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name of Pliant Mealy Tree; and according to Withering, the bark 

 of the root is used to make birdlime. 



There is a variety in North America with larger leaves, of a bright 

 green; and wilh variegated leaves in nurseries. 



The second species is a small bushy tree, smooth in all its parts, 

 and very much branched: branches opposite, round: the leaves 

 subcordate, with three great unequally serrate lobes, veined, paler 

 beneath; their petioles bearing several cup-like glands towards the 

 top, and a pair or two of erect linear appendages, scarcely to be 

 called stipules, near the base: the cymes terminating, solitary, com- 

 posed of many white flowers, radiant; the inner perfect, small, re- 

 sembling those of Elder, those in the margin abortive, consisting 

 merely of a large irregular flat petal without any organs of fructifica- 

 tion: the stigmas nearly sessile, close together: the berries drooping, 

 globular, crowned with five very small scales of the calyx, red, very 

 succulent. It is a native of Europe, flowering early in June; the 

 bright red berries ripen about September, and towards the middle of 

 October the leaves assume a beautiful pink colour. 



There is an American variety, Avhich is a shrub, that has the 

 twigs of a shining red colour, and which rises eight or ten feet high, 

 with many side branches, covered with a smooth purple bark: the 

 leaves cordate-ovate, ending in acute points, deeply serrate, having 

 many strong veins, and standing upon very long slender footstalks. 



There is another beautiful variety common in plantations under 

 the name of Guelder Rose, bearing large round bunches of abortive 

 flowers only, which rises to the height of eighteen or twenty feet if 

 permitted to stand: the stem becomes large; the branches grow 

 irregular, and are covered with a gray bark: the leaves are divided 

 into three or four lobes, somewhat like those of the Maple; they are 

 about three inches long, and two and a half broad, jagged on their 

 edges, and of a light green colour: the flowers corne out in a large 

 corymb, are very 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 Snozo-ball Tree. 

 It is also sometimes called Elder Rose and Rose Elder. 



