398 PENTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Viburnum, 
JE. podagra'ria. 
FI. Dan. 670— (E. Bot. 940. E.)— Riv. Pent. 47. Podagraria. — Ger. 848— 
J. B. iii. 2. 145— Dod. 320. 2— Lob. Obs. 398. 3, and Ic. i. 700. 2— Ger• 
Em. 1001. 2—Park. 943— Pet. 25. 10— II. Ox, ix. 4. 11. 
{Radical leaves bi-ternate, stalked ; upper leaves ternate, ovate, opposite. 
Leafits taper-pointed, serrated, dark green. E.) Root creeping. Umbels 
and umbellules , spokes fourteen. Blossom white. Relh. ( Stems upright, 
one to two feet high, hollow, furrowed, leafy. Petals rather unequal. 
Plant destitute of both general and partial Involucrum. Styles , accord¬ 
ing to Smith, at length elongated to half the length of the fruit, perma¬ 
nent. E.) 
Herb Gerard. Gout-weed. Ash-weed. Orchards, gardens, and pas¬ 
tures, common. - P. May.* * 
TRIGYNIA. 
VIBUR'NUM.t Cal. with five divisions, superior : Bloss . five- 
cleft : Berry of one cell, closed : Seed one. 
V. lanta'na. Leaves heart-shaped, serrated, veined, cottony beneath. 
(1?. Bot. 331. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 341— Matth. 217*— Dod. 781— Lob. Obs. 
591. 3— Ger. Em. 1490— Kniph. 1— Wale. — Park. 1448— J. B. i. 558. 
(A large shrub, with numerous opposite branches. Flowers crowded in 
large dense cymes. Leaves oval; (finely serrated. E.) the down 
radiated, each hair consisting of several rays diverging from a point. 
Flower-leaves coloured. Blossom cloven half w r ay down, white. {Cal. 
teeth minute. E.) Summits so much united as to appear one. Berries 
black. ( Branches slender and pliant; the younger ones downy, leafy. 
E.) 
Way-faring-tree. (Mealy Guelder-rose. E.) Woods and hedges, 
in calcareous soil. Herts, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Ripple Field, 
Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. (Common in the hedges of Dorset. Pul- 
teney. At Sir John Halls’, Dunglass glen. Hooker. About Painswick. 
Mr. O. Roberts. In hedges between Southam and Leamington; and 
Watling Street Road, near Norton, Watford, &c. Northamptonshire. 
Frequent in Devonshire, as about Teignmouth, &c. E.) S. May.J 
* The leaves may be eaten early in the spring with other potherbs. Cows, sheep, and 
goats eat the plant. Horses are not fond of it. (Some writers state that the root is pungently 
acrimonious, and was formerly applied as a cataplasm in the gout. E.) 
*t* (According to Martyn, Viburna, in the plural, meant in classic authors, any shrubs 
which were used for binding or tying. E.) 
$ (It loves a moist soil, where it not only grows more rapidly than in dry situations, but 
produces more numerous and larger globes of its pale petals. Sylv. Florif. It is a pleasing 
enlivener of the varied shrubbery; amid more sombre foliage, 
- “ throwing up 
Its silver globes, light as the foaming surf 
Which the wind severs from the broken wave.” E.) 
The bark of the root is used to make bird-lime, though inferior to Holly for that purpose. 
The berries are astringent. (Evelyn says a decoction of the leaves will not only dye the hair 
