WAYFARING TREE : MEZEREON 



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+t Fruit laterally compressed, ovoid, with yellow, 

 dryish, and friable flesh. 



Viburnum Lantana, L. Wayfaring Tree. Fruit passing 

 through red to nearly black as it ripens, 8 10 mm. long, 

 with evident remains of calyx and stigmas as a thick 

 cushion above. Stone yellow, longitudinally striped, flat, 

 7 8 mm. Pedicels of the cymes scurfy. 



Fig. 120. Mezereon, Daphne Mezerenm. 1, flowering shoot; 2, 

 vertical section of flower enlarged ; 3, fruiting branch (Wo). 



(ii) Drupaceous fruits with more than one stone 

 and relatively thin flesh; more or less globoid 

 and smooth, berry-like, 6 12 mm. 



[The only essential difference from true berries lies in 



