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the leaves two inches long, and an inch and quarter broad, slightly 

 serrate, and on short slender footstalks, opposite or without order: 

 the flowers in small umbels (cymes) lateral and terminating; these 

 are white, and smaller than in the first sort, appearing in June, and 

 are sometimes succeeded by berries. It grows naturally in most 

 parts of North America, where it is commonly called Black Haw. 



The ninth has the stalks soft and pithy, branching out greatly 

 from the bottom upward, and covered with a gray bark : the leaves 

 three inches long, and nearly as broad, strongly veined, of a light 

 green colour, placed opposite upon pretty long footstalks: the 

 flowers in terminating corymbs, white, and almost as long as those 

 of the first sort, appearing in June. It is a native of North America. 



There are varieties with the leaves smooth on both sides, and 

 with the leaves downy underneath and drawn out to a point. 



In the tenth species the leaves are seldom more than two inches 

 and a half long, and an inch and quarter broad; they are rounded: 

 at their base, but end in acute points, are veined and hairy on their 

 under side, and not of so lucid a green colour as the following sort 

 on their upper. 



There are several varieties; as the smaller hairy leaved, hi which 

 the umbels (cymes) of flowers are smaller, and appear in autumn,, 

 continuing all the winter. The plants are much hardier. 



The shining-leaved, in which the stalks rise higher, and the 

 branches are much stronger: the bark is smoother, and turns of a 

 purplish colour: the leaves are larger, of a thicker consistence, and 

 of a lucid green colour: the umbels (cymes) are much larger, and so 

 are the flowers ; these seldom appear till the spring, and when the 

 winters are sharp, the flowers are killed, and never open unless they: 

 are sheltered. 



There is a sub-variety of this with variegated leaves; with gold 

 and silver-striped; in which the branches are warted, the younger 

 ones four-cornered: the leaves opposite, ovate, on short petioles, 

 rigid, shining, perennial; the younger ones hirsute, with short ferru- 

 ginous villose hairs: flowers in crowded cymes, with little bractes 

 between them: the corolla white; and the berries, when ripe, blue. 



