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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



946. V. Lantana. 



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. (Duns 

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

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

 and July. Fruit black ; ripe in September. 



sfc ! 8. r. 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. Ft: 3. p. 363. ; wild Guelder Rose, pliant-branched Mealy 



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



Schlingstrauch, wolliger Schneebatl, or Schwalken^trauch, Ger. ; Lentaggine, Ital. 

 Engravinss. Eng. Bot., t. 331. ; Jacq. Austr., t. 34). ; and our^g^. 946. 



Spec. Char., i^c. 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. (Doit'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. 

 Heiglit 12ft. to 15ft. Flowers white; May and 

 June. Fruit compressed in an earl}' 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. 



Sk ! V. Z,. 2 grandifoUa 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.) lantanoides. 

 ^ t Y. L. '6 foliis variegatis Lodd. Cat. has leaves variegated with white ; 

 and yellow. 

 It grows rapidly when young, often producing shoots 3 or 6 feet long, from 

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

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

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

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

 packages ; and those of two or three years oUl 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 sosvn immediately after being gathered, 

 they will not come up for 18 or 20 months. 



^ t Q. V. (L.) la.ntanoi'des Michx. The Lantana-hke Viburnum, or 

 American JVr/t/faring Tree. 



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



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

 Synonymes. ? V. Lantana /3 grandifiMia Ai 



Kcir. ed. 1., vol. i. p. 392. ; K granc 



S:iiitA in liers's Cycl. No. 14. ; V. Lantana /3 



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



Amcr. 

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



Spec. Char., c^c. Leaves roundish-cor- 

 date, abruptly acuminated, unequally 

 serrated; serraturesav\nless. Branches, 

 petioles, and nerves of leaves clothed 

 with powdery tomentum. Corymbs + 

 terminal, almost sessile. Fruit ovate. 



difolium ^'^^^.rJ.r,*^-^ 



r. (L.) Uintanoidei. 



