WAYFARING TREE 61 
to all insects. The flowers are gathered into a head, and the outer 
flowers have a slightly more enlarged corolla, which in the Guelder 
Rose is developed at the expense of both stamens and _pistil, and 
though not providing pollen nor seeds is useful to man. The stigma 
matures first. The flowers are complete in the Wayfaring Tree. 
The fruit is edible, and the seeds are dispersed by animals. 
This is a lime-loving plant, addicted to a lime soil on chalk or 
oolite, and is also found in hedgerows along macadamized roads. 
A gall-fly, Evzophyes 
tetanothvix, infests it, 
and Aphis viburntz lives 
on it. Two beetles, 
Galeruca viburni, FEus- 
fhalera primule, and 
the moths /eronea 
ruffana, Lithocolletis 
lantanella, Coleophora 
paripennella feed on it. 
Viburnum, Varro, 
is the Latin name for 
the plant. Lantana, 
Dodonzus, may be from 
the Latin verb Zez/Zo, I 
make flexible. 
This shrub is called 
Cottoner, Cotton-tree, 
Coventree, Lithewort, 
Mealy-tree, [wist-wood, 
Wayfaring Tree, Whip- 
crop, Whitewood. It was 
Photo. Dr. Somerville Hastings 
called Twist-wood be- WAYFARING TREE (Viburnum Lantana, L.) 
cause ploughboys twisted 
it into handles for whips, called “twists”. Gerarde invented the name 
Wayfaring Tree. The name Cotton-tree is from its soft foliage. It 
is called Mealy Tree because its leaves are white, mealy, soft, and 
tomentose, or clothed with cotton, and downy. It was dedicated to 
the festival on Whitsuntide. The twigs are used for making bird-lime. 
EssENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS :— 
138. Viburnum Lantana, L.—Shrub, with mealy, flexible, branched 
stems, leaves hoary below, asperous, ovate-serrate, flowers white, in a 
cyme, perfect, berries scarlet, then black. 
