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to your right (northerly), and continue along the 

 Walk, until it begins to bend easterly to a rustic 

 shelter. If you have a permit to explore for things 

 not beside the Walk, strike off from the path, to your 

 left, just before you come to where the Walk begins 

 to swing around to the rustic shelter, and in among 

 the shrubberies here, about eighteen or twenty feet 

 to the southwest of the Walk, you will find a fair 

 specimen of this Viburnum. It is easily distinguished 

 by its maple-like leaves, which are generally three-lobed 

 and have large irregular teeth. The leaves are set 

 oppositely, and the coarse cutting of the large teeth 

 instantly attract the attention. The shrub blooms in 

 June, in rather flattish terminal loose cymes, and are 

 very beautiful, just before they open, from the pale 

 pinkish-purple flush that suffuses them. As they open, 

 they become cream- white. These flowers are succeeded 

 by dark-purple berries, whose stones are two-grooved. 

 It is a pretty shrub, and very beautiful just as it be- 

 gins to bloom. 



It may be interesting to add that the viburnums 

 belong to the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliacece, in- 

 cluding the elder, the Indian currant or coral berry, the 

 snowberry, and the Weigela (Diervilla). Generally 

 speaking this great group CaprifoliacecB, is character- 

 ized by having the stamens of their flowers about as 

 many as there are lobes of the corolla. In the elders 

 and the viburnums, the corollas are shallow wheel- 

 shaped or urn-shaped; in the coral berries and snow- 

 berries, the corollas are bell-shaped; in the honey- 

 suckles (Lonicera) and the Weiglas (Diervilla) the 



