XIX. 2. THE WAYFARING TREE. 369 
Drs. Torrey and Gray have shown that there is no essential 
difference between this plant and the European Guelder Rose, 
V. dpulus, a variety of which, propagated by gardeners, is the 
well-known Snow Ball Tree. 
Sp. 2. Tse Wayrarine Tree. Hossre Buss. V. lantandides. 
Michaux. 
Figured in Audubon’s Birds, IZ, Plate 148. 
This plant received its specific name, dandandides, from its 
resemblance to the English Wayfaring tree, V. landdna, the tree 
which William Howitt addresses, when he says,— 
“ Wayfaring tree! what ancient claim 
Hast thou to that right pleasant name? 
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Whate’er it be, I iove it well; 
A name, methinks, that surely jell 
From poet, in some evening dell, 
Wandering with fancies sweet.’’— Book of the Seasons, p. 115. 
That tree rises to the height of eighteen or twenty feet, and 
has an ample head of white flowers. Ours, less fortunate in its 
name, is a stout, low bush, found in dark, rocky woods, and 
making a show, in such solitary places, of a broad head of 
flowers, the marginal ones often an inch across. It has large, 
opposite, very diverging branches, often declining to the ground, 
and a dark brown bark, scattered with a few grayish, wart-like 
dots. ‘The recent shoots, flower-stalks and leaf-stalks are pro- 
fusely clothed with a brown, rusty down, which gradually dis- 
appears from the branches, except towards the joints. 
The buds come out in threes, of which the middle one often 
contains flowers and leaves, the side ones leaves only. They 
have no scales, but are, instead, clothed with a close, rusty 
tomentum, which gives them the appearance of leather. ‘The 
leaves are from four to six inches in length and breadth. The 
leaf-stalks have an appendage at base, which, though gradually 
shrivelling, is very large at first, forming a broad wing near the 
base, and terminating in awl-shaped points. 
The leaves are roundish, heart-shaped at base, ending in a 
short, abrupt point, and unequally serrate on the margin. They 
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