Viburnum. CAPRIFOLIACEiE. 15 



p. ferrugineum : lower surface of the petiole and midrib when j-oung 

 covered with reddish-brown wool. 



Dry woods and thickets, Canada? and Southern part of New York ! and 

 Pennsylvania! to Georgia, /i. N. Carolina ! and Georgia! to Louisiana! 

 and Arkansas ! May. — Shrub or tree 8-20 feet high, with numerous abortive 

 branches or spurs. Leaves 1 to nearly 3 inches long, mostly rounded ; the 

 petiole more distinctly margined in the upper than in the lower leaves, about 

 half an inch long; in var. /i. clothed with deciduous reddish pubescence or 

 tomentum, which consists of chafF-like laciniate scales rather than proper 

 hairs. Cyme about 3 inches in diameter. Fruit nearly half an inch long 

 (in j3. more roundish than in the northern plant), bluish-black when ripe, 

 glaucous, compressed : the nucleus much compressed. — Black Haw. Sloe. 



3. V. Lentago (Linn.) : leaves ovate, conspicuously acuminate, finely 

 serrate with sharp slightly uncinate teeth, somewhat membranaceous, gla- 

 brous; the lower surface and particularly the midrib and (undulate) mar- 

 gined petioles dotted with minute scales Avhen young ; cymes sessile ; fruit 

 oval.— Linn.! spec, l.p.268; Michx. ! fl. I. p. 178; Ell. sk. 1. ^.365; 

 Wats, dendr. Brit. t. 21 ; Torr. ! fl. 1. p. 318 ; Bigd. fl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 

 116 ; DC! jirodr. 4. p. 325 ; Hook. I. c. ; DarlingCfl. Cest. p. 325. 



Woods and banks of streams, Canada ! (from the Saskalchawan) and 

 throughout the Northern States! to Kentucky! and the mountains of Geor- 

 gia. May. — Tree 15-20 feet high. Leaves usually broadly ovate or oval, 

 about 3 inches long, sometimes slightly cordate ; the petiole 6-8 lines long, 

 sometimes covered, as well as the midrib, with rusty scales. Cymes widely 

 spreading. Fruit somewhat compressed, half an inch long, bluish-black 

 when ripe, with a glaucous bloom ; the pulp thin and sweetish : nucleus 

 broadly oval, nearly flat on both sides. 



4. V. ohovafum (Walt.) : leaves obovate or cuneate-obovate, (small) gla- 

 brous, somewhat coriaceous, shining above, mostly obtuse, entire, or often 

 acutely denticulate above the middle ; cymes sessile ; fruit ovoid-globose, 

 shining.— T'F«Z<. Car. p. 116; Poir. diet. b. p. 658; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 201 ; 

 Ell.sk. I. p. 366; Lodd. lot. cab. t. 1476; DC! prodr. 4. p. 326. V. 

 cassinoides, 'Mill. diet. no. 9? (not of Linn.); Willd. ! spec. 1. p. 1491 

 (excl. syn.), d^e/iMm. ^^. 327; Michx. ! fl. 1. p. 179. V. Ifevigatum, Ait. 

 Ketv. (ed. 1.) 1. p. 371 ; Willd. spec. 1. p. 1492, Sfenum. I. c. ; Pursh,fl. 1. 

 p. 202 ; Ell. sk. I. p. 367 ; DC. I. c. 



Shady banks of rivers, &c. Virginia to Georgia ! and Florida ! April- 

 May. — Shrub 2-8 feet high, with numerous branches, which are dotted when 

 young with minute scales. Leaves 1-li inch long, and 3-8 lines wide, on 

 short petioles, often minutely dotted beneath ; those of the flowering branches 

 mostly entire; those of the sterile branches frequently acute and sharply den- 

 ticulate or toothed. Cymes small. Fruit about one-third of an inch long, 

 apparently not glaucous, black, sweetish. — Readily distinguished by its 

 small shining leaves, small and somewhat simple cymes, &c. 



5. V. elliptieuin (Hook.) ; leaves elliptical, with 3—5 parallel veins, obtuse, 

 coarsely serrate, chiefly towards the summit ; the lower surface, particularly 

 the veins, very hirsute; petiole short; cymes pedunculate, dense; ovary 

 either verv hairy or glabrous ; fruit oval-globose (black). Hook. fl. Bor.- 

 Am. l.p.'280. 



Shady woods of the Oregon, Douglas, Nuttall ! — A low shrub. Leaves 

 about 2 inches long, having from 3 to 5 principal nerves S])ringirig from 

 the base. Ovary clothed with long hairs ; in one specimen quite glabrous. 

 Hook. 



6. V. dentatum (Linn.) : leaves roundish-ovate, often slightly cordate^ 

 coarsely and sharply toothed, acute or somewhat acuminate, appearing pli- 



