Genus 2. 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



269 



I', alnifolium. 

 V. Opulus. 



2. VIBURNUM [Tourn.J L. Sp. PI. 267. 1753. 



Shrubs or trees, with entire dentate or lobed, sometimes stipulate leaves, and white or 

 rarely pink flowers in compound cymes, the outer flowers sometimes radiant and neutral. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate, its limb short, 5-toothed. Corolla rotate or short-campanulate 

 in our species, regular, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla; anthers 

 oblong, exserted. Ovary 1-3-celled ; style short, 3-lobed or 3-parted ; ovules solitary in each 

 cavity, pendulous. Drupe ovoid or globose, sometimes flattened, i-seeded. Seed compressed; 

 endosperm fleshy; embryo minute. [The ancient Latin name.] 



About 100 species, of wide geographic distribution. Besides the following, about 5 others 

 occur in the southern and western parts of North America. Type species: Viburnum Tinus L. 



* Outer flowers of the cyme large, radiant; drupe red. 

 Leaves doubly serrate, pinnately veined. 1. 



Leaves 3-lobed, palmately veined. 



** None of the flowers radiant; drupe blue or black (red in no. 3). 

 1. Leaves palmately veined, or 3-ribbed. 



Cymes i /i' i' broad, the rays short ; drupe red. 3. 



Cymes ij4'-2j4' broad, the rays slender; drupe nearly black. 4. 



2. Leaves pinnately veined. 

 a. Leaves coarsely dentate, the veins mostly prominent beneath. 

 Leaves very short-petioled, pubescent. 5. 



Petioles 3"-2o" long. 



Leaves glabrous, or with tufts of hairs in the axils beneath. 6. 



Leaves pubescent beneath, the pubescence more or less stellate. 

 Drupe globose-ovoid ; eastern and southern. 



Veins of the leaves not very prominent. 7. 



Veins very prominent on the under sides of the leaves. 8. 



Drupe oblong, twice as long as thick ; western. 9. V. mode. 



b. Leaves entire, crenulate, or serrulate, the veins not prominent. 

 Native shrubs ; drupes blue or black. 

 Cymes manifestly peduncled. 



Peduncles shorter than the cyme; leaves crenulate. 10. I 



Peduncle equalling or longer than the cyme; leaves mostly entire. n. 1 



Cymes sessile, or nearly so. 



Leaves prominently acuminate. 

 Leaves obtuse, or merely acute. 



Leaves and scarcely winged petioles glabrous, or nearly so. 13. 



Veins of lower leaf-surfaces and winged petioles tomentose. 14. 



European shrub, or small tree, escaped from cultivation; drupes red. 15. 



pauciftorutn. 

 acerifolium. 



pubescens. 



dentatum. 



scabrellum. 

 venosum. 



. cassinoides. 

 . nudum. 



12. V. Lentago. 



V . prunifolium. 

 V. rufiduhtm. 

 V. Lantana. 



i. Viburnum alnifolium Marsh. Hobble-bush. American Wayfaring Tree. 

 Moose-bush or -berry. Fig. 3957. 



J '. alnifolium Marsh. Arb. Am. 102. 1785. 

 Viburnum lanlanoides Michx. Fl. Bor. 



Am. 1 : 179. 1803. 



A shrub, with smooth purplish bark, 

 sometimes reaching a height of io, 

 widely and irregularly branching, the 

 branches often procumbent and root- 

 ing, the youngest twigs scurfy. Leaves 

 orbicular, or very broadly ovate, 

 strongly pinnately veined, short- 

 acuminate or acute at the apex, 

 usually cordate at the base, finely 

 stellate-pubescent, or at length gla- 

 brous above, scurfy with stellate pu- 

 bescence on the veins beneath, finely 

 serrate all around, 3' -8' broad ; peti- 

 oles i'-li' long; cymes sessile, 3'-S' 

 broad, the exterior flowers usually 

 radiant and neutral, about 1' broad ; 

 drupes red, becoming purple, ovoid- 

 oblong, s"-6" long ; stone 3-grooved 

 on one side, i-grooved on the other. 



In low woods, New Brunswick to 

 North Carolina, Ontario, Tennessee* 

 and Michigan. Leaves of shoots from! 

 cut stumps thin, ovate, corsely toothed. 

 May-June. Tangle-legs or -foot. Dog- 

 wood. Dogberry. Trip-toe. Witch-hopple 

 or -hobble. Winter-buds naked. 



