404 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
clustered into pedunculated or prominently stalked 
cymes, which form a large, conspicuous head of 
bloom, finely contrast with the bright green of 
the foliage. The Guelder Rose leaf is very suc- 
culent-looking, and somewhat palmate or hand- 
shaped, and decidedly three-lobed, each lobe being 
irregularly indented with rather broad indenta- 
tions, the upper lobe being much larger than the 
two lower ones. The venation is very distinct, con- 
sisting of three principal veins proceeding from 
the apex of the short leaf-stalk to the apices 
of the three lobes with somewhat irregular 
branches proceeding from them in a diagonal 
direction towards the leaf-margin. The berries 
which succeed the summer blossoming are of a 
bright red colour, but though juicy, they are 
bitter and uneatable. 
Of easy culture in almost any soil after propa- 
gation by layer or seed, this Tree invites attention, 
not only by its summer dress of green and white, 
but by the singular beauty of its autumnal hues. 
The leaves then assume a deep crimson colour 
with hues of purple, as if they strove to rival the 
tinting of the fruit. And when the crimson 
