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The species cultivated are : i. V. Lantantt, twenty "feci if permitted to stand ! the stem be- 

 Wayfaring Tree; 2. V. Opului, Water Elder; comes large; (tie branches grots irregular, ami 



3. V. Lentqgo, Pear-leaved Viburnum; 4. I. 

 Cassinotih j, Thick-leaven 1 Viburnum ; .*>. /'. bi- 

 tidurn, Shining-leaved Viburnum j fi. V. la-ri- 

 gcitum, CaSsioberry Bush ; 7- ('.nudum, Oval- 

 Feaved Viburnum ; 8. V.prunifbUum, Plum-leaved 

 Viburnum ; 9- V, dmtatum, Tooth-leaved Vi- 

 burnum; 10. V. Tiiim, Laumstiuus or Lau- 

 rustine. 



The first is a thickly-branched shrub or small 

 tree, having round, pliant, mealy twigs, with 

 the same kind of tutted stellated pubescence as 

 is found on the flower-stalks, backs, and even 

 upper surfaces of the leaves: the leaves opposite- 



arc covered with a gray bark : me leaves arc di- 

 vided into three or lour lobes, sOmewbst like 

 those bf the Maple ; tbey arc about three ii 



long, and two and a halt broad, fagged on their 

 edges, and of a light green colour: the 11 

 come out in a large corymb, arc vety white, and, 

 being all neuters, are barren; from their extreme 

 whiteness, and swelling out into a globular 

 form, some country people have given this shrub 

 the name of Snow-uall I ice. ft is also some- 

 times called "Elder AW and R >« III ' Lr. 



The third has the branches bent or hanging 



down: the petioles waving on the edge: the 



somewhat elliptical, cordate, obtuse, serrate, leaves thick, like those of the tenth sort, smooth, 



strongly veined, turning dark red before they fall serrulate with very small teeth: the germ ter- 



in autumn : stipules none: the flowers whitish, initiating, awl-shaped, ventricose at the base. 



in larfe terminating, solitary, many-flowered It is a native of North America, flowering here 



cymes. It is a native of most parts of Europe, in July. 



flowering here in May. It is sometimes known The fourth species has the lowest leaves ob 



by the name of Pliant Mealy Tree ; and according ovate ; the next ovate ; the upper ones lanceolate. 



to Withering the bark of the root is used to make It is a native of North America. It llowcrs in 



birdlime. June. 



There is a variety in North America with The fifth is a native of North America. It 



larger leaves, of a bright green ; and with va- flowers in May and June. 



negated leaves in nurseries. The sixth species has the leaves petioled, 



The second species is a small bushy tree, broad-lanceolate, sharpish, without any raised 



smooth in all its parts, and very much branched : veins: the petioles deeurrent along the back, 



branches opposite, round: the leaves subcordate, whence the twigs are ancipital : the corymb 



with three great unequally serrate lobes, veined, short: the stem twelve or fourteen feet In, 



paler beneath ; their petioles bearing several sending out branches from the bottom to the 



cup-like glands towards the top, and a pair or top: the leaves about an inch long, and more 



two of erect linearappendages, scarcely to be call- than half an inch broad, of a light green colour, 



ed stipules, near the base, the cymes terminating, opposite, on short footstalks: the peduncles 



solitary, composed of many white flowers, ra- axillary, very short, supporting small umbels of 



diant; the inner perfect, small, resembling those white flowers, which appear in July. It is a 



of Elder ; those in the margin abortive, consist- native of South Carolina. 



ing merely of a large irregular flat petal without The seventh ha< a strong stem, covered with 



anv organs of fructification: the stigmas nearly a brow n smooth bark, and rising to the height 



sessile, close together: the berries drooping, of ten or twelve feet, sending out woody 



globular, crowned with five very small scales of branches on every side the whole length, which 



the calyx, red, very succulent. It is a native of have a smooth purplish bark : the leaves oppo- 



Europe, flowering early in June ; the bright-red site, five inches long and two and a half broad, 



berries ripen about September, and towards the smooth and of a lucid green above, veined and 



middle of October the leaves assume a beautiful Of a light green beneath, entire at the edg< -, 



pink colour. (indistinctly notched,) and rounded at both 



There is an American variety, which is a shrub, cnd>; of the same thickness with those ol the 



that has the twigs of a shining red colour, and Broad -leaved Lailrustinut: tne flowers are pro- 



which rises eight or ten feet nigh, with many duccd in large umbels (cyinc-i at the end of the 



side branches, covered with a Smooth purple branches, are in shape and colour like those of 



the common Laurustinus, but smaller 1 ; and the 

 stamens are much larger than the corolla: they 



bark: the leaves cordate-ovate, ending in ai ute 

 points, deeply serrate, having many strong veins, 

 and standing upon very long slender foot-: 



There is another beautiful variety common in bcrric 

 plantations under the name of Guelder Hose, native of America, flowering in May and June. 

 bearing large round bunches of abortive flowers There arc varieties with deciduous and ever- 

 only, which rises to the height of eighteen or green leaves. 



3 S 2 



ir in July, and arc succeeded bv roundish 

 s, which, when rip.-, arc black. It i- 



