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and obsoletely crenulate; petioles naked ; cymes peduncu- 

 late. Willd. Spec. I. p. 1487. Mill, icoji. p. 183. t, 

 274. Mich. Fl.L]).n^. PwrjAi^/. I. p. 201. Big. 

 Bost.p.lO. Elliott Sk.].Y>. 365. W a It. Car. \). l\6, 

 Roem, <$/• Schult. VI. p. 631. V.squamatum Willd. 

 Enum. Hort, Beroi. p. 337. R. & S. 1. c. 637. Cold. J^o- 

 xeb. 59. 

 A shrub 8 — 10 feet high. Leaves about 4 inches long, often 

 obovate, slightly acuminate, attenuate at the base, punctate and 

 reticulately veined beneath ; petioles and peduncles with a fer- 

 ruginous scaly pubescence. Cyme on a peduncle 1 — 2 inches 

 long. Flowers crowded, very small. Berries oval, dark blue. 

 Hab. In swamps. Abundant in the pine barrens of New-Jer- 

 sey. In the cedar swamp, near New-Durham, N. J. Near 

 Boston, Massachusetts. £ ig e low. Litchfield, Connecticut. 

 Brace. Fairfield, New-York. Had ley. June. 



5. V. Lantanoides Mich-: leaves orbicular-cordate, 

 abruptly acuminate ; nerves and petioles pulverulent-tomen- 

 tose, unequally serrate; cymes closely sessile. Mich, FL 

 I. p. 179. P?<rsA F/.. I. p. 202. R o em. ^ S c hult. 

 VI. p. 633. V. Lcmtana jS. grandifolium A i t. Kew. I. p. 

 372. 



A shrub 4 — 8 feet high, with flexuous and often procumbent 

 branches. Leaves nearly as broad as long ; nerves beneath 

 very conspicuous and covered with a rusty down ; petioles 

 nearly an inch long. Cymes generally with 2 leaves at the 

 base, with several of the lateral flowers abortive and very 

 large. Berries at first red, but nearly black when quite ripe, 

 Hab. In rocky woods and on mountains. Plentiful in the west- 

 ern parts of the State of New-York, &c. May — June. Hack- 

 berry. 



S.y.dentatumL.: nearly smooth; leaves on long pe- 

 tioles, orbicular-ovate, dentate-serrate, subplicate; axils of 

 the veins pubescent beneath; cymes pedunculate ; fruit sub- 

 globose. Sp. pi, 3S4. Willd. Spec. I. y.\4ii8. Pursh 

 F/. I. p. 202. Big. Bast, ^.10. El lio it Sk. ]. p. 364. 

 Roem. (^ Schult. VI, p. 632. V. dentatum x. lueidum 

 A i I. Kew. I. p. 372, V, dentatum |S. glabcllmn Mich. FL 

 I. p. 179. 



A shrub about 8 feet high, with very straight and angular 

 branches. Leaves about 2 inches long, with coarse acute ser- 

 ratures or teeth ; ciliate nerves very prominent beneath, forked 

 towards the margin ; petioles three-fourths of an inch long. 

 Cymes terminal, large, expanding. Berries blue, small, acute, 

 crowned with the 5-toothed calyx; seed ovate, convex on one 

 side, and a deep groove on the other, dividing it into 2 lobes. 

 Hab. In moist woods and hedges ; common. June. Arrow- 

 wood . 



