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fruit is a black, berry-like drupe containing (usually) eight little, 

 seedlike stones. 



The Guelder Rose or Water Elder ( Viburnum Opulus), of the 

 same order, is a flowering shrub, usually six or eight feet high, 

 moderately common in moist woods and copses, especially in the 



THE GUELDER ROSE. 



South, bearing showy cymes of white blossoms in June and July. 

 The cymes are flat-topped, consisting of numerous flowers, the 

 outer of which are much larger, often nearly an inch in diameter, 

 but without stamens or styles, while the others are perfect, with 

 five stamens and three sessile styles. The fruit is a blackish-red, 

 almost globular, slightly-flattened berry, containing a single seed. 

 The cultivated variety of this shrub, known as the Snowball Tree, 

 has large, globular cymes of flowers, all of which are large and 

 barren. 



