POPULAR FLORA. 



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2. Sweet V. or Sheep-beekt. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined 



footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Lentago. 



3. Black-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. V. prunifdlium, 



4. Akkow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straight veins, 



smooth; cymes small, stalked; fruit small, bright blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. dentalum. 



h. Maple-leaved V. or Dockmackie. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, 



downy beneath ; cymes long-stalked. Eocky woods : a shrub. V. acerifblium. 



* * Flowers at the margin of the cyme neutral, consisting merely of a large and flat corolla, white 

 (just as in Hydrangea, p. 69, and Fig. 169.) 



6. Snowball V. or Cranberry-tree. Leaves with 3 pointed lobes, smooth ; fruit red, sour. 



Swamps, N. — The Snowball-tree or Gueldeu-Eose is a cultivated state of this, with all the 

 flowers become neutral. V. Opuhs. 



7. HoBBLEBUSH V. Branches long and spreading, often taking root; leaves large, round-ovate or 



heart-shaped, many-veined, scurfy beneath ; cyme sessile, very broad; fruit red, turning blackish. 

 Damp woods, N. » V. lantamAdes. 



47. MADDER FAMILY. Order RTJBIACEiE. 



Well distinguished by its regular monopetalous corolla, bearing 4 or 5 stamens alternate 

 with its lobes, and itself borne on the ovary (the calyx being coherent) ; and the leaves 

 in whorls, or else opposite and with stipules between them. 



393. Piece of Madder, in flower. 394. Half of a flower, magnified. 395- Young fruits. 396. Ripe fruil. 



897. Common Bluets. 398. Section of a flower len^ttlwiae, niagnilied, and the corolla laid open. 399. Corolla of another flower Add 

 open, and the et/le. 



