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THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



Fig. 457. 



cordate at the base, bordered by small 

 pointed teeth, very soft and velvety on 

 the upper side, with a more mealy whi- 

 tish down underneath, without any glands 

 to the leafstalks. * Flowers small and 

 white, in dense cymes of 2 to 3 inches 

 diameter. Berries somewhat oblong, of 

 a purplish-black. 



In woods and hedges, all over tempe- 

 rate and southern Europe to the Cau- 

 casus, penetrating far into Scandinavia. 

 Not unfrequent in southern England, 

 but very doubtfully indigenous in the 

 northern counties or in Scotland, and 

 not recorded from Ireland. FL early 

 summer. 



2. Guelder-Rose Viburnum. Viburnum Opulus, Linn. 

 (Jig. 458.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 332. Guelder-Rose.) 



Not generally a tall shrub when wild, 

 but it will grow into a small tree, and is 

 always glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 

 2 to 3 inches broad, divided to near the 

 middle into 3 or sometimes 5 broad 

 angular pointed lobes, which are usually 

 coarsely toothed or again lobed; the 

 slender leafstalks have 2 or more sessile 

 glands at the top, and 2 or more linear 

 fringe-like appendages at the base. 

 Elower-cymes like those of the mealy V., 

 except that the outer flowers become 

 much enlarged, attaining often near an 

 inch in diameter, but, having neither 

 stamens nor styles, they are perfectly 

 barren. Berries globular, of a blackish- 

 red. 



In hedges and coppices, in Europe 

 and Hussian Asia, extending into the 

 Arctic regions. In Britain, however, much less frequent in Scotland 

 than in England and Ireland. Fl. summer, rather early. The Guelder- 

 Rose of our gardens is a variety, or, more properly speaking, a mon- 

 strosity, in which all the flowers are enlarged and barren, giving the 

 cyme a globular shape. 



Fig. 458. 



