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Symphoricarpus. Shrubs with flowers in clusters, bell-shaped; fruit a 
4-celled but only 2-seeded berry (the contents of two cells abort),  Sym- 
pAoria is a modification of the same name. 
Symphoricarpus racemosus, J/ichawx. SNOWBERRY. Native shruh, 
with whitish or rose-colored flowers loosely arranged among the leaves at the 
ends of the branches; large berries clear white. Hardy and popular. 
Symphoricarpus vulgaris, J/ichaux. INDIAN CURRANT, CORAL BERRY. 
Native shrub, with whitish rose-colored flowers in close clusters in the axils of 
the leaves; berries small and dark red. Has produced many varieties, the 
best known of which is variegata, with yellow-blotched leaves. 
Viburnum. ARrRowwoop. Shrubs with simple leaves; fruit containing 
a single convex or round stone, 
* Viburnum acerifolium, Zinmmeus. MAPLE-LEAVED VIBURNUM, Dock- 
MACKIE. A low, rather slender, native shrub, with leaves lobed like a sugar 
maple and 3 to 5 inches across; flowers small, whitish, and in a flat-topped 
cluster; fruit red. 
Viburnum Lentago, Zinneus. Native shrub or small tree, 1 5 to 20 feet 
high; ovate sharp-pointed leaves, sharply toothed; flowers white, in a large 
flat-topped cluster; berries bluish black, stones flat and hardly marked. 
Viburnum Lantana, Zinn@us. WAYFARING TREE. A much-branched 
shrub, with younger parts mealy downy; heart-shaped leaves 3 to 5 inches 
across; flowers small and white, in dense flat-topped clusters, the marginal 
ones like the others. 
Viburnum lantanoides, Michaux. Hops_e-Busu. A limber, sprawling, 
native shrub, with rooting branches; heart-shaped leaves 4 to 6 inches across; 
younger parts with a mealy down, especially the lower surface of the leaf-veins; 
marginal flowers of the cluster large and sterile, central ones small and fertile; 
seed with 6 grooves. Cold damp woods. 
Viburnum Opulus, Zinneus. CRANBERRY-TREE. Native shrub, § to 1o 
feet high; leaves wedge-shaped or squarely cut off at base, lobes toothed to- 
wards the apex; flowers marginal and central, as in the preceding species. 
The sour fruit is used as a bad substitute for cranberries. The Snow-Ball Tree 
or Guelder Rose is a cultivated form of this. 
Viburnum plicatum, 7Aunderg. A showy Japanese species, which pro- 
duces large masses of pure white flowers, and which has produced some 
striking varieties. 
CELASTRACE. Staff-Tree Family. 
Shrubs with simple leaves; stamens on a ring-like disk in the bottom of the 
calyx, and which sometimes grows over the 2- to §-celled ovary; seeds par- 
tially or entirely enclosed in a soft bag-like covering. Some few reputed 
remedies and fewer dyes are furnished by the group. 
Celastrus. StTarr-TrRee. Flowers having pistils and stamens both in the 
same flower, or, if separate, then on the same plant, or on different plants; disk 
