STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
marshes and bogs. The wreaths of fine dark foliage, bear- 
ing the delicate pink waxy flowers on slender thready foot- 
stalks, and the large berries in every stage of progress— 
green, yellow, deep red and purplish red—resting upon the 
gray lichens and lovely cream-colored peat-mosses, produce 
an effect worth seeing. 
The name of the genus is supposed to be derived from the 
Latin word vieo, to tie, on account of the flexibility of the 
branches of some of the species. The word viburna, in the 
plural, seems to have been applied by the ancients to all 
plants which were used for tying. 
HOosBBLE-BUsH—Viburnum lantanoides (Michx.). 
This shrub would appear to be typical of the genus, for 
the branches twine and twist most irregularly ; the lower 
ones are procumbent, often taking root where they touch 
the ground, whence the popular name. The flowers of this 
species somewhat resemble the last, but are more cream- 
colored and appear earlier. The large handsome leaves are 
round ovate, heart-shaped at the base, and, together with 
the young branchlets, are covered underneath on the veins 
and veinlets with tufts of brown down. The ovoid fruit is 
crimson, turning blackish, and although edible is not very 
pleasant. 
MAPLE-LEAVED DocKMACKIE—Viburnum acerifolium (L.), 
is a low pretty shrub, not uncommon in open thickets and 
damp woods. The flowers are more delicate than, and not so 
conspicuous as, those of the preceding, but it would make 
a pretty border shrub, bearing some resemblance to the 
Laurestinus, with which it has been compared; the foliage, 
however, is very unlike, being of a light-green color, veiny, 
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