUS [L.] Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 295. 1763. Tall perennial herbs, with large 2-3-pinnate leaves, stipules minute or wanting, and very numerous white dioecious flowers in panicled spikes. Calyx mostly 5-lobed. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes. Stamens numerous, inserted on the calyx; filaments filiform. Pistils usually 3, alternate with the calyx-lobes. Follicles glabrous, at length reflexed, usually â 2-seeded. Seeds minute, not shining. [Greek, goat's-beard.] About 3 species, the following typical one widely dis- tributed in the north temperate zone, one in northwest- ern America, the other Japanese. I. Aruncus Aruncus (L.) Karst. Goat's- beard. Fig. 2221. Spiraea Aruncus L. Sp. PI. 490. 1753. Aruncus Sylvester Kostel. Ind. Hort, Prag. 15. Name only. 1844. Aruncus Aruncus Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 779. 1880-83. Glabrous or pubescent; stem erect, somewhat branched, 3°-7° high. Leaves long-petioled, the lower 1° long or more, pinnate, 3-7-foliolate; leaflets ovate, lanceolate or oval, thin, stalked or sessile, acuminate or acute at the apex, rounded, slightly cordate or sometimes narrowed at the base, sharply doubly serrate or incised, i'-^' long; spikes slender, elongated, erect or spreading; flowers i"-2" wide; follicles short. In rich woods, mountains of Pennsylvania to Iowa, south to Georgia and Missouri, and in northern Europe and Asia. Consists of several races, differing in pubes- cence and slightly in the size and shape of the fruit. Ascends to 4200 ft. in North Carolina. 4. SCHIZONOTUS Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. 81. 1830. Shrubs, with odd-pinnate leaves, the large stipules conspicuous. Flowers perfect, in terminal panicles. Calyx-tube hemispheric, its 5 lobes imbricated, ea
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