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6. Viburnum alnifolium. Alder-leaved Viburnum. 



This grows naturally in Carolina and other parts 

 of America; rifing with a flirubby ftalk to the height 

 of eight or ten feet, covered with a fmooth purplifh 

 bark, and divided into feveral branches. The leaves 

 are heart-fhaped, oval, fliarp-pointed, deeply fawed 

 on their edges, ftrongly veined, and placed oppofite 

 upon long flender footftalks. The flowers are col- 

 leded in large cymes or umbels at the ends of the 

 branches, thofe ranged on the border are male, but 

 the center is filled with hermaphrodite flowers, which 

 are fiicceeded by pretty large, oval berries, red co- 

 loured when ripe. 



7. Viburnum triloba. Mountain Viburnum. 



This grows naturally upon montains in the interior 

 parts of Pennfylvania; rifing with flender fl:ems to 

 the height of eight or ten feet. The leaves are fome- 

 what like thofe of the Guelder Rofe or Snow-ball 

 tree ; they are narrows at the bafc, but fpreading and 

 divided into three fliarp pointed lobes, the middle 

 one largefl, longefl:, and fometimes fliglitly tooth- 

 eJ. The flowers are produced in form of the others, 

 and are fucceeded by berries of the fame fliapc, of 

 a pretty large fize and red colour when ripe. 



V I S C U M. 



M I S S E L T O E. 

 Cia/s 22. Order 4. Dioecia Tetrandria. 



^'T^HE Male Flowers have thQh Empalements, five-parted; the 



leaves oval and equal. 

 They have no petals. 



The Filaments or rather Antherce are four, oblong and pointed, 

 joined to the leaves of the calyx. 



The 



