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lobes with large teeth, very soft with minute down underneath. 

 Cy.nes on long peduncles. Dry woods, Roxbury. June, July. 



VIBURNUM LANTANOIDES. Alx. Hobble bush. 



Petioles and nerv 7 es pulverulent and downy ; leaves 



roundish-heart shaped, abruptly acuminate, unequally 



serrate ; cymes radiate, closely sessile ; fruit ovate. 



Young leaves roundish and meaiy in appearance, older leaves 

 very large. Outer florets of the cj'me very large, white, hypo- 

 crateriform and barren, the segments obovate ; inner florets 

 small, bell shaped, fertile, the segments ovate. Berries large. 

 In old woods, Princeton, Jaffrey, New-Hampshire. June. 



VIBURNUM OXYCOCCOS. Pursh. Tree Cranberry. 



Leaves three lobed, three nerved, lobes divaricate, 

 acuminate, toothed ; petioles glandular ; cymes radi- 

 ate. 



Leaves paler underneath with large, unequal, bluntish teeth. 

 Petioles smooth with about two glands in front at the base of the 

 leaf. Outer florets barren, with large white hypocrateriform 

 corollas. Fruit large, red, ripening late, and remaining after 

 the leaves have fallen, intensely acid and somewhat bitter. In 

 Lancaster, New-Hampshire, and in Maine. Juty. 



The different species of Viburnum are fine flowering shrubs, 

 and with the Elder, next described, constitute a principal orna- 

 ment of our woods and thickets during the first part of summer. 



127. SAMBUCUS. 



SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS. L. Common Elder. 



Cymes five parted ; leaves nearly bipinnate, stem 

 shrubby. Willd. 



Michaux says he could observe no difference between this 

 species and the Sambucus nigra of Europe 1 , except in size, the 

 latter being a tree, the former a shrub. Leaves pinnate, the low- 

 er leafets double or ternate, and all of them oblong-oval, sharply 

 serrate, tapering to a very long and acute point. Flowers white : 

 berries blackish : both considered medicinal. June, July. 



