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Acer campestre and Ulmus campestris are often shrubby 

 in hedges, &c., and have a great tendency to form tawny- 

 grey corky periderm, which is ridged and furrowed on the 

 branches : it is less rugged than that of Sambucus, but 

 there are certain resemblances. Both are much more 

 woody and stiffly branched ; and the buds, leaves, flowers 

 and fruit differ entirely (see pp. 160, 185). 



OO Twigs not thick nor pithy; leaves not 



compound, and lenticels not prominent. 



Twigs greyish or whitish, mealy; buds 



naked; leaves large oval, grey-green, 



hairy; flowers white in dense corymbs; 



fruit fleshy, flattened, red to black. 



Viburnum Lantana, L. Wayfaring Tree. An erect 

 shrub, common on chalk, 10 15 feet, abundantly but 

 loosely branched. Twigs more or less angular at tips, arid 

 nearly white with grey, scurfy, stellate hairs. Branches 

 yellowish-brown, passing to grey-brown, with long fissures. 

 The flattened oval fruits, mealy shoots and foliage, and 

 the naked elongated buds are very characteristic. 



Twigs and foliage not mealy ; buds 



not naked; and fruit not flattened. 

 $ Shoots slightly angular; twigs shin- 

 ing pale-brown or grey; leaves lobed 

 and with glands on their petioles. 

 Flowers in dense cymes; the outer 

 ones much larger, barren and white. 

 Fruit scarlet. 



Viburnum Opulus, L. Guelder Rose (Fig. 123). A shrub 

 or small tree, up to 10 12 feet high, easily recognised by 

 its glandular petioles, broad lobed leaves, and the larger 

 white barren flowers at the edges of the umbellate cymes. 

 Bark yellowish grey, fissured ; branches weak, tawny-grey. 

 Suckers long and wand-like. The buds exhibit at most 

 two scales on the outside. 



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