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covered with its round, button-like balls of bloom. 

 These balls or heads are made up of a dense round 

 cluster of separate cream-white flowers, each flower 

 of which is tubular, and from its narrow, four-toothed 

 corolla, the very long style sticks up exactly like a long, 

 thin pin. The whole affair looks precisely as if it were 

 a little round pin-cushion stuck full of golden-headed 

 pins. The leaves of the shrub are either opposite on the 

 branches or occur three together. It is certainly odd- 

 looking in bloom, and you should see it then. Back 

 (north) of the buttonbush, down the slope of the lawn 

 a little, looking toward the Lake, you will see the dwarf 

 Japan catalpa. It has leaves that are like the bean 

 catalpa, but are more sharply angulated, more pointed, 

 and less cordate. The Japan catalpa here is not over 

 five feet high, and you can tell it easily by these features. 

 In the westerly corner of the easterly branch of the 

 Walk, you will find scentless syringa, and opposite to it, 

 in the easterly corner of the Walk, is Missouri cur- 

 rant, which you met in the Ramble. 



If you will continue now, around the circuit of the 

 Concourse, bending here, to the south, near the lamp- 

 post, just south of it, you will find the shrub called the 

 wayfaring tree ( Viburnum lantana) , of Europe. It has 

 scurfy branches and dark-green, thick, wrinkled leaves 

 which are almost woolly on the undersides. These 

 leaves are from three to four inches long, ovate, and 

 with bases more or less cordate. The shrub flowers in 

 May, with the characteristic white flat cymes typical of 

 the viburnum, and these dense heads are succeeded by 

 bright-red, egg-shaped berries, which become blue-black 



