. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXVI. iJOSA^CEiE: .SPIR^ A. 309 j» 23. S. l^iviga'ta L. The smooth-leaved Spirsea. Idmlification. Lin. Mant, 244.; Camb. Monog.; Dec. Frod, 2. p. M4.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 619. Synonymes. ;is Zaxm. Nov. Act Petrop. p. 555. t. 29. f. 2.; S. alt&ica PaU. Ft. Boas. 1.
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXVI. iJOSA^CEiE: .SPIR^ A. 309 j» 23. S. l^iviga'ta L. The smooth-leaved Spirsea. Idmlification. Lin. Mant, 244.; Camb. Monog.; Dec. Frod, 2. p. M4.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 619. Synonymes. ;is Zaxm. Nov. Act Petrop. p. 555. t. 29. f. 2.; S. alt&ica PaU. Ft. Boas. 1. p. 27a Engravings. Nov. Act. Petrop., t. 29. f. 2.; Pall. FL Koss., 23.; and our Jig. 522. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves obovate-oblong, perfectly smooth, entire, sessile, tipped with a small mucro. Branchlets of the panicle cyhndrical. Bracteas linear, rather shorter than the calyx. Lobes of the calyx triangular, ascending. {Dec. Prod.) A spreading shrub. Siberia, in valleys at the foot of the more lofty of the Altaian Mountains. Height 2 ft. to 4 ft. Introd. in 1774. Flowers white ; May and June. Capsule reddish ; ripe in September. A very interesting and handsome species, with a habit exceedingly dissimilar to that of spiraeas in 522. S. lieTigktm, ^ 24. S. AViiEBO^'iAiL Smith. The White-Beam-tree-leaved Spirasa. Identification. Smith, in Kees's Cyclop., vol. 33.; Bot. Reg., ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 644.; Don't Engfravings. Bot. Keg., t. 1365.; and omfigs. 623, 524. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves elliptical, oblong, more or less lobed, toothed, pale, villose beneath. Panicle villose. {Dec. Prod.) An erect bushy shrub. North America, principally on the north-west coast. Height 6 ft. to 8 ft. Introduced in 1827. Flowers white ; June and July. Capsule reddish ; ripe in September. A free-growing dense bush, prolific both in leaves and flowers ; and, as the latter appear at a season when the flowering of . shrubs IS comparatively rare, it is justly 5,4. considered as a mos
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