344 FLOWERING SHRUBS 



quantities at the sea level and also flourishing abundantly at 

 an altitude of 6000 and 7000 feet. The leaves are divided 

 into from five to seven leaflets, and the creamy fragrant flowers 

 grow in elongated clusters at the ends of the branches. The 

 fruit is a bright scarlet drupe, with a pungent acid flavour. 

 5. melanocarpa, or Black-berried Elder, does not grow quite 

 so luxuriantly as the preceding species, yet its sweet-scented 

 misty clusters adorn many a patch and thicket. The fruit, as 

 the name denotes, is a rich blue-black colour and very juicy. 

 It is from this shrub that Elderberry wine is made. 



ARROW-WOOD 



Viburnum pauciflorum. Honeysuckle Family- 

 Leaves : broadly oval, obovate, with three rather shallow lobes above 

 the middle, coarsely and unequally dentate, glabrous above, more or 

 less pubescent beneath. Flowers: white, in compound cymes, all perfect 

 and small ; corolla campanulate, five-lobed. Fruit : drupes globose, bright 

 red, acid. 



A straggling shrub growing from two to six feet high and 

 bearing many small clusters of tiny white and pinkish flowers, 

 whose bell-shaped corollas are divided into five lobes above 

 the middle and are pointed and coarsely toothed. 



SNOW-BERRY 



Symphorica7'Pus racemosus var. paucijlorus. Honeysuckle Family 



Leaves : opposite, broadly oval, entire, softly pubescent. Flowers : 

 solitary in the upper axils, and two or three in the terminal spike ; 

 corolla campanulate, five-lobed, bearded within ; stamens and style 

 included. Fruit : a white berry. 



When in flower this low spreading shrub bears its small 

 white or pinkish bells in tiny clusters at the ends of the 

 numerous upright branches, and also singly in the upper axils 

 of the leaves. When in fruit the pretty, white, waxen berries 



