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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



VI C 



20. Viburnum Lentago ; Pear-leaded Viburnum. Leaves 

 broad-ovate, acuminate, sharply serrate ; petioles margined, 

 curled ; branches bent or hanging- down. Native of North 

 America, from Canada to Carolina, flowering- in July. 



21. Viburnum Cassinoides; Thick-leaved Viburnum. Leaves 

 lanceolate, even, rolled back at the edge, indistinctly crenate. 

 It flowers in June. Native of North America. 



22. Viburnum Nitidum; Shining-leaved Viburnum. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, shining above, indistinctly serrate, or en- 

 tire; branches quadrangular. A low shrub, with small leaves. 

 Native of North America. 



23. Viburnum LEevigatum; Cassioberry Viburnum. Leaves 

 lanceolate, even, remotely serrate, quite entire at the base; 

 branches two-edged. Stem twelve or fourteen feet high, 

 sending out branches from the bottom to the top; peduncles 

 axillary, very short, supporting small umbels of white flowers, 

 appearing in July; berries globular, red, or, according to 

 Pursh, black. Native of South Carolina. It is tender while 

 young, and requires to be sheltered under a common frame 

 in winter, till the plants have obtained good strength, when, 

 if they are planted against a warm wall, they will resist the 

 cold of our ordjinary winters very well ; but as they are liable 

 to be killed by severe cold, it will be prudent to reserve one 

 br two in pots under shelter during winter. This may also 

 be propagated by laying down the branches, which will take 

 root in one year. 



24. Viburnum Pyrifolium. Plant glabrous ; leaves ovate, 

 subacute, subserrate ; petioles smooth ; fruits ovate-oblong ; 

 cymes subpedunculate; berries black. Grows on the banks 

 of rivers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, &c. 



25. Viburnum Obovatum. Plant glabrous ; leaves obo- 

 vate, crenate-dentate, or very entire, obtuse ; umbels sessile; 

 fruits ovate-subrotund. Grows in the shady woods of Caro- 

 lina and Georgia. There is a variety, named by Pursh, Vibur- 

 num Obovatum Punicifolium j3, with obovate entire leaves. 



26. Viburnum Lantanoides. Petioles and nerves pulve- 

 rulent-tomentose ; leaves large, suborbiculate-cordate, ab- 

 ruptly acuminate, unequally serrate; cymes strictly sessile; 

 fruits ovate, red, but when ripe black. Grows in shady woods 

 on high mountains from Canada to Virginia. It is known by 

 the name of Hobble-bush. See the eleventh species. 



27. Viburnum Arerifolium. Branchlets and petioles pilose, 

 eglandulose; leaves subcordate-ovate, or trilobed, acuminate, 

 finely serrated, pubescent underneath; cymes peduncled at 

 great length ; berries black. Grows in -ocky mountainous 

 situations, from New England to Carolina. 



28. Viburnum Molle. Leaves suborbiculate-cordate, pli- 

 cate-sulcate, toothed, pubescent underneath ; petioles sub- 

 glandulose; cymes radiate; berries oblong-ovate, red. 

 Grows in the hedges of Kentucky, near Danville; also in 

 Tennessee and Upper Carolina, flowering in June and July. 



Vicia; a genus of ihe class Diadelphia, order Decandria. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one-leafed, 

 tubular, erect, half five-cleft, acute; upper teeth shorter, 

 converging, all of equal breadth. Corolla: papilionaceous; 

 banner oval, with a broad oblong claw, at the tip rmargi- 

 nate with a point, btnt back at the sides, with a longitudinal 

 compressed raised line; wings two, oblong, erect, half-cor- 

 date, with an oblong claw, shorter than the banner; keel 

 with an oblong two-parted claw, the belly compressed, semi- 

 orbicular, shorter than the wings. Stamina: h'lamenta dia- 

 delphous, single, and nine-cleft; antheraj erect, roundish, 

 four-grooved. A nectareous gland springs from the recep- 

 tacle between the compound stamen and the germen, short, 

 acuminate. Pistil: germen linear, compressed, long ; style 

 filiform, shorter, ascending at an erect angle; stigma obtuse, 



transversely bearded below the tip. Pericarp: legume long, 

 coriaceous, one-celled, two-valved, terminated by a point. 

 Seeds: several, roundish. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Stig- 

 ma: transversely bearded on the lower side. The spe- 

 cies are, 



* With elongated Peduncles. 



\. Vicia Pisiformis; Pea Vetch. Peduncles many-flow- 

 ered ; petioles many-leaved ; leaflets ovate, the lower sessile. 

 Root perennial; stem upright, frequently climbing to the 

 height of a man among the bushes; flowers pale-yellowish, 

 all drooping one way, small, striated ; legume an inch and a 

 half long, smooth, veiny, of a rusty colour. It is the largest 

 of the European Vetches, flowering here in July and August. 

 Native of Germany, &c. 



2. Vicia Dumetorum; Great Wood Vetch. Peduncles 

 many-flowered ; leaflets bent back, ovate, mucronate ; sti- 

 pules somewhat toothed. This differs from the preceding in 

 the flowers not being yellow, in the leaflets being longer, 

 and the lowest not adhering to the stem. Root perennial. 

 It flowers in May. Native of France, Germany, Austria, 

 Switzerland, Piedmont, and Siberia. This, and the three 

 following species, should be sown in autumn, soon after they 

 are ripe, for if kept out of the ground till spring, the seeds 

 often fail, or at least remain in the ground a year before 

 they vegetate; they should be sown in the places where the 

 plants are designed to remain, for they do not bear trans- 

 planting well. They grow naturally in woods and thickets 

 of bushes, where their roots are screened from the sun, and 

 their stalks furnished with supports: this points out the places 

 where the seeds should be sown. If three or four seeds be 

 sown upon each patch, it will be sufficient ; for if one or two 

 plants appear in each, that will be enough. When they ap- 

 pear, keep them clean from weeds, and permit their stalks to 

 climb upon the neighbouring shrubs; for if they trail upon the 

 ground, they will produce few flowers, and in wet seasons 

 the stalks will rot, and the plants become unsightly. A few 

 of them in large gardens may be set in the borders of wood- 

 walks, or in thickets of shrubs; where, if they be allowed to 

 climb up the branches, they will have a good effect during 

 their continuance in flower. 



3. Vicia Sylvatica; Common Wood Vetch. Peduncles 

 many-flowered; leaflets elliptic; stipules crescent-ghaped, 

 toothed. The perennial root throws out may weak, smooth, 

 grooved, zigzag stems, climbing six or seven feet high, and so 

 much branched as to choke whatever they grow near; corolla 

 rather large; standard and wings whitish, beautifully streaked 

 with blue; keel pale blue. It is the most beautiful climber of 

 this island, both leaves and flowers being extremely elegant. 

 Native of Sweden, Germany, France, and England ; flow- 

 ering from the end of June through August. It was for a 

 long time supposed to be peculiar to the mountainous parts 

 of Great Britain, but has been found almost all over the 

 kingdom, particularly under Salisbury craigs, and at Cart- 

 l<tnd rocks ; near Lanark, in Scotland ; near Caerwent in 

 Monmouthshire; near Hackness; about Greta bridge, and at 

 Malham near Settle in Yorkshire; about Kirby Lonsdale, and 

 Kendal, in Westmoreland ; at Orton in Cumberland ; and in 

 the woods about Newton Cartmel ; also in Urswick woods, 

 climbing up several yards; on the hedges behind Matlock 

 bath, Derbyshire; on the north side of Bredon hill, and in 

 moist places about Clifton-upon-Teme, in Worcestershire; 

 on Shelton bank near Salop; in a hedge going down Stoke 

 hill from Bullbarrow, Dorsetshire; in Smokall wood, near 

 Bath; about Devizes in Wiltshire; in Hullwood and Wood 

 Ditton.irear Newmarket; atSheerhatch wood and Eversholt, 

 in Bedfordshire; at Medley grove, Oxfordshire; andatMerlev 



