POPULAR FLORA. 163 
2. SwEET V. or SHEEP-BERRY. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined 
footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Lentago. 
.8. Buack-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. V. prunifoliam. 
4, ARRow-woop V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straight veins, 
smooth; cymes small, stalked; fruit small, bright blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. dentatum. 
5. MAPLE-LEAVED V. or Dockmackiz. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, 
downy beneath; cymes long-stalked. Rocky woods: a shrub. V. acerifolium. 
* * 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 GUELDER-RosE is a cultivated state of this, with all the 
flowers become neutral. V. Opilus. 
7. HopsLesusH 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. lantanordes. 
47. MADDER FAMILY. Order RUBIACEM. 
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 fruit. : 
397, Common Bluets. 398. Section of a flower lengthwise, magnified, and the corolla laid open, 399. Corolla of another flower laid 
open, and the style. 
