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ARBORETUM KT FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, smooth, remotely 

 or unequally serrated, cuneated at the base, and quite entire, glabrous. 

 Branches tetragonally 2-edged, and also glabrous. Corymbs sessile. (Don's 

 Mill.) A large shrub or low tree. Virginia and Carolina, near the sea 

 coast. Height 10ft. to 14ft. Introduced in 1724. Flowers white; June 

 and July. Fruit black ; ripe in September. 



Sfc It 8. V. LANTA'NA L. The Wayfaring Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 384. ; Dec. Prod.. 4. p. 326. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 440. 



Synonymes. V. tomentbsum Lam. Fl. Fr. 3. p. 363. ; wild Guelder Rose, pliant-branched Mealy 



Tree ; Viorne cotonneuse, Camara, Viorne commune, Coudre-moinsinne, Moncienne, Fr. ; 



Schlingstrauch, wolliger Schneeball, or Schwalkenitrauch, Ger. ; Lentaggiue, Hal. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot, t. 331. ; Jacq. Austr., t. 341. ; and our Jig. 946. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves cordate, rounded, finely 

 serrated, veiny, clothed beneath, but more sparingly 

 on the upper side, with starry mealy pubescence, 

 like that on the branches, petioles, and peduncles. 

 Under side of leaves and branches white from mealy 

 down. Cymes pedunculate, broad, flat, of nume- 

 rous crowded white flowers. Bracteas several, 

 small, acute. (Don's Mill.} A large shrub or low 

 tree, with copious, opposite, round, pliant, mealy 

 branches. Europe and the West of Asia, in low 

 woods and hedges, chiefly on calcareous soils. 

 Height 12ft. to 15ft, Flowers white ; May and 

 June. Fruit compressed in an early state, red on 

 the outer side, yellow, and finally black, with a little 

 mealy astringent pulp ; ripe in August and Septem- 

 ber. Decaying leaves of a fine deep red. 



Varieties. 



& t V. L. 2 grandifolia Ait., V. L. latifolia Lodd. Cat., has leaves larger 



than those of the species, and, according to some, ought to constitute 



a separate species itself. Mr. Gordon thinks this variety the same 



as V. (L.) Ian tan oid es. 

 3i ^ V. L. 3 foliis variegatis Lodd. Cat. has leaves variegated with white 



and yellow. 



It grows rapidly when young, often producing shoots 5 or 6 feet long, from 

 stools in coppice woods ; but becoming stationary when it has attained the 

 height of 12 or 15 feet, which it does in 5 or 6 years; and, when pruned to 

 a single stem, forms a handsome durable small tree. In Germany, the shoots 

 of one year are employed in basket-making, and for tying faggots and other 

 packages ; and those of two or three years old are used for tubes to tobacco- 

 pipes. Plants may be raised from seeds, which should be laid up in a heap 

 in the rotting-ground, like haws ; for, if sown immediately after being gathered, 

 they will not come up for 18 or 20 months. 



& ^ 9. V. (L.) LANTANOI V DES Michx. The Lantana-like Viburnum, or 

 American Wayfaring Tree. 



Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 179. ; 



Dec. Prod., 4. p. 326. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 441. 

 Synonymes. ? V. Lantana $ grandifolia Ait. Hort. 



Kcw. ed. 1., vol. i. p. 392. ; V. grandifdlium 



Smith in Rees's Cycl. No. 14. ; V. Lantana /3 



canadensis Pcrs. Ench. 1. p. 327. ; Hobble Bush, 



Amer. 

 Engravings. Bot. Cab., t. 1070. ; and our Jig. 947. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves roundish-cor- 

 date, abruptly acuminated, unequally 

 serrated; serraturesawnless. Branches, 

 petioles, and nerves of leaves clothed 

 with powdery tomentum. Corymbs 

 terminal, almost sessile. Fruit ovate. 



