SHEEPBERRY; NANNYBERRY (Viburnum Lentago, Linn.). Bush to e5 feet. Small, round-headed tree of many slim, drooping branches. Bark brown, broken into thick, scaly plates. Leaves ovate, taper-pointed, finely saw-toothed. rounded to short, winged, and grooved petiole; at first bronze green, shining, coated with red hairs, on ribs; at maturity smooth, pale beneath, with black dots; length t to 3 inches; autumn colors, orange and red. Flowers April to June, in
creamy, fragrant cymes, flat, 3 to 5 inches across, perfect. Fruit flat clusters of oval, dark-blue drupes, rather juicy, on coral-red stems, drooping; stone solitary, large. Dist.: Rocky hillsides, forest borders, fence rows, Province of Quebec, • through states +o Wyoming; south to Georgia and Kansas. Cultivated.