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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
CAPRIFOLIACEZ 
VIBURNUM LENTAGO. 
Sheepberry. Nannyberry. 
LEAVES ovate, acuminate, their petioles usually undulate-margined or winged. 
Winter-buds long-pointed. 
Viburnum Lentago, Linneus, Spec. 268 (1753). — Mar- 
shall, Arbust. Am. 161. — Du Roi, Harbk. Bawmz. ii. 
485. — Moench, Béwme Jess. 140, t. 8. — Wangenheim, 
Nordam. Holz. 100. — Walter, FZ. Car. 116. — Willde- 
now, Berl. Bawmz. 402; Spec. i. pt. ii. 1491; Hnwm. 
327. —Schmidt, Oestr. Bauwmz. iti. 48, t. 176. — Nowveau 
Duhamel, ii. 129.— Schkuhr, Handb. i. 234. — Michaux, 
Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 178.— Persoon, Syn. i. 327.— Poiret, 
Lam. Dict. viii. 658. — Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i. 344. — 
Du Mont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 2, iv. 341. — Pursh, 
Fl. Am. Sept. i. 201. — Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 70. — Nut- 
tall, Gen. i. 202. — Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 37. — Roemer & 
Schultes, Syst. vi. 637. — Elliott, Sk. i. 365. — Torrey, 
Fl. N. Y. i. 305.— Watson, Dendr. Brit. i. 21, t. 21. — 
Sprengel, Syst. i. 934. — Guimpel, Otto & Hayne, Abdild. 
Holz. 125, t. 102. — De Candolle, Prodr. iv. 325. — 
Hooker, FU. Bor.-Ai. i. 279. — Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 440, — 
Rafinesque, Alsograph. Am. 55. — Spach, Hist. Vég. viii. 
311. — Dietrich, Syn. ii. 1011. — Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. 
Am. ii, 15.— Emerson, Trees Muss. 564. — Darlington, 
Fi. Cestr. ed. 3, 115. — Orsted, Videnskab. Medd. Sra 
Nat. For. Kjobenh. 1860, 301.— Chapman, #7. 171. — 
Engelmann, Trans. St. Louis Acad. ii. 269.— Koch, 
Dendr. ii. 62. — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 
68. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. 
ix. 94.— Lauche, Deutsche Dendr. ed. 2, 206.— Gray, 
Syn. Fl. N. Am. i. pt. ii. 12.— Watson & Coulter, Gray’s 
Man. ed. 6, 219. 
Viburnum pyrifolium? Bigelow, Fl. Boston. ed. 2, 116 
(1824). 
A. bushy tree, twenty to thirty feet in height, with a short trunk eight or ten inches in diameter, 
slender rather pendulous flexible branches which form a compact round-topped head, thin divergent 
branchlets, and bad-smelling wood. The bark of the trunk is reddish brown and irregularly broken 
into small thick plates divided on their surface into minute thin appressed scales. The branchlets, when 
they first appear, are light green and slightly covered with rufous pubescence, and in their first winter 
are slender, light red, scurfy, and marked by occasional dark orange-colored lenticels and by narrow 
leaf-scars in which appear three conspicuous fibro-vascular bundle-scars; in their second year they 
become dark reddish brown and are sometimes covered with a slight glaucous bloom. The winter-buds, 
which are light red and generally covered with pale scurfy pubescence, are protected by a pair of 
opposite scales; those which contain flower-bearing branchlets are three quarters of an inch in length, 
obovate, much swollen below the middle, and then abruptly contracted into long narrow tapering points, 
and are subtended by two minute lateral buds formed in the axils of the last leaves of the previous year 
and generally abortive ; the terminal buds inclosing sterile shoots are lanceolate, acute, slightly angled, 
and about half an inch long; the axillary buds are acute, flattened by pressure against the stem, and 
much smaller than the terminal buds. The bud-seales in enlarging and unfolding become lanceolate, 
rounded on the back, often slightly expanded and leaf-like at the apex, light purple, reflexed above the 
middle, and an inch or an inch and a half in length, or often develop into leaf-like bodies which only 
differ from the leaves in their smaller size, shorter blades, and broad boat-like petioles covered on the 
outer surface with scurfy pubescence, and which sometimes do not fall until the flowers open. The 
leaves are ovate and usually acuminate, with short or elongated points, or are sometimes rounded at the 
apex, wedge-shaped, rounded or subcordate at the base, and sharply serrate with incurved callous-tipped 
teeth ; when they unfold they are bronze green and lustrous, coated on both surfaces of the midribs and 
on the petioles with thick rufous pubescence, slightly pilose on the upper surface, and covered on the 
lower with short pale hairs; at maturity they are bright green and lustrous above, yellow-green and 
marked with minute black dots below, two and a half to three inches long and an inch to an inch and a 
