1036 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cordate, rounded, finely ser- 
rated, veiny, clothed beneath, but more sparingly on 
the upper side, with starry mealy pubescence, like 
that on the branches, petioles, and peduncles. Cymes 
pedunculate, broad, flat, of numerous crowded white 
flowers. Bracteas several, small, acute. A low 
treet with copious, opposite, round, pliant, mealy 
branches. Under side of leaves and branches white 
from mealy down. Berries compressed in an early 
state, red on the outer side, yellow, and finally 
black, with a little mealy astringent pulp. (Don’s 
Mill, iii. p. 441.) 
Varieties. = 
a2 % V.L. 2 grandifolia Ait., V. L. latifolia Lodd. Cat., has leaves larger 
than those of the species, and, according to some, ought to constitute 
a separate species itself. (See No. 10.) 
% ¥ V. L.3 foliis variegatis Lodd. Cat. has leaves variegated with white 
and yellow. 
Description, §c. A shrub, or low tree; anative of Europe and the West of 
Asia, in low woods and hedges, and chiefly on calcareous soils. In a state 
of culture, in good free soil, it forms a handsome, durable, small tree, 18 ft. or 
20 ft. in height; with large broad leaves, and ample heads of white flowers, 
which are succeeded by fruit, at first green, afterwards red, and finally black. 
The fruit is greedily eaten by birds, is not unpleasant to the taste, and is 
considered by some as refreshing and astringent. The leaves, in autumn, 
die off of a fine deep red colour. Dr. Withering says that the bark of the 
root is used to make birdlime. The tree grows rapidly when young, often 
producing shoots 5 ft. or 6 ft. long, from stools in coppice woods ; but becoming 
stationary when it has attained the height of 12 ft. or 15 ft., which it does in 
5 or 6 years. In Germany, the shoots of one year are employed in basket- 
making, and for tying faggots and other packages; and those of two or three 
years old are used for tubes to tobacco-pipes. The wood is white and hard, 
and may be employed for various purposes in turning and cabinet-making. In 
Switzerland, the fruit is used for making ink. The following beautiful lines on 
this tree are by William Howitt. 

‘© Wayfaring tree! what ancient claim 
Hast thou to that right pleasant name ? 
Was it that some faint pilgrim came 
Unhopedly to thee, 
In the brown desert’s weary way, 
Mid toil and thirst’s consuming sway, 
And there, as ’neath thy shade he lay, 
Blest the wayfaring tree. 
© Or is it that thou lovest to show 
Thy coronets of fragrant snow, 
Like life’s spontaneous joys that flow 
In paths by thousands beat ? 
Whate’er it be, I love it well; 
A name, methinks, that surely fell 
From poet, in some evening dell, 
Wandering with fancies sweet.” 
Book of the Seasons, p. 115, 
Plants may be raised from seed, which may be procured in abundance from 
coppices and hedges, and, to save room, should be laid up in a heap in the rot- 
ing-ground, like haws; for, if sown immediately after being gathered, they 
will not come up for 18 or 20 months. 
2 ¥ 9, V.(L.) uantanor'pes Michx. The Lantana-like Viburnum, or 
American Wayfaring Tree. 
Identification. _Michx. F). Bor. Amer., 1. p.179.; Dec. Prod., 4. p.326.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. 
p. 280.; Lodd, Bot. Cab., t. 1070. ; Don’s Mill., 5, p. 441. 
Synonymes. ? V. Lantana @ grandifodlia Adt. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., vol. 1. p. 392.3 V. andifolium 
pee in Rees’s Cycl., No.14.; ¥V. Lantana @ canadénsis Pers. Ench., 1. p. 327.; Hobble Bush, 
mer, 
Engravings. Bot. Cab., t. 1070.; and our fig. 786. 
