CAPRIFOLlACEi^ 



A deciduous sh-iib or small ti'ee, 10-20 ft, ; Branches opposite, pliant, 

 young shoots brown, covered with down ; Bark grey-brown, fissured ; Buds 

 long, narrow, naked ; Leaf-scars crescent. 



A native of Britain. 



SHEEP BERRY, Viburnum Lentago. 



Gardens. May — July. This is a fast-growing and attractive shrub, having a 

 great tendency to assume a tree-like form, and well suited for the lawn or 

 the margin of a wood. 



Floxvers pale cream or white, all perfect, J in. diam., in a flat terminal 

 umbellate cyme, 3-5 ins. diam., bracteate and bracteolate ; Calyx-tube slender, 

 ovoid, lobes triangular acute ; Corolla lobes ovate, acute, toothed ; Stamois 5 ; 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celIed, style thick, light green, stigma broad ; F?-uit a 

 drupe, oval, black or dark blue, glaucous bloom, sweet, juicy, ripe in 

 September. 



Leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sharply serrate, 

 deep shining green abo\'e, yellow-green with black dots beneath, 2i-5 ins. 

 long, 1-1 i in. wide ; petioles grooved, wing margined. Autumn tints purple, 

 red, yellow. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, 10-20 ft. ; Brandies slender ; 2\vigs 

 green to red, scurfy, sometimes with glaucous bloom ; Ba?-k red-brown ; 

 Buds long-pointed, scurfy pubescent ; JFood heavy, hard, close-grained, bad- 

 smelling, dark orange-brown. 



Introduced from N. America, 1701. 



LARGE-HEADED GUELDER ROSE, Viburnum mucrocephalum. 



Gardens, shrubberies, walls. J\Iay, June. The large rounded or pyramidal 



trusses make this unequalled among the Mburnums. It comes to greatest 



perfection against a wall. It is a sterile form of V. Keteleeri, a species 



in cultivation. 



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