232 CAPRiroLiACE^. [Viburnum. 



332. Loud. Arh. Brit. ii. 1039. Giiimp. und Hayne, Ahhild der 

 Deutsch. Holtzart. i. 42, t. 32. Opiilus glandulosus, Mcench. 

 V. Oxycoccos. V. edule. 



/3. Lobes of the leaves very long and acuminate. 



y. Cymes greeuish. 



In low moist woods, copses, thickets, hedges, and banks of vivers, streams, &c. ; 

 »ery frequent. F(. May, June. Fr. September, October. Ij . 



JE. Med. — Extremely common about Byde, as in Quarr copse, Apley wood's, 

 &c. Whitefield wood, and in a wood between Rougliborough and Rickhouse 

 farms. Abundant in New copse, between Byde and Wootton. Plentiful in 

 copses by the Medina, above E. Cowes. Tolt copse. Most abundantly in the 

 copse bounding the North side of Ashey common. Frequent in Cothey-Bottom 

 copse, by Westridge. Common in E;igle-head copse. Woods about King's quay. 

 In most copses about Fern hill, Little-town, Briddlesford, &c. 



W.Med. — Elm copse, near Calbourne, abundant. In moist places about 

 Westover, and elsewhere near Calbourne, frequent. Symington copse, near Med- 

 hara. Nunswood or Nunningswood copse. In the wet thicket by the stream 

 between Newbridge and Calbourne mill, abundantly. 



;8. Copse near Hardhill farm, W. Cowes. 



y. A tree or two at the N. end of Whitefield wood. In Elm copse, several 

 bushes. 



A shrub, rarely, except in gardens, a small tree, from 3 or 4 to 6 or 10 feet 

 nigh, rising with one or more slender stems seldom above a finger thick, with 

 rather few, opposite, straight, angular and flexible branches, filled with pith and 

 having a smooth grayish bark, which on the trunk is a little rough and furrowed. 

 Leaves opposite, stalked, bright green and glabrous above, paler and finely downy 

 beneath, various in size, sometimes as broad as the hand, usually from about 3 to 

 4 inches in length and about as wide as long, but often much smaller, broadly 

 and deeply 3- or often somewhat 5-lobed, when they resemble those of the Syca- 

 more (^Acer Pseudo-platanus) but smaller, the lobes acuminate, coaisely, acutely 

 and unequally toothed and serrated, the lateral pair diverging, with broad mostly 

 obtuse sinuses ; rounded or somewhat cordate ami entire at base, near which there 

 is frequently a pair of small shallow lobes, in addition to the three principal ones. 

 Petioles an inch long or less, deeply grooved, with one or more pairs of greenish 

 or reddish oblong glands towards their summits, and about as many filiform, sti- 

 pular, erect appendages in their axils, which seem to be merely the above glandu- 

 lar bodies elongated, and are perhaps rudimentary leaflets of an occult pinnated 

 arrangement, as in Sambucus, to which this and some other lobed-leaved species 

 of Viburnum approach very closely in habit, connecting the two genera.* Cymes 

 terminal, pedunculate, 2, 3, or 4 inches broad, flat, of about 7 principal branches, 

 and bearing numerous yellowish white perfect flowers, like those of the Elder, 

 rather unpleasantly scented, surrounded by a circle of large, pure white, abortive 

 blossoms, consisting of an unequally 5-lobed, flat, petaloid disk, with or without 

 rudimentary organs of reproduction. Corolla sometimes slightly tinged with red, 

 the limb in 6 roundish somewhat recurved segments, hairy within, the tube very 

 short. Stamens much exserted ; anthers pale. Styles conical. Fruit in some- 

 what lax or drooping clusters, the size of red currants, globose or very slightly 

 elliptical, bright clear red, at length purplish and semitransparent, full of a clam- 

 my, acid, bitter, and when dead ripe nauseously smelling juice ; nucleus solitary, 

 orbicular heart-shaped, much flattened, with a ridge down one of its faces. 



The variety y. is distinguished only by having all the florets, including the 

 outer radiant ones, of an herbaceous colour, the petals of the central blossoms 

 small and rather imperfectly developed, those of the marginal ones traversed with 

 white veins and partly suffused with purple, the change more or less complete on 



* If this view of the matter be correct, the lobes of the leaves exhibit the 

 uppermost pair of leaflets with the odd or terminal leaflet united. 



