WAYFARING-TREE. 



Viburnum lantana. 



GUELDER ROSE. 

 Viburnum opulus. 



Natural Order — Caprifoliace^. 

 Class — pENTANDRiA. Order — Monogynia. 



These two shrubs, and the common garden 

 Laurustinus, Viburnum Tinus, agree in having a 

 funnel-shaped corolla of one petal, and a calyx 

 divided into five deep segments, which remains 

 attached to the fruit, a single-seeded berry, until 

 the latter is ripe. 



The Wayfaring-tree may easily be distinguished 

 at all seasons by its numerous pliant mealy 

 branches, which in winter are ornamented by 

 hoary button-like buds, and in summer are clothed 

 by heart-shaped leaves, covered with mealy down. 

 The flowers are white, and grow in clusters at the 

 extremities of the shoots, and are succeeded by 

 flattened berries, which as they ripen become red, 

 and finally black. A modern poet, William 

 Howitt, captivated by the pleasing name, lias 

 addressed an Ode to the Wayfaring-tree, and 

 eulogises its " coronets of fragrant snow," — a me- 

 taphor the propriety of which any one who knows 

 the tree will find it diflicult to discover, the flowers 

 being by no means attractive. It would seem to 



