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POPULAR FLORA. 



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2. Sweet V. or Sheep-berry. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined 



footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Ltntago. 



3. Blacs-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. V. prunifblium. 



4. Arrow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straiglit veins, 



smooth ; cymes small, stalked ; fruit small, bright blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. dcniaium. 



5. ^Lvple-leaved V. or DockMackie. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, 



downy beneath; cymes long-stalked. Rocky woods: a shrub. V. acerifblium. 



* * Flowers at the margin of the cyme neutral, consisting merely of a large and flat corolla, white 



(just as in Hydrangea, p. 69, and Fig. 169.) 



6. Snowball V. or Cranberry-tree. Leaves with 3 pointed lobes, smooth ; fruit red, sour.- 



Swamps, N. — The Snowball-tree or Gueldek-Rose is a cultivated state of this, with all the 

 flowers become neutral. T'. Opulus. 



7. Hobblebush V. Branches long and spreading, often taking root; leaves large, round-ovate or 



hearf-shaped, many-veined, scurfy beneath; cyme sessile, very broad; fruit red, turning blackish. 

 Damp woods, N. V. laniaiioules. 



47. MADDER FAMILY. Order RUBIACE^E. 



Well distinguished by its regular monopetalous corolla, bearing 4 or 5 stamens alternate 

 with its lobes, and itself borne on the ovary (the calyx being coherent) ; and the leaves 

 in whorls, or else opposite and with stipules between them. 



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833. P:ece»f Madder, in flower. 39f. Half of a flower, inagnified. 395. Y011115 fruits. S9S. Rine f.uit. 



3J7. Coniiiioii Ll.itli ibS Sectiua of a Cower Icii^tliwisc, iiuigiiifieii, i-id iLu coiollu laid o^eii. bS<9. Corolla of another flower Jaid 

 opiin, and the style. 



