April, 1914.] The Honeysuckle Family in Ohio. 303 



broad; fruit a red globose or oval dnipe f to | inch in diameter, 

 very acid, translucent; stone not groo\'ed, flat, orbicular. Low 

 fields and woods. Lake, Geauga, Champaign. 



10. Viburnum ainifolium Marsh. Hobblcbush. A shrub 

 with smooth purplish bark, branches often procumbent, irregular 

 and wide spreading; young twigs often scurfy; leaves orbicular or 

 very broadly ovate, apex short acuminate or acute, base usually 

 cordate, upper surface usually becoming glabrous, lower covered 

 with a stellate pubescence especially along the veins, margin 

 finely serrate, \\ to 2| inches broad, 1| to 3 inches long, petioles 

 I to H inches long; cymes sessile, 3| to oh inches broad, outer 

 flowers large usually about one inch in diameter; fruit a red drupe, 

 becoming purple, oblong, | to 1| inches long; stone three-grooved 

 on one side, one-grooved on the other. In low woods. Ashtabula 

 and Lake Counties. 



Symphoricarpos [Dill.] Ludw. 



Shrubs with opposite branches; leaves mostly entire, simple, 

 short petioled, flowers mostly white or pink, bisporangiate, 

 usually somewhat zygomorphic, tetracyclic or pentacyclic; corolla 

 campanulate or salverform, often somewhat lipped, and gibbous at 

 the base; cal3^x nearly globular; stamens as many as the corolla 

 lobes; inflorescence axillary or in terminal clusters; ovulary 

 4-locular, two cavities containing vestigial ovules, the other two 

 each containing a single suspended ovule; style slender; fruit a 

 2-seeded berry; seeds oblong with a small embryo. 



Key to the Species. 



1. Leaves usually glabrous, sometimes slightly pubescent beneath; flowers 

 in few-flowered axillary and terminal clusters; style glabrous; berries 

 snow white. 5. racemosus. 



1. Leaves glabrous above, usually soft pubescent beneath; flowers in dense 

 axillary clusters; style bearded; berries purplish red. 



5. symphoricarpos. 



1. Symphoricarpos racemosus Mx. Snowberry. An erect 

 alrncst glabrous shrub; leaves oval, obtuse at both ends, glabrous 

 above, sometimes slightly pubescent beneath, f to 1| inches long, 

 I to 1| inches wide, margin entire, wavy, or slightly dentate when 

 young; petioles | inch long; flower clusters terminal and axillary, 

 the terminal one irregularly spicate; corolla campanulate, base 

 gibbous, bearded within, style glabrous; fruit a white globose 

 berry about i to | inch in diameter. In waste places and along 

 river banks. Rather general. 



2. Symphoricarpos symphoricarpos (L.) MacM. Ccral-bcrry. 

 A shrub 1 to o feet in height with purplish usually pube'scent 

 twigs; leaves oval to ovate, entire or undulate, glabrous above, 

 usually soft pubescent beneath, f to If inches long, | to 1 inch 



