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ARROW-WOOD 



Viburnum pauciflorum. Honeysuckle Family 



Leaves: broadly oval, obovate, with three rather shallow lobes above 

 the middle, coarsely and unequally dentate, glabrous above, more or 

 less pubescent beneath. Flowers: white, in compound cymes, all perfect 

 and small; corolla campanulate, five-lobed. Fruit: drupes globose, 

 bright red, acid. 



A straggling shrub growing from two to six feet high 

 and bearing many small clusters of tiny white and pinkish 

 flowers, whose bell-shaped corollas are divided into five 

 lobes above the middle and are pointed and coarsely toothed. 



RED-BERRIED ELDER 



Sambucus racemosa. Honeysuckle Family 



Stems: woody. Leaves: pinnately compound; leaflets lanceolate, acu- 

 minate at the apex, sharply serrate. Flowers: in thyrsoid cymes, white 

 to yellowish. Fruit: small, scarlet. 



This shrub, which grows from ten to thirty feet high and 

 has spreading branches and ample foliage, is widely dis- 

 tributed over the continent. In fields and forests, by the 

 roadsides and in neglected gardens, you will find it spring- 

 ing up and thriving with undaunted hardihood amid the 

 most barren surroundings. It also grows at many eleva- 

 tions, being seen in quantities at the sea level and also 

 flourishing abundantly at an altitude of 6000 and 7000 

 feet. The leaves are divided into from five to seven leaf- 

 lets, and the creamy fragrant flowers grow in elongated 

 clusters at the ends of the branches. The fruit is a bright 

 scarlet drupe, with a pungent acid flavour. 



Sambucus melanocarpa, or Black-berried Elder, does not 

 grow quite so luxuriantly as the preceding species, yet its 

 sweet-scented misty clusters adorn many a patch and thicket. 



