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6. Viburnum alnifolium. Alder-leaved Viburnum » 
This grows naturally in Carolina and other parts 
of America; rifing with a fhrubby ftalk to the height 
of eight or ten feet, covered with a fmooth purplilh 
bark, and divided into feveral branches. The leaves 
are heart-fliaped, oval, fharp-pointed, deeply fawed 
on their edges, flrongly veined, and placed oppofite 
upon long {lender footftalks. The flowers are col- 
lected 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 fucceeded 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 {lender Items 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 narrow at the bafe, but fpreading and 
divided into three fharp-pointed lobes, the middle 
one largeft, longed, and fometimes {lightly tooth- 
ed. The flowers are produced in form of the others, 
and are fucceeded by berries of the fame ihape, of 
a pretty large fize and red colour when ripe. 
VISC U M. 
MISSELTOE. 
Ciafs 22. Order 4. Dioecia Tetrandria, 
*HPHE Male Flowers have their 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 
