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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 ROSE FAMILY. I. Spiraea latifolia (Ait.) Borkh. American Meadow-sweet. Quaker Lady. Fig. 2215. 5. salicifolia latifolia .-Vit. Hort. Kew. 2 : 198. 1789. i'. 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


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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 ROSE FAMILY. I. Spiraea latifolia (Ait.) Borkh. American Meadow-sweet. Quaker Lady. Fig. 2215. 5. salicifolia latifolia .-Vit. Hort. Kew. 2 : 198. 1789. i'. 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 \ery 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 , cuneate to rounded at the base, pale beneath; stipules deciduous or none; flowers white or pinkish-tinged, 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-meadow. Spice hard- hack. June-Aug. Included in our first edition in the description of the Asiatic 5. 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 6° 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'-zV long, s'-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, Indiana and Missouri. June-Aug.


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