WAYFARING TREE 



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to all insects. The flowers are gathered into a head, and the outer 

 flowers have a slightly more enlarged corolla, which in the Guelder 

 Rose is developed at the expense of both stamens and pistil, and 

 though not providing pollen nor seeds is useful to man. The stigma 

 matures first. The flowers are complete in the Wayfaring Tree. 



The fruit is edible, and the seeds are dispersed by animals. 



This is a lime- loving plant, addicted to a lime soil on chalk or 

 oolite, and is also found in hedgerows along macadamized roads. 



A gall-fly, Eriopkyes 

 tetanothrbc, infests it, 

 and Aphis viburni lives 

 on it. Two beetles, 

 Galeruca viburni, Eus- 

 phalera primula, and 

 the moths Peronea 

 ruffana, Lithocolletis 

 lantanella, Coleophora 

 paripennella feed on it. 



Viburnum, Varro, 

 is the Latin name for 

 the plant. Lantana, 

 Dodonaeus, may be from 

 the Latin verb lento, \ 

 make flexible. 



This shrub is called 

 Cottoner, Cotton -tree, 

 Coventree, Lithevvort, 

 Mealy-tree, Twist- wood, 

 Wayfaring Tree, Whip- 

 crop, Whitewood. 1 1 was 

 called Twist- wood be- 

 cause ploughboys twisted 

 it into handles for whips, called "twists". Gerarde invented the name 

 Wayfaring Tree. The name Cotton-tree is from its soft foliage. It 

 is called Mealy Tree because its leaves are white, mealy, soft, and 

 tomentose, or clothed with cotton, and downy. It was dedicated to 

 the festival on Whitsuntide. The twigs are used for making bird-lime. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



138. Viburnum Lantana, L. Shrub, with mealy, flexible, branched 

 stems, leaves hoary below, asperous, ovate-serrate, flowers white, in a 

 cyme, perfect, berries scarlet, then black. 



Photo. Dr. Somerville Hastings 



WAYFARING TREE {Viburnum Lantana, L.) 



