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plant is cathartic and emetic. The inner part has been recommended as a diuretic, 

 but is too powerful for safe administration. The leaves boiled in wine are applied in 

 France to tumours and bruises. Haller used an oil expressed from the seeds for 

 affections of the joints. The berries yield a violet dye. The foliage is not eaten by 

 cattle, nor will moles come where the leaves are laid. They are said to drive away 

 mice from granaries, and the Silesians strew them where their pigs lie, under the idea 

 that they prevent disease. The plant is sufficiently active to be poisonous in large 

 quantities, and should not be administered by ignorant persons. 



GENUS III.—Y I B U R N U M. Idn?i. 



Calyx-limb of 5 small teeth. Corolla with a short campanulate 

 or cylindrical tube and 5 spreading blunt lobes, or rotate. 

 Stamens 5. Stigmas 3, distinct or combined into one. Eruit a 

 juicy drupe with a single stone containing a single seed. 



Herbs, with simple entire toothed or palmately-lobed leaves, and 

 white flowers in flat compound corymbose cymes. 



According to Vaillant, the name of this genus of plants is derived from the Latin 

 ■word vieo, I tie, on account of the pliability of the branches of some of the species. 

 Viburna, in the plural, appears to have been applied by the ancients to any shrubs that 

 •were used for binding or tying. 



SPECIES I. -VIBURNUM OPULUS. Lmn. 

 r^ 4VV^ y Plate DCXXXIX. 



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Heich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXXI. Figs. 3, 4. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 12 lo. 



Leaves deciduous, stalked, roundish in outline, 3-lobed, with the 

 lobes acuminate, coarsely toothed and ciliated, finely pubescent, 

 but not furfuraceous beneath. Petioles with adnate stipuliform 

 appendages in the form of 1 (or sometimes 2) linear processes on 

 each side a little above the base. Plowers in stalked sub-umbellate 

 compound corymbose cymes, with the branches glabrous ; exterior 

 flowers of the cyme neuter, with the corolla much enlarged, rotate, 

 with obovate contiguous segments. 



In woods, thickets, hedges, and banks of streams. Kather 

 common, and generally distributed, extending North to the counties 

 of Uoss and Aberdeen. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



A shrub 3 to 6 feet high or more, with grey bark. Branches 

 slender, flexuous, with elevated lines and numerous lenticels on the 

 smooth yellowish-grey bark. Leaves 1^ to 3 inches long, and 

 nearly as broad, divided into 3 lobes, of which the terminal one is 



