2. S. albus (L.) Blake.—?Snow Berry. ature Len tae e5-1.5 m. tall, 
its branches erect or ascending, the mature bark rown, roughened, the 
younger bark clay-colored,or light-browm, longitudinally striate 
the branchlets widely spreading, glabrous; leaf-blades 
or oval, blunt, rounded at the base or frequently cuneate, 
ften bluish green, dull, glabrous, the lower paler, sanetimes pubes- 
coe aeriete: 2-4 mm. Tong; flowers in terminal racemes 1-3 om. 
by small connate ovate bractlets; calyx lobes triangular ovate » 5-125 mn. 
the lobes rounded, 
8 toward the base, 
Style included, the former 
arching over the stigma,both more or less concealed by the hair; berries snow 
white, 5-10 m. in diaméter, globose. ——— (8. racemosus Michx.) 
Cammon throughout our region in semi-ma 
in meadows and along roadways. 
ae 
var. pauciflorus Rob#ins. ——? Snaller, “subgesting & sun-form, the leaves 
1.562.5 cme long, thicker and more glaucous; flowers few in each raceme or 
even solitary in the axils. 
ture brushy woods, along streams, 
