Viburnum. CAPEIFOLIACE^. 9 



New Mexico (Fendler), and the Sierra Nevada, California (Brewer, Bolander) : a plant with 

 foliage not unlike that of S. Canadensis. 



* * Compound cymes depressed, 5-rayed; four external rays once to thrice 5-rayed, but the ravs 

 unequal, the two outer ones stronger, or in ultimate divisions reduced to these; central rays 

 smaller and at length reduced to 3-nowered cymelets or to single flowers: pith of year-old shoots 

 bright white: "berries" sweet, never red: nutlets punctate-rugulose. 



S. Canadensis, L. Suffrutescent or woody stems rarely persisting to third or fourth year, 

 5 to 10 feet high, glabrous, except some fine pubescence on midrib and veins of leaves 

 beneath: leaflets (5 to 11) mostly 7, ovate-oval to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the lower 

 not rarely bifid or with a lateral lobe : stipels not uncommon, narrowly linear, and tipped 

 with a callous gland: fruit dark-purple, becoming black, with very little bloom. Spec. 

 i. 269 ; Michx. Fl. i. 281 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 13. S. nigra, Marsh. Arbust. 141. S. hu- 

 milis, Raf. Ann. Nat. 13. S. glauca, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 66 (not Nutt.), narrow-leaved 

 form; Bot. Mex. Bound. 71. Moist grounds, New Brunswick to the Saskatchewan, south 

 to Florida, Texas, west to the mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona ; fl. near mid- 

 summer. Nearly related to S. nigra of Eu. 



Var. laciniata. Leaflets or most of them once or twice ternately parted into lanceo^ 

 late divisions. Indian River, Florida, Palmer. A still more dissected form, in waste 

 places, Egg Harbor, Mrs. Treat, may be S. nigra, var. laciniata, of the Old World. 



S. glauca, NUTT. Arborescent, 6 to 18 feet high ; the larger forming trunks of 6 to 12 

 inches in diameter, glabrous throughout : leaflets 5 to 9, thickish, ovate to narrowly oblong ; 

 lower ones rarely 3-parted : stipels rare and small, subulate or oblong : fruit blackish, but 

 strongly whitened with a glaucous mealy bloom, larger than in <S. Canadensis. Nutt. in 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 13; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 134; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 278, in part. 

 Oregon and throughout California, common near the coast, eastward to Idaho and Nevada. 



S. Mexicana, PRESL. Arborescent, with trunks sometimes 6 inches in diameter : leaves 

 and young shoots pubescent (sometimes slightly so, sometimes cinereous or tomentulose- 

 canesceut) : leaflets, &c., nearly as preceding: fruit (as far as seen) destitute of bloom. 

 Presl. in DC. Prodr. iv. 323; Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 66, & Bot. Mex. Bound. 71. S. glauca, 

 Benth. PI. Hartw. 313 ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. in part. S. velutina, Durand in Pacif. R. Rep. 

 v. 8. California, from Plumas Co. southward to mountains of Arizona, and New Mexico 

 on the Mexican border. Glabrate forms too near S. Canadensis. (Mex.) 



3. VIBtJBNUM, L. (Classical Latin name of the WAYFARING-TREE, 



V. Lantana, of Europe.) Shrubs or small trees (of various parts of the world) ; 



with tough and flexible branches, simple and not rarely stipulate or pseudo-stipu- 



late leaves, and terminal depressed cymes of mostly white flowers, produced in 



spring or early summer. Viburnum and Opulus, Tourn. 



V. TINDS, L. (Tinus, Tourn., CErst.), the LAURESTINUS, cultivated from Europe, with puta- 

 men not flattened and ruminated albumen, is left out of view in our character of the genus, as 

 also the outlying forms with campanulate or more tubular corolla, upon which CErsted (in 

 Vidensk. Meddel. 1860) has founded genera, with more or less reason. The albumen in the 

 N. American species is even, or obscurely ruminated in the first species. 



1. Cyme radiant ; marginal flowers neutral, with greatly enlarged flat corollas 

 as in Hydrangea : drupes coral-red turning dark crimson or purple, not acid : puta- 

 men sulcate : leaves pinnately straight-veined, scurfy : winter-buds nuked. 



V. lantanoid.es, MICHX. (HOBBLEBUSH.) Low and straggling, with thickish branches, 

 sometimes 10 feet high, scurfy-pubescent on the shoots and inflorescence : leaves ample 

 (when full grown 6 inches long), conspicuously petioled, rounded-ovate, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, finely doubly serrate, membranaceous, minutely stellular-pubescent and glabrate 

 above, rusty-scurfy beneath on the 10 or 12 pairs of prominent veins, and when young also 

 on the very numerous transverse connecting veinlets : stipules small and subulate, or obso- 

 lete : fruit ovoid, flattish ; the stone moderately flattened, 3-sulcate on one face, broadly and 

 deeply sulcate on the other, and the groove divided by a strong median ridge, the edges also 



