Viburnum. 



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overflow ; one of the largest and most common trees of the bottom-lands 

 of the lower Mississippi River basin, and reaching its greatest develop- 

 ment in the cypress swamps of western Louisiana and eastern Texas, near 

 the coast. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, compact, unwedgeable ; 

 medullary rays numerous, thin ; color light brown, or often nearly white ; 

 used in turnery and largely for wooden-ware; that of the root for the 

 floats of nets, etc., as a substitute for cork. 



CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



156. Sambucus glanca, Nutt. 

 Elder. 



Valley of the Fraser River and Vancouver's Island, British Columbia, 

 south to the Mexican boundary, extending east to the Blue Mountains 

 of Oregon and the Wahsatch Range, Utah. 



A small tree, sometimes 8 to 9 metres in height, with a trunk 0.<°>0 to 

 0.45 metre in diameter, or toward its northern limits reduced to a large 

 shrub ; mountain valleys, in dry, gravelly soil. 



Wood light, soft, weak, coarse-grained, checking in drying ; medullary 

 rays numerous, rather conspicuous ; color yellow tinged with brown, the 

 sap-wood lighter. 



157. Sambucus Mesicana, Presl. 

 Elder. 



Valley of the Nueces River, south through western Texas, west along 

 the southern boundary of the United States to southern California ; in 

 northern Mexico. 



A small tree, sometimes 6 metres in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.25 

 metre in diameter ; bottom-lands, in moist, gravelly loam. 



Wood light, soft, rather coarse-grained, compact ; medullary rays nu- 

 merous, thin, conspicuous ; color light brown, the sap-wood lighter. 



158. Viburnum Lentago, L. 

 Sheep-berry. Nanny-berry. 



Southern shores of Hudson Bay, west in British America to about 

 longitude 102°, south through the northern States to Pennsylvania, south- 

 ern Indiana, eastern Missouri, and along the Alleghany Mountains to 

 northern Georgia. 



A small tree, 6 to 9 metres in height, with a trunk sometimes 0.15 to 

 0.25 metre in diameter ; rocky ridges and borders of streams and swamps, 

 in rich, moist soil; most common and reaching its greatest development 

 far north. 



