VIBUR'NUM OP'ULUS. 
YELLOW- FRUITED GUELDER-ROSE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. TRIGYN1A. 
Natural Order. 
CAPRIFOLIACE^E. 
Garden 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
Variety. 
10 feet. 
May, June. 
Shrub. 
in 1840. 
No. 1238. 
Viburnum is derived from the Latin verb vieo, to 
bind ; in allusion to the pliability of the twiggy 
branches of the plant which first received the 
name. Some botanists believe that the Viburnum 
lantanum is the plant thus designated by the an- 
cients ; others that it was some species of Willow. 
Martyn, in his notes on Virgil, says, “The ancient 
critics seem to have called any shrub that was fit for 
this purpose (binding faggots) Viburnum, but the 
more modern authors have restrained that name to 
express only our wayfaring- tree.” The wayfaring- 
tree we may mention, is the Viburnum lantanum, 
or wild Guelder-rose, a native of England, growing 
in calcareous soils. 
The Guelder-rose is deduced from the name Guel 
derland, formerly a province in the Netherlands, but 
now connected with F ranee. The Germans call the 
plant Schneeball ; and the French, Boule de Neige; 
terms which are synonymous with our Snowball, a 
significant name, and one that is used in some parts 
of England for this flower. 
1 he variety of the \ iburnum opulus, now pub- 
lished, is by no means common, it is the yellow- 
