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anthers roundish. Pistil: germ inferior, roundish. Style 
none, but in its stead a turbinate gland. Stigmas three. 
Pericarp: berry roundish, one-celled. Seeds bony, round¬ 
ish.— Essential Character. Calyx five-parted, superior. 
Corolla five-cleft. Berry one-seeded. 
1. Viburnum tinus, laurustinus, or laurestine.—Leaves 
quite entire, ovate; ramifications of the veins villose-glan¬ 
dular. There are four or five varieties.—Native of the South 
of Europe and of Barbary, 
2. Viburnum tinoides. — Leaves elliptic, smooth, quite 
entire; branches and cymes round, hirsute. This is very 
like the preceding, but the leaves of viburnum tinus are ex¬ 
actly ovate, the petioles are longer, the peduncles and stem 
angular, and smooth.—Native of South America. 
3. Viburnum villosum, or hoary viburnum.—Leaves quite 
entire, ovate, hoary-villose beneath. This shrub is a fathom 
in height, with an ash-coloured bark.—Native of Jamaica, 
on the mountains in the southern part. 
4. Viburnum scandens, or climbing viburnum.—Shrubby, 
scandent; leaves oblong, serrate; cymes terminating; rays 
terminated by a very large flower.—Native of Japan. 
5. Viburnum nudum, or oval-leaved viburnum,—Leaves 
oval, somewhat wrinkled, rolled back at the edge, and ob¬ 
scurely crenulate. This has a strong stem, covered with a 
brown smooth bark, sending out woody branches on every 
side the whole length, which have a smooth purplish bark. 
—There seems to be two varieties of this shrub; one grow¬ 
ing in the northern parts of Virginia and Maryland, which 
casts its leaves in winter; the other in Carolina, which is an 
evergreen. This apparent difference is probably owing to 
climate. 
6. Viburnum prunifolium, or plum-leaved viburnum.— 
Leaves obovate, roundish and oval, smooth, sharply ser¬ 
rate ; petioles margined.—It grows naturally in most parts of 
North America. 
7. Viburnum dauricum..— Leaves ovate, serrate, dotted- 
hairy ; cymes dichotomous, few-flowered.—Native of Russia 
and Siberia. 
8. Viburnum dentatum, or tooth-leaved viburnum.— 
Leaves ovate, tooth-serrate, plaited.—Native of North Ame¬ 
rica. 
9. Viburnum plicatum, or plaited-leaved viburnum. — 
Leaves ovate, obtuse, tooth-serrate, plaited.—Native of 
Japan. 
10. Vihurnum erosum.—Leaves ovate, acuminate, erose- 
serrate, smooth; petioles tomentose.—Native of Japan. 
Viburnums vary:—1. With radiate and non-radiate flow¬ 
ers.—2. With a single style and three pistils.—3. With five 
and ten stamens. 
11. Viburnum lantana, or wayfaring tree.—Leaves cor¬ 
date, serrate, veined, tomentose beneath.—Native of most 
parts of Europe, except the most northern countries; with 
us chiefly in a calcareous soil, in woods and hedges, flower¬ 
ing in May. 
12. Viburnum tomentosum, or downy viburnum.—Leaves 
ovate, acuminate, serrate, veined, tomentose beneath; umbels 
lateral.—Native of Japan, in woods between Miaco and 
Jedo. 
13. Viburnum hirtum, or rough viburnum.—Leaves ovate, 
serrate, villose; petioles rough-haired.—Native of Japan. 
14. Viburnum acerifolium, or'maple-leaved viburnum.— 
Leaves three-lobed, acuminate, sharply serrate; petioles 
hairy, without glands.—Native of Virginia. 
15. Viburnum orientale, or oriental viburnum.—Leaves 
three-lobed, acuminate, grossly and bluntly toothed; petioles 
smooth, and without glands.-—Native of the Levant and 
Russia. 
16. Viburnum opulus, or water elder. — Leaves three- 
lobed, acuminate-toothed; petioles glandular, smooth. It is 
a small bushy tree.—Native of Europe; common with us in 
woods and hedges in watery places. 
The American shrub has the twigs of a shining red co¬ 
lour ; whereas, in the European, they are green and opaque. 
—Native of South Carolina, and some other parts of North 
America. 
R N U M. 
The beautiful variety so common in plantations, bearing 
large round bunches of abortive flowers only, and grouping 
so elegantly with lilac and laburnum in the early part of 
summer, will rise to the height of eighteen or twenty feet, 
if permitted to stand. From their extreme whiteness, and 
swelling out into a globular form, some country people 
have given this shrub the name of Snow-ball tree, which 
surely is preferable to the common appellation of Guelder 
Rose, and is conformable to the Schneeball of the Germans. 
17. Viburnum dilatatum. — Leaves obovate, acuminate, 
unequally-toolhed, villose.—Native of Japan. 
18. Viburnum macrophyilum, or long-leaved viburnum. 
—Leaves obovate, acuminate, toothed, smooth.—Native of 
Japan. 
19. Viburnum cuspidatum.—.Leaves cuspidate, serrate, 
villose.—Native of Japan. 
20. Viburnum lentago, or pearl-leaved viburnum.—Leaves 
broad-ovate; acuminate, sharply serrate; petioles margined, 
curled.—Native of North America. 
21. Viburnum cassinoides, or thick-leaved viburnum.— 
Leaves lanceolate, even, rolled back at the edge, indistinctly 
crenate.—Native of North America. 
22. Viburnum nitidum, or shining-leaved viburnum.— 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, shining above, indistinctly serrate, 
or entire.—Native of North America. 
23. Viburnum lsevigatum, or cassioberry bush.—Leaves 
lanceolate, even, remotely serrate, quite entire at the base.— 
Native of South Carolina. 
Propagation and Culture. —The laurustinuses are pro¬ 
pagated by laying down their young branches, which put 
out roots very freely; so that when they are layed in 
autumn, they will be well rooted by that time twelve 
months, when they should be taken from the old plants, 
and may either be planted where they are to remain, or into 
a nursery for two years to get strength. All the others may 
be propagated in the same manner. 
VIC, a town of France, department of the Meurthe, with 
3100 inhabitants. A mine of excellent salt was discovered 
here in 1820 ; 12 miles north of Luneville. 
VIC B1GORRE, a town of France, department of the 
Upper Pyrenees. Population 8100; 10 miles north of 
Tarbes 
VIC EN CARLADES, a town of France, department of 
the Cantal, with 2100 inhabitants; 9 miles north-east of 
Aurillac. 
VIC LE COMTE, a town of France, in Auvergne, not 
far from the river Allier. Population 3100; 17 miles south¬ 
east of Clermont. 
VIC DESSOS, a town of France, department of the Ar- 
riege ; 6 miles south-west of Tarascon. 
VIC FEZENSAC, a town of France, department of the 
Gers, near the Pyrehees; 13 miles north-west of Auch. 
VI'CAR, s. [ vicarius , Lat.] The incumbent of an ap¬ 
propriated or impropriated benefice. 
Procure the vicar 
To stay for me at church, ’twixt twelve and one. 
To give our hearts united ceremony. Shalcspeare. 
Yours is the prize; 
The vicar my defeat, and all the village see. Dryden. 
A landed youth, whom his mother would never suffer to 
look into a book for fear of spoiling his eyes, upon hearing 
the clergy decried, what a contempt must he entertain, not 
only for his vicar at home, but for the whole order. Swift. 
—One who performs the functions of another; a substitute, 
—An archbishop may not only excommunicate and inteiN 
diet his suffragans, but his efcw-general may do the same. 
Ayliffe. 
VPCARAGE, s. The benefice of a vicar.—This gentle¬ 
man lived in his vicarage to a good old age, and having 
never deserted his flock, died vicar of Bray. Swift. 
VICARELLO, a town of Italy, in the States of the 
Church; 17 miles south of Viterbo. 
VICA'RIAL, adj. Belonging to a vicar.—Wood is in 
some countries a rectorial, and in some a vicarial tithe. 
Blackstone. 
