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of seven opposite, ovate, long-pointed serrate leaflets. Flowers 

 rose-color, about a half inch broad, either perfect, or the stami- 

 nate and pistillate separate on the same plant. Flowers in 

 sufficient numbers to make the plant quite showy in spring. 

 Fruit in a leathery capsule, the size and form shown in fig. 49. 

 The kernel of the nut rather pleasant tasted, but unwholesome, 

 containing marked emetic properties. A small, handsome tree, 

 tw^enty feet high, but more commonly a shrub. In Texas and 

 Eastern New Mexico. Cultivated in the South as an ornament- 

 al tree, also in France, but said to be somewhat tender in the 

 gardens of Paris. Propagated from seeds, suckers, or by graft- 

 ing on stocks of the common Western Buckeye. 



YiBURKUM, Linn. — Arrotu-Wood, Etc, 



A large genus of evergreen and deciduous shrubs, a few are 

 small trees, with simple, but commonly toothed, and sometimes 

 deeply lobed leaves. Flowers showy, mostly white, in com- 

 pound, terminal, flattish clusters. Fruit a drupe, containing a 

 single flattish seed. The genus is represented by about a dozen 

 species in the United States, two of which extend entirely- 

 across the continent. Only two or three of our indigenous spe- 

 cies grow to a hight of twenty feet. 



Yiburniun Leutago, Linn. — Sheep Berry. — Leaves ovate, strongly 

 pointed, very sharply serrate, smooth, the long margined peti- 

 oles and midrib, sprinkled with rusty-colored glands. Flowers 

 white, slightly fragrant. Fruit oval, about a half inch long, 

 blue-black, with a sweetish, rather mealy edible pulp. A hand- 

 some little tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with hard, yellow- 

 ish, strongly-scented wood. From Hudson's Bay in British 

 America, southward to Georgia, in moist soils, also west to 

 Iowa. 



V. prnKirolium, Linn. — Black Haw. — Leaves broadly oval, ob- 

 tuse at both ends, finely and sharply serrate, smooth and shin- 

 ing above. Flowers in large sessile clusters. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 

 black, edible. A common large shrub or small tree, fifteen to 

 twenty feet high, in dry, rich woods, from the New England 

 States, south to Florida, and westward to Texas and Missouri. 



Y. Opulus, Linn. — Cranberry Tree. — Leaves strongly three- 

 lobed, broadly wedge-shaped or truncate at base, the lobes 

 pointed and toothed on the sides, entire in the sinuses. Mar- 

 ginal flowers of the cluster destitute of stamens and pistils, but 

 many times larger than the other, forming a kind of ray, which 



