Viburnum

Guelder-rose. In botany, a-genus of the cla pent and ria, order trjgynia. Calyx five-parted, superior; corol five-cleft; berry one-seeded.. Twenty-three species; chiefly natives of the East and West Indies, a few of Europe, two common. to our own woods. The following are cultivated: y. V. lantana. Wayfaring tree. Shoots pliant, covered with a lightish-brown bark; leaves heart-shaped, serrate, veined, downy underneath; flowers white and umbelled, sucy &éeded by bunches of red berries: Found wild in cur own woods.. 2. V. opulus. Water-elder, Common fuelder-tose. This is also a native of our woeds; with large globular umbels of white flowers at the ends of the branches in great abundance; stems shrubby: There is a vafiety, constituting a tree eighteen or twenty feet high: 3. V.lentago: Pear-leaved vibarnum: 4, V. ca ino ides. Thick-leaved viburnum. 6. V.nitid am. Shining-Jeaved viburnum: 6. V.l#vigatum. Ca ioberry-bush viburfum. 97. V. nudum. Oval-leaved viburnum. 8. V; prunifolium. Plum-leaved viburnum, 9. V.dentatum. Tooth-leaved viburnam. 10. V.tin us. Laurestine or laurestinus, of which there saré many varieties, both jas imported from its native soil, the south of Europe; énd as increased in its cultivated state. All the species of viburnum, whether detiduous or evergreen, are durable in root, stem, and bravches. "They may be all propagated by layers; and will grow freely in the open ground all the year, whether in plantations or more open situations: VIG, or ViqueE, a town of Spain, in Catalonia, ahd a bishop’s see: It is seated in a fertile plain, On a small river that flows into the er, 95 miles N. of Barcélona. Lon. 2. 13 E. Lat. 41.55 N, - Vic Bicoré, a town of France, in the department of Upper Pytennees, situate on the Adour, 12 miles N. of Tarbes. Vic re Compre, a town of France; in the department of Puy de Dome, with a palace, where formerly the counts of Auvergne resided. About a mile from it are mineral springs. It is seated hear the Allier, 15 miles §.E. of Clermont: 92