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clasping base, the uppermost tapering or scarcely connate at base; 

 corolla purplish to yellowish or greenish; fruits usually 6-8 at each 

 node, dull orange-yellow. Rich woods. May and June. 



VIBURNUM 



Shrubs, with simple leaves and 

 white flowers in flat-topped clusters. 

 Corolla spreading, deeply 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5. Fruit a i-celled, i-seeded 

 drupe with soft pulp. 



V. acerifolium, MAPLE-LEAVED VIBUR- 

 NUM. Shrubs becoming 1.5 m. high; 

 leaves downy beneath, 3-ribbed from the 

 rounded or subcordate base, somewhat 

 3-lobed, the pointed lobes diverging and 

 unequally toothed ; fruit crimson, turn- 

 ing purplish-black. Rocky woods. May 

 and June. 



V. pubescens, ARROW-WOOD. Low, straggling shrub; leaves short- 

 petioled or subsessile, ovate or oblong ovate, cordate at base, acute 



Triosteum perfoliatum, Horse 

 gentian. 



Viburnum acerifolium, Maple- 

 leaved viburnum. 



or taper-pointed, coarsely 

 toothed, downy beneath ; 

 fruit dark purple. Rocky 

 grounds. May and June. 



V. Lentago, SWEET VI- 

 BURNUM. Shrub or tree, 

 becoming 9 m. high; leaves 



Viburnum Lentago, Sweet viburnum. 



