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with large snow-white corollas, rendering the bush conspicuous ; 

 hemes slightly flattened, translucent, blood-red. — ]\[oist woods 

 and hedges ; common. The berries are said to be sometimes 

 fermented and eaten, a statement scarcely credible to any one who 

 has chanced to smell ihem. In the garden variety, known as the 

 Snowball-tree, all the flowers are neuter and the cyme has become 

 globular. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



2. r. La n i an a 

 (Mealy Guelder Rose, 

 Wayfaring-tree). — A 

 shrub, ijubescent with 

 stellate hairs ; leaves 

 elliptical, cordate, 

 serrate, ver\' downy 

 beneath, exstipulate ; 

 c V in e s t e rmina ; 

 fiowers small, white, 

 all perfect : hemes 

 much flattened, scar 

 let, turning black 

 when fully ripe. — Dry 

 hedgerows, chiefly on 

 calcareous soil ; not 

 general. — Fl. May, 

 lune. I'erennial. 



4. LlXX.f.A. — ^\. 

 very slender creeping 

 plant ; leaves ever- 

 green, exstipulate ; 

 fioK-ers in pairs on 

 ascending, 2-bracte- 

 ate peduncles, with 

 drooping ^-bracteol- 

 ate pedicels ; eoroUa 

 bell-shaped ; feteds 5, 

 cr than the others ; iniit 

 honiiur of Carl von Linne, 



( )]'ayfayin^-tr 



'■RNUM LAKtXxa 



,-, Mealy Guilder Rose). 



HI 



slightly unequal ; slauiciis 4, 2 

 seldom formed in Britain. (Xam 

 the great Swedish botanist.) 



r. L. horeillis. — The only species, almost glabious : leaves i>\\\te, 

 obtuse, thick ; fjawers fragrant and of a delicate ]iink colmir, 

 crimson witlun, - Fu'-woods in Scmland and at Ilartbuin, North- 

 umberland. 1 leservedly regarded with peculiar interest as being 

 the "liltle iiorlhern plant, long overlooked, depressed, abject, 



