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of seven opposite, ovate, long-pointed serrate leaflets. Flowers 

 rose-color, about a half inch broad, either perfect, or the stami- 

 nate ajid pistillate separate on the same plant. Flowers in 

 sufficient numbers to make the plant quite showy in spring. 

 Fruit in a leathery capsule, the size and form shown in fig. 49. 

 The kernel of the nut rather pleasant tasted, but unwholesome, 

 containing marked emetic properties. A small, handsome tree, 

 twenty feet high, but more commonly a shrub. In Texas and 

 Eastern. New Mexico. Cultivated in the South as an ornament- 

 al tree, also in France, but said to be somewhat tender in the 

 gardens of Paris. Propagated from seeds, suckers, or by graft- 

 ing on stocks of the common Western Buckeye. 



TiBUKKUM, Linn. — Arrow-Wood, Etc. 



A large genus of evergreen and deciduous shrubs, a few are 

 small trees, with simple, but commonly toothed, and sometimes 

 deeply lobed leaves. Flowers showy, mostly white, in com- 

 pound, terminal, flattish clusters. Fruit a drupe, containing a 

 single flattish seed. The genus is represented by about a dozen 

 species in the United States, two of which extend entirely 

 across the continent. Only two or three of our indigenous spe- 

 cies grow to a hight of twenty feet. 



Vibninnm Lentago, Linn. — Sheep Berry. — ^Leaves ovate, strongly 

 pointed, very sharply serrate, smooth, the long margined peti- 

 oles and midrib, sprinkled with rusty-colored glands. Flowers 

 white, slightly fragrant. Fruit oval, about a half inch long, 

 blue-black, with a sweetish, rather mealy edible pulp. A hand- 

 some little tree, flfteen to twenty feet high, with hard, yellow- 

 ish, strongly-scented wood. From Hudson's Bay in British 

 America, southward to Georgia, in moist soils, also west to 

 Iowa. 



V. prnnirolinm, Linn. — Black Haw. — Leaves broadly oval, ob- 

 tuse at both ends, finely and sharply serrate, smooth and shin- 

 ing above. Flowers in large sessile clusters. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 

 black, edible. A common large shrub or smaU ti-ee, fifteen to 

 twenty feet high, in dry, rich woods, from the New England 

 States, south to Florida, and westward to Texas and Missouri. 



V. Opnlns, Linn. — Cranberry Tree. — Leaves strongly three- 

 lobed, broadly wedge-shaped or truncate at base, the lobes 

 pointed and toothed on the sides, entire in the sinuses. Mar- 

 ginal flowers of the cluster destitute of stamens and pistils, but 

 many times larger than the other, forming a kind of ray, which 



