VIBURNUM OIYCOCCUS-TREE CRANBERRY 



CLASS, PENTANDRIA J ORDER, TRIGYNIA. 

 NATURAL ORDER, CAPRIFOLIACE2E. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx five parted or five toothed, small. Corol 

 bell form, five cleft, with spreading or reflexed lobes. Stigmas 

 almost sessile. Berry or drupe one seeded. SPEC. CHAR. Leaves 

 three lobed, three nerved. Lobes long, acuminate, with a few 

 scattering teeth. Petioles glandular, grooved above, Cymes 

 rayed 



This is an American plant, growing from five to, eight feet in 

 height. The leaves have very large, unequal Wuntish teeth, much 

 paler on the lower than on the upper surface; they are borne on 

 smooth foot stalks, which have-two glands or secreting bodies at 

 the base of each leaf, giving it a peculiar and easily distinguishable 

 appearance., The peduclea or flower stalks arise from a common 

 Centre, but are after.vvarcls variously subdivided; this mode oi 

 tyxfloresence in ; bpjtanjcal language is called a CYME ; the outer 

 florets or flowers, of the large ray abortive, with large single leaved 

 Corollas, with a flat spreading limb proceeding from the top of the. 

 tube, abruptly expanded into a flat border .generally white and; red;; ; 

 mixed and sometimes seperate. It ia a woody ]^)ant frequenting 

 nibun tain, woods and elevated spot^ of land, ^und- mostly in. the > 

 northrei> parts of the United Sta^e^ The t^^ers appear 'in., June,, 

 presenting a. very showing appeajr^nee, euc^fgh to 



