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name of Pliant Mealy Tree; and according to Withering, the bark 

 of the root is used to mai<c birdlime. 



There is a variety in North America with larger leaves, of a bright 

 green; and with variegated leaves in nurseries. 



The second species is a small bushy tree, smooth in all its parts, 

 and very nuich branched: branches oj)posite, round: the leaves 

 subcordale, Avith three great une(jually serrate lobes, veined, paler 

 beneath; their petioles bearing several cup-like glands lowards the 

 top, and a pair or Iwo of erect linear appendages, scarcely to be 

 called stipules, near the base: the cymes terminating, solitary, com- 

 posed of many Avhite flowers, radiant; the inner perfect, small, re- 

 sembhng those of Elder, those in the margin abortive, consisting 

 merely of a large irregular flat petal without any organs of iVuctitica- 

 tion: the stigmas nearly sessile, close together: the berries drooping, 

 gl()l)ular, crowned with five very small scales of the calyx, red, very 

 succulent. It is a native of Europe, flowering early in June; the 

 bright red berries ripen about September, and towards the middle of 

 OctolKM' the leaves assume a beautiful pink colour. 



There is an American variety, which is a shrub, that has the 

 tvvigs of a shining red colour, and which rises eight or ten feet high, 

 with many side branches, covered with a smooth purple bark: the 

 leaves cordate-ovate, entling in acute points, deeply serrate, having 

 many strong veins, and standing upon very long slender footstalks. 



There is another beautiful variety common in plantations under 

 the name of Guelder Rose, bearing large round bunches of abortive 

 flowers only, which rises to the height of eighteen or twenty feet if 

 permitted to stand: tlic stem becomes large; the branches grow 

 irregular, and are covered with a gray bark: the leaves are divided 

 into three or iour lotjcs, somewhat like those of the Maple; they are 

 about three inches long, and two and a half broad, jagged on their 

 edges, and of a light green colour: the flowers come out in a large 

 corymb, are very white, and, being all neuters, are barren; from 

 their extreme whiteness, and swelling out into a globular form, some 

 country people have given this shrub the name of Snow-ball Tree. 

 It is also sometimes called Elder Rose and Rose Elder, 



