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and the stamina much larger than the corolla: they appear 

 in July, and are succeeded by roundish berries, which when 

 ripe are black, but rarely ripen in England. Native of 

 North America. 



6. Viburnum Prunifolium; Plum-leaved Viburnum. Leaves 

 obovate, roundish and oval, smooth, sharply serrate; petioles 

 margined. Stalk woody, ten or twelve feet high, covered 

 with a brown bark, and branching its whole length; flowers 

 white, in small umbels, lateral, and terminating; berries dark- 

 blue. Native of North America. 



7. Viburnum Dauricum; Siberian Viburnum. Leaves ovate, 

 serrate, dotted, hairy; cymes dichotomous, few-flowered. 

 This is an upright shrub, with slender, jointed, straight, op- 

 posite, spreading branches, covered with a whitish-gray 

 bark; corollas yellowish-white ; berry globular, large, ovate, 

 depressed. Native of Russia and Siberia. 



8. Viburnum Dentatum ; Tooth-leaved Viburnum. Leaves 

 ovate, tooth-serrate, plaited. Stalks soft and pithy, branch- 

 ing out greatly from the bottom upward, and covered with 

 a gray bark; flowers in terminating corymbs, white: they 

 appear in June, but are not succeeded by berries in England. 

 There are two varieties of this species ; one with the leaves 

 smooth on both sides ; the other with the leaves downy under- 

 neath, and drawn out to a point. Native of North America. 

 This is generally propagated by layers. The young shoots 

 take root very freely ; as also will the cuttings, if planted in 

 autumn. The seeds, when imported, generally remain a year 

 in the earth. 



9. Viburnum Plicatum; Plaited-leaved Viburnum. Leaves 

 ovate, obtuse, tooth-serrate, plaited. The flowers are radi- 

 ated, like our Guelder-rose. Native of Japan, about Fam- 

 mamato in Fakona. 



10. Viburnum Erosum ; Japanese Viburnum. Leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, erose, serrate, smooth; petioles tomentose. Stem 

 upright, shrubby; branches opposite, angular, ash-coloured, 

 smooth, from spreading upright; flowers in a decompound 

 umbelled panicle, terminating the branchlets, not radiate; pe- 

 duncles and pedicels angular, hairy. Native of Japan. 



11. Viburnum Lantana; Way-faring Tree. Leaves cor- 

 date, serrate, veined, tomentose beneath. This is a thickly 

 branched shrub, or small tree, having round, pliant, mealy 

 twigs, with the same kind of tufted stellated pubescence as 

 is found on the flower-stalks, backs, and even upper surfaces, 

 of the leaves ; flowers in large, terminating, solitary, many-flow- 

 ered cymes ; corolla white, cloven half way down, spreading. 

 This is generally supposed to have been the Viburnum of Vir- 

 gil, though he only contrasts it with the Ball Cypress, and 

 says nothing by which it can be distinguished from shrubs in 

 general. There is a variety in North America with much larger 

 leaves, known by the name of Hobble-bush ; and another in our 

 nurseries with variegated leaves, but they become plain when 

 the shrubs are removed into good ground, and grow vigorously. 

 Native of Europe, except in the most northerly countries. In 

 England, (where the bark of the root is used to make bird- 

 lime,) it is chiefly found in a calcareous soil, among woods and 

 hedges, flowering in May. This may be propagated either 

 from seeds or layers, but the former method is seldom prac- 

 tised, because the seeds rarely grow the first year, and the 

 branches easily put out roots. The best time for laying those 

 branches is in autumn, just as the leaves begin to fall. By 

 the succeeding autumn they will be rooted, and may then be 

 removed into a nursery for two or three years, and then 

 planted where they are to remain : this kind is very hardy. 

 The Striped variety may be propagated by inarching or bud- 

 ding upon the plain sort ; but there is no great beauty in it. 

 T, e American variety is much superior to the European. 



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12. Viburnum Tomentosum; Downy Viburnum. Leaves 

 ovate, acuminate, serrate, veined, tomentose beneath ; umbels 

 lateral; branches round, smooth, tinged with red, divaricat- 

 ing, subdivided. Native of Japan, in woods, flowering in 

 April and May. 



13. Viburnum Hirtum ; Rough Viburnum. Leaves ovate, 

 serrate, villose; petioles rough-haired. Stem flexuose, erect, 

 round, smooth ; stigma two-lobed. Native of Japan. 



14. Viburnum Oxycoccus ; Cranberry Guelder Rose. 

 Leaves three-lobed, acute at the base, three-ribbed ; foot- 

 stalks furnished with glands; cymes radiant. Twigs of a 

 shining red; berries red, of an agreeable acid. Grows in 

 shady and swampy woods in North America. 



15. Viburnum Orientale ; Oriental Viburnum. Leaves 

 three-lobed, acuminate, grossly and bluntly toothed; petioles 

 smooth, and without glands. This is so nearly allied to the 

 twenty-seventh species, that it can only be distinguished by 

 the leaves being grossly toothed, instead of sharply serrate. 

 Native of the Levant and of Russia. 



16. Viburnum Opulus; Water Elder, or Guelder Rose. 

 Leaves three-lobed, acuminate, toothed ; petioles glandular, 

 smooth. This is a small bushy tree, smooth in all its parts, 

 and very much branched ; branches opposite, round ; cymes 

 terminating, solitary, compound of many white flowers, radi- 

 ant; the inner perfect, small, resembling those of Elder; those > 

 in the margin abortive, consisting merely of a large irregular 

 flat petal, without any organs of fructification. The beautiful 

 variety so common in plantations, bearing large round bunches 



of abortive flowers only, and grouping so elegantly with Lilac 

 and Laburnum in the early part of summer, will rise 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, like those of the Maple; the flowers come 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 persons call it Snow-ball Tree: it is 

 also called Elder Rose and Rose Elder. There is likewise an 

 American variety, a shrub that has twigs of a shining red 

 colour: it rises eight or ten feet, with many side-branches, 

 covered with a smooth purple bark, and cordate-ovate leaves, 

 deeply serrate, and strongly veined, on long footstalks. 

 Viburnum Opulus is a native of Europe; and is common in 

 our woods and hedges, and watery places, flowering early in 

 June. The bright red berries ripen about September, and 

 towards the middle of October the leaves assume a beautiful 

 pink colour. This may be increased in the same way as the 

 first species : it loves a soft loamy soil, and requires a shel- 

 tered situation. The American variety is easily propagated 

 by layers or cuttings. The other variety sends out plenty of 

 suckers, by which it is frequently increased ; but the plants 

 so raised being subject to put out suckers, they are not so 

 good as those which come from layers or cuttings. It re- 

 quires a moist soil, in which it will make much greater pro- 

 gress, and produce flowers more plentifully, than upon a dry 

 soil. 



17. Viburnum Dilatatum; Spreading Viburnum. Leaves 

 obovate, acuminate, unequally toothed, villose; stem upright, 

 somewhat angular, ash-coloured, villose; flowers in panicles, 

 not radiate; style simple. Native of Japan. 



18. Viburnum Macrophyllum ; Long-leaved Viburnum. 

 Leaves obovate, acuminate, toothed, smooth. Stem and 

 branches round; flowers in panicles, not radiate; peduncles 

 and pedicels tomentose. Native of Japan. 



19. Viburnum Cuspidatum, Leaves cuspidate, serrate, 

 villose. Native of Japan. 



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