POPULAR FLORA. 



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2. Sweet V. or Sheep-berry. Leaves ovate, poiuted, very sharply serrate, on long and margined 



footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Lentayo. 



3. Black-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and \V. V. livunifdUum. 



4. AiiKOW-wooD V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straight veins, 



smooth; cymes small, stalked; fruit small, bright blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. daitaium. 



5. Maple-leaved V. or Dockmackie. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, 



downy beneath; cymes loug-stalked. Rocky woods: a shrub. V. acerifvliuni. 



* * Flowers at the margin of the cyme neutral, consisting merely of a large and flat corolla, white 



(just as in Hydrangea, p. 69, and Fig. 169.) 



6. Snowball V. or Cranberry-tree. Leaves with 3 pointed lobes, smooth ; fruit red, sour. 



Swamps, N. — The Snowball-tkee or Guelder-Kose is a cultivated state of this, with all the 

 flowers become neutral. I". Opulus. 



7. Hop.blebush V. Branches long and spreading, often taking root; leaves large, round-ovate or 



heart-shaped, manj'-veined, scurfy beneath; cyme sessile, very broad; fruit red, turning blackish. 

 Damp woods, N. V. lantanmdes. 



47. MADDER FAMILY. Order RUBIACEiE. 



Well distinguished by its regular monopetalous corolla, bearing 4 or 5 stamens alternate 

 with its lobes, and Itself borne on the ovary (the calyx being coherent) ; and the leaves 

 in whorls, or else opposite and with stipules between them. 



39) 399 



398 



S93. Piece of Madder, in flower. 394. Half of a flower, magnififd. 395. Young fruits. 396. Ripefjuil. 



Sy7. Conitvion Klnets. 388 Siectioii of a flower lejigttiwise, liiagnified, and the corolla laid open. 399. Corolla of anotlier flower Jaid 

 open, and tlie style. 



