Description of Foreign Shrubs 



(c) L. tartarica : leaf 2'-3', oval, base cordate. Flower whitish 

 or pinkish, paired, along branch ; spring and early summer ; ber- 

 ries red, joined at base ; 5°-8°. Siberia. 



(d) L. Morrowi : leaf (2-3') and white flower much as in the 

 foregoing, but of straggling habit in its form. 



37. Japanese Viburnum. (V. tomentosum.) 

 Leaf: 3-5', ,simple, opposite, coarsely serrate, ovate, hairy 

 above. Floavter : m. white, small (corolla 5-lobed, spreading, 

 stamens 5, stigma 3-lobed, no style), in compound clusters, with 

 a fe-tv larger sterile ones in border ; May. Japan ; low shrub. 



38. Japanese Viburnum. (V. plicatum.) 



Leaf: 3-5', simple, opposite, serrate, ovate or long-ovate, 

 pointed, slightly plaited. Flower : m. white, in verj' abundant 

 "heads," «// flowers sterile, handsome; May. Japan. 



39. European Viburnum. (V. lantana.) 



Leaf : 2'-3', simple, opposite, serrate, elliptical, pointed, 

 loose-hairy above, woolly-whitish beneath. Flower : as in last, 

 but fragrant, and with none enlarged and sterile ; clustered ; 

 May. 



40. European Snowball. (Viburnum opulus.) 



Leaf : 2'-3', simple, opposite, serrate and 3-lobed, fine-hairy 

 and green beneath, glandular-bristly on stem. Flower : m. 

 white (details as in 37), in large clusters in which a few middle blos- 

 soms are small and regular, and the outer ones much larger, with 

 no stamens nor pistils ; May ; berries bright red, elliptical ; high, 

 often arboreal. (PI. I.) 



41. American Snowball. (Viburnum oxycoccus.) 

 Like the last, but smaller ; flower-clusters smaller, fruit larger ; 

 a cultivated form. 



42. Azalea. (A. amoena.) 

 Leaf : K -i', simple, alternate, rather crowded at end of 

 branch, entire, oblong or elliptical, thick, leather}-, glossy, small. 

 Flower : m. rose-red (corolla funnel-shaped, 5 spreading lobes, 



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