Viburnum lantanoïdes.
1784. The night was exceedingly chilly in this situation, which was between two extremely high mountains, and in a very tall wood, the ground covered with an underwood of moose bush.—M. Cutler, ‘Life,’ &c. (1888), i. 102. (N.E.D.)
1832. Moose-bush [note: or “Moosewood,” Dirca palustris] is a small tree, or large shrub, not uncommon in the forest, which, with the noble animal whose name it bears, seems to retreat, every where, before the advances of cultivation.—Williamson, ‘History of Maine,’ i. 117.
