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ramifications of the veins beneath, as 

 well as the branchlets, furnished with 

 glandular hairs. Corymbs flat. Flowers 

 white, but rose-coloured before ex- 

 pansion, and sometimes afterwards for 

 a little time. Berries dark blue. (Don's 

 Mill.) A compact evergreen shrub. 

 South of Europe, and North of Africa. 

 Height 8 ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 

 1596. Flowers white ; December till 

 March. Berries dark blue ; ripe in June. 



Varieties. 



* V. T. 2 hirta Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 

 p. 166. ; V. Tmus Mill. Diet. 

 No. 4.; V. liicidum Mitt., Pers., 



and Schultes. Leaves oval-ob- 937 . Kibfirnum 



long, hairy beneath and on the 

 margins. The flowers of this variety appear in autumn, and con- 

 tinue on the shrub all the winter. A native of Portugal and Spain, 

 and the vicinity of Nice. Very distinct, from the comparative 

 roundness of its leaves, and the hairiness both of the leaves and 

 branches. 



m V. T. 3 liicida Ait. 1. c. Leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces, shining. The cymes, as well as the flowers and leaves, are 

 larger than those of the common sort, and seldom appear till the 

 spring. When the winters are sharp, the flowers are killed, and 

 never open unless they are sheltered. This is quite a distinct variety, 

 with fewer and more spreading branches than the common kind, and 

 much larger leaves, which are shining. There is a subvariety of it 

 with leaves more or less variegated with white. It is a native about 

 Algiers, and on Mount Atlas. 



* V. T. 4 virgdta Ait. 1. c., Clus. Hist. No. iii. with a fig. Leaves ob- 

 long-lanceolate, pilose on the margins, as well as on the under surface. 

 It is a native of Italy, about Rome and Tivoli, &c. 



V. T. 5 stricta Hort. has a somewhat erect and fastigiate habit. Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden. There is also a variegated subvariety. 

 One of the most ornamental of evergreen shrubs, the foliage tufting in 

 beautiful masses, and covered with a profusion of white flowers which com- 

 mence expanding in November, and continue flowering till April or May. In 

 British nurseries, it is frequently, for expedition's sake, increased by layers ; 

 but all the varieties are readily propagated by cuttings, taken off in autumn, 

 and planted in a sandy soil, on a northern border. In two years, these cuttings 

 will form saleable plants of the smallest size. The variety V. T. lucida, being 

 somewhat more difficult to strike than the others, is generally increased by 

 layers, which are made in autumn, and root in a year. 



ii. Viburnum Tourn. 



Synonyms. Lentago Dec. Prod. 4. p. 424. 



Sect. Char., $c. Leaves deciduous. All the flowers fertile, and equal in shape 

 and size, except in V. lantanoides. Corolla rotate. Fruit oval. 



& 2. V. LENTA X GO L. The Lentago, or pliant-branched, Viburnum. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 384. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 325. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 440. 



Synonymes. Tree Viburnum, Canada Viburnum ; Viorne a Rameaux pendans, Viorne luisante, 



Fr. ; Birn-blatteriger Schneeball, Ger. ; Canadische Schwalkenbeerstrauch, Schwalkenstrauch, 



Hayne. 

 Engravings. Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 21. ; Schmidt Baum., 3. t. 17G. ; and our fig. 838. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves broad-ovate, acuminated, sharply serrated, glabrous. 

 Petioles with narrow curled margins. Corymbs terminal, sessile. Serratures 



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