438 VIBURNUM. [CLASS V. ORDER 111. 



ORDER III. 



TRIGYN'IA. 3 PISTILS. 



GENUS XCIV. VI BURN 'UM. LINN. Guelder-rose. 

 Nat. Ord. CAPKIFOUA'CE.*:. Jess. ' 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx five-cleft, superior. Corolla bell-shaped, five 

 lobed. Stigmas sessile. Fruit a succulent berry, from one to 

 three seeded. Name of doubtful origin. 



1. V. Lant'ana, Linn. (Fig. 501.) Mealy Guelder-rose, or Way- 

 faring tree. Leaves ovate, acute, heart-shaped at the base, serrato- 

 crenate, veiny and rough, with starry down beneath. 



English Botany, t. 331. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 107. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 146. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 132. 



A large much branched shrub, or small tree, with numerous round 

 smooth pliant opposite branches, with reddish brown somewhat shining 

 bark, the young shoots green, and thickly clothed with a 'mealy 

 pubescence. Leaves opposite, deciduous, ovate, with an obtuse or 

 acute point, mostly heart-shaped at the base, sometimes obliquely so, 

 one side longer on the channeled footstalk than the other, the margin 

 crenated, or between crenated and serrated, with a strong mid-rib and 

 numerous branched veins beneath, which, as well as the footstalk, are 

 clothed with a thick mealy downiness, of beautiful star-like tissue, as 

 well as the whole under side of the leaf, which is paler than the upper, 

 where it is less downy, and the down not so much stellated. Inflo- 

 rescence a terminal cyme, on short furrowed footstalks. Flowers 

 numerous, white, crowded, regular. Bracteas several, small, linear, 

 acute, downy. Calyx of five small ovate obtuse segments crowning 

 the fruit. Corolla of one petal, bell or funnel-shaped, with a short 

 tube, and the limb of five obtuse nearly equal spreading lobes. Sta- 

 mens with slender filaments, as long as the corolla, and ovate yellow 

 anthers. Stigmas obtuse, sessile. Fruit a compressed berry, at first 

 red, becoming black, with a little mealy pulp, and mostly one large 

 flat furrowed seed. 



Habitat. Woods and hedges, especially in a chalky or lime-stone 

 country, but very commou. Dunglass glen, in Scotland. 



Shrub ; flowering in May. 



The Wayfaring tree is not a shrub of either much beauty in its 

 appearance, nor is it applied, that we are aware of, to any particular 

 use. The leaves change to a dark red in autumn. From the bark, 

 bird lime may be made, but it is inferior to that of the Holly, (page 

 206 ;) and Pallas informs us, that in the Crimea the young shoots are 



