172 HONKYSfCKLK FAMILY. 



6. VIBURNUM, AR ROW-WOOD, &c. (Ancient Latin name, of un- 

 certain meaning.) Flowers white, or nearly -o. iu spring or early summer: 

 fruit ripe in autumn. 



1 . Flowers all alike, small, and perfect. 

 # Cult, or planted from S. Eurt>/ . u-ith evergreen smooth entire leaves. 



V. TimiS, LAI-HI.STIN i <. Nut hardy N., hut a common house-plant, 

 winter-flowering, or planted nut in summer ; leaves oblong ; fruit dark purple. 



* * Wild species, some occasionally planted: leaves deciduous, at least N. 



*- Lcares not lobed nor coarsely toothed, smooth or with some minute scurf: fnnt 



Hack or u'itli a bluish bloom. 



++ Leaves glossy, finely and evenly serrate with very sharp teeth. 



V. LentagO, Sm:i:i'-r.i:nuY. Tree 15 -30 hi-h, common in moist 

 grounds, ehielly N. ; leaves ovate, con-picuon.-ly pointed, on long margined 

 petioles ; e\ me hroud, sessile ; fruit oval, j' or mure long, sweet, eatable. 



V. prunif61ium, Mi.w'ic II\w. Dry soil, from Conn, to 111. and S. : 

 hardly so tall as the preceding, with smaller and oval mostly liltint leaves. 

 -w- -W- Leaves entire or with a Jew wavy or crc.nate small tat/i, lluckish. 



V. obovatum. Along streams from Virginia S. : shrub with obovate 

 leaves seldom over 1' lonu', and small sessile cyni' 1 -. 



V. nudum, WITIIK-ROD. Swamps, from New England to Florida ; with 

 leaves oval, oblong, or almost lanceolate, not glossy ; cyme on a peduncle ; fruit 

 roundish. 



H i- Leaves coarsely toothed, strongly Jeather-ueined, the veins prominently marked, 

 straii/lit anil simple or nearly so : fruit small : cyme peiluncled. 



V. dentatum, AKKOW-WOOD (the -terns having been used by the Indians 

 to make arrow.-). Cmmnuii in wet .-oil, 5 - 10 high, smooth, with a-h-colored 

 bark, pule and broadly ovate evenly sliurp-toothed leaves, on slender petioles, 

 and bright blue fruit. 



V. molle, SOFT A. From Kentucky S., -oi't do\vny, with less sharply 

 toothed oval or obovate leaves, on -lender petioles, and blue oily t'ruit. 



V. pub^SCeus, DOWNY A. Rocky grounds, N. ^ \V. ; a low and strag- 

 gling shrub, with ovate or oblong and acute or taper-pointed leaves, having 

 rather lew coarse teeth, their lower surface and the very .-hort petioles sot't-downy ; 

 fruit dark purple. 



-(--*-(- Leaves l>oth <-im i-.sv/// toothed anil sm/u ir/mt 3-lobed, roundish, 3 - 5-nbbed 

 from the, hose and veiny : rymos slender-peduneled, small : frmt rl. 



V. acerif61ium, M vri.i:-i.i:\\ i;n A. or !)(>( KMACKIK. Sbrul) 3-6 



high, in rocky woods, with .'{-ribbed and ,'5-lobed leaves sot't-downy beneath, their 

 pointed lobes di\ -er:: h iu ; -tami'ii- slender. 



V. paucifl6rurn. Cold wood-, oulv far N. or on mountains; with almost 

 -month leaves 5-rilibcd at base and .'5-lobed at summit; cyme t'ew-tlowered ; 

 fruit sour. 



'2. flowers rouml tin man/in of the ci/iitf neutral (irithout staim-nx <>f pistils) m/it 

 i-ery i/n/r/i A//-./-/- //,(/,/ tin f< iiili mns. Hydrangea-like and showy : petioles 

 bearing <////,/// n/ipi m/m/is irhir/i imilnl: sti/iii/is : fritil nil, sour. 



V. Opulus, Ci;ANi!i:ui:Y-Tr;KE. Tall and nearly -mooth shrub, with gray 

 bark, scaly bmU, :? - 5-ribbeil and strongly :i-lobed Knaves, the lobe- pointed and 

 commonly few-toothed, and cymes peduncled. The wild form in low grounds 

 N. ^ !'.. ; the juie\ acid fruit bright red, used as a -ub-titute for cranberries 

 (\\bence the name of IIn;n ( 'i: v MM 1:1: Y-nrsii ). The loiiLT-culti vateil form 

 from Kurope, planted for ornament, under the name of (u 1:1 M:I; ROSE or 

 SNOWBALL-TRKE, has most of the ilowcrs of the e\ me changed into enlarged 

 corollas. 



V. lantanoides, HOBP.LK-IU <it (popular name from the stragtrlinu or 

 rcciininu branches taking root at the end, and forming loops ; the botanical 

 name because the leaves resemble the V. LAXTANA or WAYFARING-TREE of 



