POPULAR FLORA. 
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2. Sweet V. or Sheep-berry. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined 
footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Lentago. 
3. Black-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. V. prunifolium, 
4. Arrow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straight veins, 
smooth; cymes small, stalked; fruit small, bright blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. dentatum. 
5. Maple-leaved V. or Dockmackie. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, 
downy beneath ; cymes long-stalked. Rocky woods: a shrub. V. acerifdlium. 
* * Flowers at the margin of the cyme neutral, consisting merely of a large and flat corolla, white 
(just as in Hydrangea, p. 69, and Fig. 169.) 
6. Snowball V. or Cranberry tree. Leaves with 3 pointed lobes, smooth ; fruit red, sour. 
Swamps, N. — The Snowball-tree or Guelder-Rose is a cultivated state of this, with all the 
flowers become neutral. V. Opulus. 
7. Hobblebush V. Branches long and spreading, often taking root; leaves large, round-ovate or 
heart-shaped, many-veined, scurfy beneath ; cyme sessile, very broad; fruit red, turning blackish. 
Damp woods, N. V. lantanoldes. 
47. MADDER FAMILY. Order RUBIACEiE. 
Well distinguished by its regular monopetalous corolla, bearing 4 or 5 stamens alternate 
with its lobes, and itself borne on the ovary (the calyx being coherent) ; and the leaves 
in whorls, or else opposite and with stipules between them. 
391 399 
593. Piece of Madder, in flower. 394. Half of a flower, magnified. 395. Young fruits. 396. Ripe fruit. 
$97, Common Bluets. 398 Section of a flower lengthwise, magnified, and the corolla laid open. 399. Corolla of another flower Mid 
open, and the style. 
