XL. CAPRIFOLA‘CEH: VIBU/RNUM. 517 
ramifications of the veins beneath, as 
well as the branchlets, furnished with 
glandular hairs. Corymbs flat. Flowers 
white, but rose-coloured before ex- 
pansion, and sometimes afterwards for 
a little time. Berries dark blue. (Don’s 
Mill.) A compact evergreen shrub. 
South of Europe, and North of Africa. 
Height 8 ft. to 10ft. Introduced in 
1596. Flowers white; December till 
March. Berries dark blue ; ripe in June. 
Varieties. 
a V.T. 2 hirta Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 
p. 166.; V. Tinus Ail’, Dict. 
No.4.; V. licidum Mill., Pers., 
and Schultes. — Leaves oval-ob- 
long, hairy beneath and on the 
margins. The flowers of this variety appear in autumn, and con- 
tinue on the shrub all the winter. A native of Portugal and Spain, 
and the vicinity of Nice. Very distinct, from the comparative 
roundness of its leaves, and the hairiness both of the leaves and 
branches. 
a V.T. 3 lucida Ait. 1. c.— Leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous on both sur- 
faces, shining. The cymes, as well as the Howers and leaves, are 
larger than those of the common sort, and seldom appear till the 
spring. When the winters are sharp, the flowers are killed, and 
never open unless they are sheltered. This is quite a distinct variety, 
with fewer and more spreading branches than the common kind, and 
much larger leaves, which are shining. There is a subvariety of it 
with leaves more or less variegated with white. It is a native about 
Algiers, aud on Mount Atlas, 
a V. T. 4 virgata Ait. |. c., Clus. Hist. No. iii. with a fig.— Leaves ob- 
long-lanceolate, pilose on the margins, as well as on the under surface. 
It is a native of Italy, about Rome and Tivoli, &c. 
a V. T. 5 stricta Hort. has a somewhat erect and fastigiate habit. Horti- 
cultural Society’s Garden. There is also a variegated subvariety. 
One of the most ornamentai of evergreen shrubs, the foliage tufting in 
beautiful masses, and covered with a profusion of white flowers which com- 
mence expanding in November, and continue flowering till April or May. In 
British nurseries, it is frequently, for expedition’s sake, increased by layers ; 
but all the varieties are readily propagated by cuttings, taken off in autumn, 
and planted in a sandy soil, on a northern border. In two years, these cuttings 
will form saleable plants of the smallest size. The variety V. T. lucida, being 
somewhat more difficult to strike than the others, is generally increased by 
layers, which are made in autumn, and root in a year. 
937. Vibamum Tinus. 
§ ii. Vibtirnum Tourn. 
Synonyme. Lentago Dec. Prod. 4. p.-424. 
Sect. Char., &c. Leaves deciduous. All the flowers fertile, and equal in shape 
and size, except in V. lantandides. Corolla rotate. Fruit oval. 
2 % 2, V.Lenta‘co L. The Lentago, or pliant-branched, Viburnum. 
i ion. Lin. Sp., p- 384.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 325. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 440. 
Las as Tree ‘Viburnum, Canada Viburnum ; Viorne a Rameaux pendans, Viorne luisante, 
Fr. ; Birn-blatteriger Schneeball, Ger. ; Canadische Schwalkenbeerstrauch, Schwalkenstrauch, 
ian ‘Wats, Dend. Brit., t. 21.; Schmidt Baum., 3, t. 176. ; and our Jig. 938. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves broad-ovate, acuminated, sharply serrated, glabrous. 
Petioles with narrow curled margins. Corymbs terminal, sessile. Serratures 
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