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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
Vibitniuin Opuius, also native, has the common name 
of hig-h crani)errv, Init is not related to the true cranberries 
of tlic liearh family and g-enits Vacciniiun. I cannot re- 
mem1>cr to have seen this wild in Rhode Island. The ber- 
ries of lK>di these species are bright red and handsome, those 
of Viburnum Opuhis having- a peculiar translucent bril- 
Olher species of Viburnum in our state are the maple- 
]>Iue or dark-purple berries; the Vibuniuui dcntatiiin. with 
sharp-toothed ovate leaves and almost metallic blue berries; 
and the sweet viburnum or sheep-berry, a tree from fifteen 
to thirty feet high and with edible fruit. 
These shrul)s are very apt to be coirfused by the ordi- 
nary observer with some of the cornuses or do.c^woods. also 
known as cornels. The entire, and peculiarly veined leaves 
(if these, however, at once put one on guard. Among them 
occur our glorious flowering dogwood — and its pretty little 
dwarf imitator, the bunch-l>erry. The.se are not of the pois- 
onous dog^.voods, which are sumacs, with compound leaves 
and dirty-gra}-- berries. 
The cornel> always impress upon the writer the mistake 
ne commit in so often going far afield for ornamental shrubs 
wlien rhcy grow, as it were, at our outi doors. Think of 
the azalea^, rl^.d^dendrons. laurels, andromedas, not to 
speak of many others. 
Br .wu Uniz-crsity, Providence, R. I. 
Xkw tsE FOR Hops.— The time-honored use <>f hops 
>rew'ncr rnay in this tem|>erance age ultimately give way 
-her u^^es. In the Old World the voung and tender lips 
■c ix.iled nnd used as a crarni.sh f.r meats. They are re- 
- -ed to have a deiid* ais nmty flavor. Funher experiment^ 
■. doubtless i)e necessar\- before hop gn.wers turn from 
rvewing to l>oihng. 
