6o Rhodora [March 



base, the larger tiowers and fruits and the reddish brown branches, 

 (iray quotes " F. dcfitatuyn semitomentosuvi Michx., in part" as well 

 under his V. molle as under V. pubescens and refers to the latter spe- 

 cies, Michaux's specimens from Lake Champlain, but as Michaux 

 himself excludes those specimens from his var. semitomentosum and 

 quotes in his Flora as locality only " in Carolinae inferioris dumeto- 

 sis," it seems hardly correct to quote part of his var. semitomentosuiu 

 .as synonymous with V. pubescens. 



Viburnum venosum, Britton, Man. 871 (1901); Rehder in Sar- 

 gent's Trees & Shrubs i 185, pi. 43 (1903). V. molle. Gray, Syn. 

 Kl. I, 2:11, in part (1884); Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 1:184, 

 tig. 115, in part (1889); Watson .S; Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 218, 

 in part (1890); Sargent, Card. c\: For. 4 : 29, fig. 8 (i8gi); Zabel, 

 MoUer's Deutsch. (iartn.-Zeit. 6:267, fig. (1891); Koehne, Deutsch. 

 Dendr. 537 (1893); not Michaux. V. Hanceanian. Dippel, 1. c. 

 J 76, fig. 107 (1889), not Maximowicz. 



This species ranges from eastern Massachusetts to Pennsylvania 

 and Delaware, and reappears in a peculiar form in S. Carolina. It 

 differs from the preceding species chiefly in the more numerous and 

 more prominent veins, the acute callous-tipped and more numerous 

 teeth, the generally subcordate leaves, glabrous or nearly so above, 

 those below the infiorescence suborbicular, the smaller fiowers and 

 fruits and the grayish or yellowish brown branches. In European 

 gardens it has long been in cultivation and is occasionally met with 

 as V. pubescens, K nepalensc and V. asiaticum. The two following 

 varieties merit distinction. 



V. VKNosuM, var. Canbyi, var. nov. Differs from the type by its 

 thinner, less pubescent leaves, often only pubescent along the mid- 

 rib beneath, especially those below the inflorescence much larger, 

 often 5 to 8 cm. broad and the larger inflorescence like the young 

 branchlets only slightly pubescent. This is apparently the form men- 

 tioned by Torrey &: Gray in their Flora as intermediate between V. 

 dentatuvi and K dentatutn scabrellum. Some remarks regarding the 

 pubescence in the description of V. dental urn by Darlington ^ and by 

 Beck'^ refer probably also to this form. — Delaware, Wilmington, 

 July 2 and Aug. 22, 1902, Christiana, Aug. 25, 1902, New Castle, 

 July 2. 1902. IV. M. Canby. Pennsylvania, Westchester, Oct. 8, 



1 Fl. Cestr. ed. 2, 203 (KS37). 

 M?ot. U. S. 145 (1856). 



