viburnum Opulus its snowballs is forming, The peonies are ready to burst into bloom, Rude Boreas has ceased for awhile his dread storming, And Nature at last has got rid of her gloom.
"The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects"
Thomas Cowherd
The botanical appellation of this curious shrub is viburnum oxycoccos; but there is another species of the viburnum, which is also styled "oxycoccos."
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
Forests of silver fir, with junipers and larch, girdled these flats and on their edges grew rhododendrons, scarlet Spiraea, several honeysuckles, white Clematis, and viburnum.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker