VIBURNUM. 



each end, brigiit green, fmoodi. Cymes (lender, hairy, of 

 three unequal brunches. Flowers white ; a few of them 

 imperfeA, with large, dilated, unequal, radiant ealyx-leaves 

 iuftead of petals, as in the Gucldcr-rofe, &c. Thunberg 

 defcribes ten Jlamens, but this is an accident, or error, his 

 own fpecimcn before us hiving but five. The three elongated 

 JfyL-s, with club-fhapedy/ifmaj, are remarkable. Nothing is 

 known refpefting the fruit. The germcn is turbinate, en- 

 circled with the calyx, as in Hydrangea. 



y. V. nudum. Smooth Oval-leaved Viburnum. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 383. Willd. n. 5. Ait. n. 2. Pur(hn.4. (V. foliis 

 ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis ; fubtils venofis ; Mill. Ic. 

 183. t. 274.) — Leaves elliptical, bluntifh, fomewhat revo- 

 lute, nearly entire, very fmooth, as well as the cymes, 

 branches, and footftalks. — Native of North America, in 

 fwamps, particularly on a fandy foil, from Canada to 

 Georgia, flowering in May and June. Every pait is very 

 fmooth. Leaves three or four inches long ; evergreen in the 

 fouthcrn dates of North America, but not in our gardens. 

 The cymes are large, on long terminal _/?a//fj. Flowers co- 

 pious, while. Berries black. 



6. V. obovatum. Smooth Obovate Viburnum. Walt. 

 Carol. 116. Poirct in Lam. Did. v. 8. 658. Purlli n. 5. 

 — Leaves obovate, obtufe, fmooth, entire or fomewhat 

 notched. Cymes feffde. Berries roundifli-ovate. — In (hady 

 woods of Carolina and Georgia, flowering in May and 

 June. Purjh. Flowers white, fmall. Berries blackifh. 

 This is fuppofed to- be V. cajftnoides ai Michaux, Boreal. - 

 Jlmer. v. i. 179, though not that of Linnaeus. 



7. V. prunifolium. Plum-leaved Viburnum. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 383. Willd. n. 6. Ait. n. 3. Purflt n. I. (V. 

 Lentago ; Moench Hort. Wciffcnlt:. 140'. t. 8. Mefpilus 

 prunifolia virginiana ; Pluk. Phyt. t. 46. f. 2.) — Smooth, 

 with wide-fpreading branches. Leaves roundifh-obovate, 

 linely ferratsd. Footftalks even. Cymes felTde. Berries 

 roundifli. — Common in hedges and fields, from New Eng- 

 liind to Carolina, flowering in May and June. A hardy 

 Hirub, cultivated by Miller. The leaves are fcarcely an inch 

 and a half long, full an inch broad, minutely and (harply 

 ferrated. Flowers white. Berries dark blue. 



8. V. pyrijolium. Sharp-leaved Viburnum. Poiret in 

 Lam. Did. V. 8. 653. Purfli n. 2.) — Smooth. Leaves 

 ^)vate, pointed, ferrated. Cymes fomewhat ftalked. Berries 

 elliptic-oblong. — On the banks of rivers, in Pernifylvania, 

 New Jerfey, &c. flowering in May and June. Refembles 

 the former, but is not fo llraggling in its growth. Ber- 

 ries black. PurJ].\ Our wild Pennfylvanian fpecimen has 

 copioufly ferrated leaves, two inches and a half long, with 

 taper entire points. The fruit feems rather obovate. This 

 may perhaps be V. arboreum, Muhlenb. Catil. 32. n. 12, 

 our fpecimen having been fent by that excellent botanift, 

 without a name, and formerly referred by us to prunifcltum, 

 to which it is certainly near akin. 



9. V. dauricum. Siberian Viburnum. Pallas Rofl". v. i. 

 p. 2. 30. Willd. n. 7. Ait. n. 4. (Loniceramongolica; 

 Pall. Roir. v. I. p. I. 59. L. dauurica ; ibid. t. 38. L. n. 8 ; 

 Gmel. Sib. v. 3. 135.1. 25.) — Leaves ovate, ferrated, dotted 

 and hairy. Cymes of few flowers. — Found in the fidures 

 of rocks, in various parts of Siberia. The late Mr. Bell, 

 to whom our Englifli gardens are fo much indebted for 

 plants from that country, introduced this in 1785. it 

 flowers in June and July, but is not ornamental. The leaves 

 arc an inch and a quarter long, about half as broad. Flowers 

 white, very few in each cyme, compared with moll of th.e 



■fpccics. Corolla with an elongated tube. In his full ac- 

 count of this plant, above cited, Pallas attributes five, fix, or 

 iTevcn feeds to the fruit ; in the fecond he fays one of his 

 \i)L. XXXVII. 



pupils impofeil upon him with a wrong fpecimen, and that 

 the real fruil ol this Ihrub is an ov.il berry, red at lirll, then 

 black, like F. Lantana, but more oblong, with a folitary, 

 compreffed, ribbed /ef^. He gives figures of thefe parts, 

 with the leaf of a Imaller variety, in his tab. 58. fig. F, G ; 

 which he calls tab. 7. Pallas further remarks, that the fcat- 

 tered pubefcence of this fpecies is ftcllated, and that a por- 

 tion of fuch is found on the flower flalis ; all which brings 

 it nearer to the Lantana, a circuraftance hardly to be divined 

 from his figure. 



10. V. Jentalnm. Shining Tooth-leaved Viburnum. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 384. Willd. II. 8. Ait. n. 5, K. Purfli n. 9. Jacq. 

 Hort. Vind. v. i. 13. t. 36. — Leaves roundilh-ovate, acute, 

 furrowed and fomewhat plaited, Ilrongly toothed, nearly 

 fmooth on both fides. Cymes ftalked. Berries almoft glo- 

 bular. — In mountainous woods frequent, from New York 

 to Carolina, flowering in June and July, and known by the 

 name of Arrow-wood. Berries dark blue. Pur/h. The 

 leaves of this fpecies are three inches long, and nearly as 

 broad, fomewhat heart-lhaped at the bafe ; bcfprinkled on 

 the upper fide with fine, fimple, diftant hairs ; paler and 

 fmoolher beneath. They are ftrongiy ribbed. Flowers 

 rather fmall, hairy in the middle. Calyx white as well as the 

 petals. 



11. V. pukfeens. Downy Tooth-leaved Viburnum. 

 Purfli n. 10. (V. dentatum IS ; Ait. n. 5. Willd. n. 8.) 

 — Leaves ovate, pointed, furrovfed and fomewhat plaited, 

 ftrongiy ferrated ; foft and downy beneath. Cymes ftalked. 

 Berries oblong. — In the lower parts of Virginia and Caro- 

 lina, flowering in June. The whole of the flirub fmaller thxn 

 the preceding. Purjb. We have a fpecimen of this from 

 the Paris garden, marked V. dentatum longifuUum, Ju/f. The 

 leaves are downy on both fides, but particularly foft at 

 the back ; tlieir form oblong-ovate ; length two or two 

 and a half inches ; margin fliarply ferrated ; traafverfe veins 

 numerous, divided. Flowers much like the laft. 



12. V.plicatum. Plaited Japanefe Guclder-rofe. Thunb. 

 Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 332. Willd. n. 9. (V. dentatum ; 

 Thunb. Jap. 122, excluding the reference to Linnaeus. 

 Fundhn, vulgo Te Mariqua ; Kaempf. Am. Exot. 854.^ — 

 " Leaves ovate, obtufe, with tooth-like ferratures, plaited." 

 — Found by Thunberg near Fammamato, in Fakona, ard 

 other parts of Japan, flowering in April and May. The 



flowers are radiated, hke our Guelder-rofe ; but the leaves, 

 as Kxmpfer obferves, are rounder than in that fpecies, with 

 crowded ribs, and a ferrated margin. Thunberg fays the 

 kaves are plaited, efpecially before they fully expand ; the'r 

 form rounder, and their teeth finer, than in the true f. den- 

 tatum, n. 10. 



13. V. eroftim- Jagged Japanefe Viburnum. Thunb. 

 Jap. 124. Vv illJ. n. 10. — Leaves obovate, pointed, fliarply 

 notched, nearly fmooth. Footftalks downy, as well as the 

 cymes. — Native of Japan. Branches grey, lomewhat fpread- 

 ing, fmooth, except when young. Footjlalls fiendcr, near an 

 inch in length ; Thunberg calls them very ftiort ; we fufpcct 

 he viTQtc pellolus for pedunculus, (the common flowcr-ftaik,) 

 which is very fliort, and downy like the cyme, [not panicle nor 

 umbel,) which it fupports. The flowers are numerous ani 

 crowded, but not radiated. Leaves pliant, ftrongiy veined, 

 two or three inches long, dilated upwards. 



14. V. Lantana. Mealy Giuh'cr-rofe ; or W.iy-farinjj 

 Tree. Linn. Sp. PI. 384. Willd. n, 11. Fl. But. n. i. 

 Engl.Bot. t. 331. Jacq. Aullr.t. 341. (Viburnum ; M.itih. 

 Vaigr. V. I. "194. Camer. Epit. 122. Lantara, five Vi- 

 burnum ; Gcr. Em. 1490. )— Leaves heart-lliaped, fl)sr;.!y 

 ferrated, veiny ; downy beneath, with ftarry hairs. Cyr-s 

 ftalked, downy.— Native of hcdgot and thickets, in iSe i>«r;r-r 



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