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Obs. The: 
the most iciesant of them, a nd is eae eee of as ornamen- 
tal tree, it being beautiful, whether clothed with i a rich fred oliage 
and celia of eae in bSpes ng, or beating its plentiful clusters of fruit 
and its many-hued lea u 
** Marginal “rare era hii and with corollas many times 
‘ger than the He forming a kind of ray. 
2. V. O’pulus, Z. Nearly smooth; leaves strongly 3-lobed, oe 
‘e-shaped or truncate at the base, the lobes toothed ; petioles 
ing stalked glands at the base ; cymes peduncled ; fruit ovoid, met 
Cranberry-tree. Bush, or PETE 
3-10 feet high with spreading bran Leaves 3-5 inches in diameter with 
very large Samennaht lobes and large nega re oa teeth. Cymes 3-4 lent diameter, 
the outer and imperfect florets, more or | umerous, raised on longer stalks, destitute 
of stamens and pistils, the corolla nearly a inch in diame ter, of 5 unequal rounded lobes, 
Drupes ¥% an inch long, intensely acid. 
Pennsylvania, northward. FI. June. Fr. September. 
Obs. This species is found i in the swamps in the northernmost Sie 
and extends to the Arctic circle. eg cae id fruit is sometimes 
funesitnts for cranberries, cst ts popular name. Tt is better known 
its cultivated state as the Gelder Rose or “ Sn seat hell ” which is a 
variety with all the flowers and bearing large corollas. The Snow- 
is one of the most generally cultivated shrubs, and is beautifully de- 
scribed by the poet, Cowper, as throwing up its— 
is Meta globes, light as the foamy surf, 
That the wind severs from the broken wave.” . 
Orxper XXXVII. RUBIA’CE. (Mapper Famtry.) 
Herbs with opposite or verticillate, entire re, connected by interposed 
stipals, or ptt “ ithout apparent mies, Flowers re, egular. Calyz-tube to 
the ovary, or sometimes free,—the limb 3-5-cleft or touthedcocasltnadiy obsolete, 
Corolla inserted on the summit of the Nag etynass —the lobes as many as the 
calyx. Stamens as many as the lobes oe corolla, and santero 
mostly 2-celled ; styles mostly 2, more et ted ; ; stigmas m ostly 2, dis tinet or con- 
crete. Fruit various sam sensu drupaceous capstan or igri ~~ indehiscent car- 
pels. Seeds solitary, few a sire seo ll : embryo in the at the e: extremity, 
of copious fleshy or horny album Pree 
This toe hig a-arerd various Tribes, and nearly 250 Genera—contains many plants 
of great value—though but few of them immediately concern the North American farmer, 
he m mentioned the Coffee plant (Coffea i ch 
rE Mapes Sup-orper. “Geng Any aide a thi aly 
1. RU’BIA, Tournef. MADDER. 
coos Ruber, red ; ¢in le grato Spa ane 
id. the limb 4 1 CMP Pie wehisey wits 
yetuleovogloboe,— the Unb Atooted or abot Corla ab 
