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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



south to the middle of June at the north and occasionally also in the autumn, white or pale 

 cream color, about |' wide, in flat or slightly convex cymes with ovate acute bracts and 

 bractlets, 2 '-4' in diameter and about as long or rather shorter than their peduncle. Fruit 

 ripening late in the autumn, globose, pink at first when fully grown, becoming bright blue, 

 ' in diameter. 



A tree, rarely 18'-20' high, with a tall trunk 6'-8' in diameter, with spreading nearly 

 horizontal branches forming an open head, and slender branchlets scurfy when they first 

 appear, soon becoming glabrous, reddish brown and lustrous during their first season and 

 greenish brown the following year; usually a small or large shrub, and perhaps only a tree 

 on the borders of swamps near Gainesville, Alachua County, and Palatka, Putnam County, 

 Florida. Winter-buds reddish brown, covered with rusty scales, those containing flower- 

 bearing branches, abruptly long pointed, |'-f in length. 



Distribution. Low moist soil usually in the neighborhood of swamps and streams, and 

 on rich hillsides; southern Connecticut (Milford and Derby, New Haven County), south- 

 ward through the coast and Piedmont region, to De Soto County (near Sebring), Florida, 

 and westward usually in the neighborhood of the coast to the valley of the lower Brazos 

 River, eastern Texas, and northward through w r estern Louisiana to central Arkansas and 

 western Tennessee; occasionally ascending the Appalachian Mountains to altitudes of 

 2000; the var. angustifolium from North Carolina up to altitudes of 3000 on the Blue 

 Ridge, to northern Florida. 



2. Viburnum Lentago L. Sheepberry. Nannyberry. 



Leaves ovate, usually acuminate, with short or elongated points, or sometimes rounded 

 at apex, cuneate, rounded or subcordate at base, and sharply serrate with incurved callous- 

 tipped teeth, when they unfold bronze-green, lustrous, coated on both surfaces of the mid- 

 rib and on the petioles with thick rufous pubescence, slightly pilose on the upper surface 

 and covered on the lower with short pale hairs, and at maturity bright green and lustrous 



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above, yellow-green and marked by minute black dots below, 2^'-3' long and l'-l|' wide, 

 with a slender midrib, and primary veins connected by conspicuous reticulate veinlets; turn- 

 ing in the autumn before falling deep orange-red or red and orange color; petioles broad, 

 grooved, more or less interruptedly winged or occasionally wingless, I'-l^' long, those of 

 the first pair of leaves covered with thick rufous tomentum. Flowers about \' in diameter, 

 slightly fragrant, appearing from the middle of April to the 1st of June in stout-branched 

 scurfy sessile slightly convex cymes 3'-5' in diameter, with nearly triangular green cadu- 



