16 CAPRIFOLIACEiE. Viburnum. 



cate from the strong and nearly simple straight veins, glabrous and shining 

 above, pale beneath, with tufts of villous hairs in the axils of the veins, slight- 

 ly pilose-ciliate; cymes pedunculate, nearly glabrous ; fruit small, globose- 

 ovoid ; the nucleus grooved or excavated on one side and obtusely ridged on 

 the other. — Linn. ! spec. 1. p. 268 ; .Tacq. hort. Vindob. 1. 1. 36 ; Pursh,fl. 

 1. p. 202 ; Torr. ! fl.l. p. 319 ; DC. ! prodr. 4. p. 326 ; HooTc. fl. Bor.-Am. 

 1. p, 280 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 203. V. dentatum var. lucidum, Ait. Keio. 

 {ed. 1) 1. p. 372. V. dentatum var. glabellum, Michx. partly. 



13. ? scahrellum : young branchlets and peduncles scabrous and often hairy; 

 leaves (often large) roundish-cordate or ovate, coarsely and rather obtusely 

 toothed, pubescent beneath ; petioles and peduncles shorter. — V. dentatum 

 (a. & ii. chiefly), Michx. ! fl. 1. p. 179 ; Ell. sJc. 1. p. 365. 



Swamps and low grounds; a. Canada! and Northern States! to Vir- 

 ginia, /i. S. Carolina and Georgia ! to Florida! and Louisiana! June. (i. 

 March-May. — Sbrub 8-15 feet high (the wood hard), with obtusely angular 

 gray branches ; the 3'oung vigorous shoots straight and slender. Fruit deep 

 blue, or bluish-black when fully ripe, with very little pulp : nucleus with a- 

 deep longitudinal groove on one side, and the edges incurved, so that the 

 transverse section is somewhat reniform ; but sometimes there are two shal- 

 low grooves, and the edges scarcely incurved. — The northern plant is A'ery 

 common, and uniform in appearance : the leaves are 2-3 inches long and of- 

 ten of nearly the same width, with strong simply-forked veins, and (]uite gla- 

 brous, except the tufts in the axils of the veins, and a few scattered hairs on 

 the young petioles and veins beneath; the peduncle is 2 or 3 inches in length ; 

 and the drupes about 3 lines long. But in Pennsylvania this same plant be- 

 comes more pubescent ; a few scattered hairs often appearing on the upper 

 surface of the leaves, while the youno; petioles and peduncles are clothed with 

 separate or fasciculate hairs. A still more pubescent plant abounds in the 

 Southern States ; the leaves of which (sometimes 4 inches in breadth, but 

 usually scarcely half that size,) are almost villous or velvetv when voung 

 witb somewhat fasciculate hairs, in part only deciduous : the peduncles are 

 about an inch long, and the drupes 4 lines in length. This may very proba- 

 bly be a distinct species, but we are unable to distinguish it satisfactorily as 

 such. — Arrow-icood. 



7. V. pubescens (Pursh) : leaves ovate or oval-oblong, acuminate, coarsely 

 toothed, often somewhat cordate, appearing slightly plicate from the straight 

 sparingly branched veins, somewhat hairy above ; the lower surface, with 

 the very short petioles, villous-tomentose or velvety; cyme pedunculate, 

 nearly glabrous; fruit (small) oblong; the much compressed nucleus slightly 

 2-grooved on one side and obtusely ridged on the other. — Pursh, fl. 1. p. 202 

 (e'xcl. the habitat, chiefly); Torr. ! fl. 1. p. 320; DC! prodr. 4. p. 326 ; 

 Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 280. V. dentatum var. pubescens, Ait. Kew. 

 {ed. 1) 1. J). 168. V. dentatum var. semitomentosum, Michx. ! I. c. part- 

 ly. V. villosum, Raf. in med. tepos. {hex. 2) 5. p. 361 (1808), &fin Desv. 

 jour. bot. I. p. 228; not of Sivartz. V. tomentosum, i?«/. I. c. (1808) 

 p. 354. (without descr.) V. Rafinesquianum, Rcetn. S^'SchvU.syst. 6. p. 630. 



Drv rocky banks, Canada (from Lake Winipeg) and northern part of 

 New "York! also near West Point ! New Jersey, i^ecZ: / and the mountainous 

 portions of North Carolina, Schweinitz! June. — Shrub 2-3 feet high, with 

 straggling branches. Leaves about 2 inciies long, nearly trlabrous above 

 when old. Peduncle at first shorter than the cj^me, but mostly elongated in 

 fruit. Flowers fewer and larger than in V. dentatum. Fruit 3 lines long ; 

 the nucleus nearly flat. — Perhaps the plant which Pursh, and even Alton, 

 had in view, mav have been our V. dentatum ji. scahrellum. The present 

 species extends into the Southern States along the mountains ; but certainly 

 does not grow "in the lower parts of Virginia and Carolina." The plant 

 of the Hortus Keicensls came from Peter CoUinson's garden. 



