270 THE HONEYSTJCKIE EAMILT. 



Hi. VIBURNUM. VIBUENUM. 



Shrubs or small trees, with undi^-icled or palmately-lobed leaves and 

 whitish flowers iu termiual cymes. Calyx with a border of 5 small teeth. 

 Corolla with a sliort campanulate tube (in some exotic species much longer) 

 and 5 spreading divisions. Stamens 5, inserted near the base of the corolla. 

 Stigmas 3 or 2, sessile or on veiy short styles. Ovary 3- or 2-ceUed in a 

 very young stage, but at the time of flowering 1-celled, with a smgle ovule. 

 Fruit a 1 -seeded berry. 



A rather lartre and widely-spread genus, extending further into the tro- 

 pical regions of both the new and the old world than any other of the 

 family. The flowers, at first sight very much like those of the ^Ider, have 

 yet a more distinct tube, and the foHage is very dilFerent. 



Leaves toothed, undivided, downy underneath. Flowers all small 



and perfect 1. 2feali/ V. 



Leaves 3 to 5-lobed, glabrous. Outer flowers of the cyme large, 



without stamens or pistils 2. Guelder-Rose V. 



The Laurustinus of our gardens is a species of Yihnmum from southern 

 Eui'ope. 



1. Blealy Viburnum. Viburnum Lantana, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 331. Wayfaring-tree) 



A large, much branched shrub, the young shoots and leaves thickly 

 covered with a soft mealy down. Leaves ovate, 3 to 5 inches long, cordate 

 at the base, bordered by small pointed teeth, very soft and velvety on the 

 upper side, with a more mealy wliitish down underneath, without any 

 glands to the leafstalks. Flowers small and white, in dense cymes of 2 

 to 3 inches diameter. Berries somewhat oblong, of a purplish black. 



In woods and hedges, all over temperate and southern Europe to the Cau- 

 casus, penetrating far into Scandinavia. Not unfrequeut in southern Eng- 

 land, but very doubtfidly indigenous in the northern counties or in Scotland, 

 and not recorded from Ireland. Fl. early summer. 



2. Guelder-Rose Viburnum. Viburnum Opulus, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 332. Guelder-Rose.) 



Not generally a tall shrub when wild, but it \vill grow into a small tree, 

 and is always glabrous m all its parts. Leaves 2 or 3 inches broad, divided 

 to near the middle into 3 or sometimes 5 broad angular pointed lobes, which 

 are usually coarsely toothed or again lobed ; the slender leafstalks have 2 or 

 more sessile glands at the top, and 2 or more hnear fringe-like appendages 

 at the base. Flower-cymes hke those of the mealy V., except that the outer 

 flowers become much enlarged, attauihig often near an inch in diameter, but, 

 having neither stamens nor styles, they are perfectly barren. Berries 

 globular, of a blackish red. 



In hedges and coppices, in Em-ope and Russian Asia, extending into the 

 Arctic regions. In Britain, however, much less frequent in Scotland than 

 in England and Ireland. Fl. summer, rather early. The Quelder-Rose of 

 our gardens is a variety, or, more properly speaking, a monstrosity, in which 

 all the flowers are enlarged and barren, giving the cyme a globular shape. 



