Viburnum. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 17 



* * Leaves lobed or incised. 



8. V. acerifolium (Linn.) : leaves roundish or broadly ovafe, mostly sub- 

 cordate, 3-ribbed from rhe base, 3-lobed, coarsely and uneriually toothed, vel- 

 vety-pubescent beneath; the lobes divergent and mostly acuminate; petioles 

 (wilh the young branchlets and ribs of the leaves) pubescent and somewhat 

 hirsute, furnished near the base with two setaceous stipuliform appendages; 

 cymes pedunculate ; fruit oval, compressed ; stamens much exserted. — Linn. ! 

 spec. I. j). 268 (pi. Gronov.I) ; Vent. hort. Ccls. t. 272; Michx. .' fl. \. p. 

 180 ; Pursh, fl. ].p. 203 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 364 ; Wals. dendr. Brit. 1. 1. 118 ; 

 Torr. ! fl.l. p. 320 ; Bii^el. fl. Bost. ed. 2. ^?. 116 ,• DC. ! prodr. 4. p. 327 ; 

 Hook. I fl. Bor.-Ain. l.p. 280 (partly); Darlingt.fl. Cest. p. 204. 



Woods, particularly in rocky situations, Canada! and nearly throughout 

 the United States ! and probably in Oregon. May-June. — Shrub 3-5 feet 

 high, with straight slender branches ; the younger branchlets (like the pe- 

 tioles and, in a less degree, the primary veins or ribs of the leaves) usually 

 clothed botli with a very short soft pubescence, and with slender rather ap- 

 pressed hirsute hairs. Leaves 2-5 inches in diameter, membranaceous, gla- 

 brous or sparsely hairy above, often minutely dotted beneath ; the soft close 

 pubescence of the lower surface stellate. Peduncle about 2 inches long ; the 

 loose cyme 2-3 inches broad. Corolla often slightly tinged with rose-color. 

 Drupe broadly oval, 3-4 lines long, nearly black when ripe : the nucleus 

 with 2 obtuse ridges on one side, and 2 corresponding shallow grooves on the 

 other. — A rro w-wood . 



9. V. paucifloritm (Pylaie ! herb.) : branches and petioles glabrous or 

 nearly so; leaves roundish, seldom subcordate, slightly 3-lobed or incised at 

 the summit, mostly 5-nerved from the base, uneiiually serrate, sparsely pu- 

 bescent on the veins beneath ; petioles destitute of stipuliform appendages; 

 cymes (small and simple) ])edunculate, tcririinating the very short lateral 

 branches; filaments much shorter than the corolla. — V. acerifolium, Bon- 

 gard ! veo-. Sitcha, I. c. p. 144, ])arfly ? 



Newf)iindland, Pi/laie .' S^c. White Mountains of New Hampshire, and 

 on Mansfield Mountain, Vermont, Mr. Tucker man ! S^- Mr. IV. F. Macrae! 

 Probably also in Oregon and in Sitcha ! June. — Shrub 2-3 feet high. 

 Leaves 1-2 inches in diameter, nearly glabrous, or more or less pubescent 

 on the veins of the lower surface (the hairs not stellate) ; the lobes often ob- 

 scure. Cymes seldom an inch in diameter. Anthers on very short fila- 

 ments, not exserted beyond the tube of the corolla. Fruit unknown. — For 

 specimens of lliis plant, we are indebted to the promising botanists who first 

 discovered it within the United States (Mr. Macrae of Montreal and Mr. 

 Tuckerman of Boston), who also directed our notice to the characters which 

 clearly distinguish them. We find froin our notes upon La Pylaie's collec- 

 tion in Newfoundland, that he had given to the same plant the appropriate 

 name which we have adopted. De Candolle, it will be seen, has referred Py- 

 laie's plant to V. acerifolium. We have another Newfoundland specimen in a 

 small collection made by a British land-surveyor, and given to us by A. B. 

 Lambert, Es(|. of London. The V. acerifolium of Bongard, veg- Sitcha, 

 Sfc. appears to belong to,' or include this species : but if we mistake not, we 

 have a fragment of the true V. acerifolium from Oregon. — The leaves usual- 

 ly turn blackish in drying. 



§ 2. Cymes radiant ; the marginal flowers much larger than the others, 

 and neutral. — Opulus, Tourn., DC. 



10. V. Opulus (Linn.) : nearly glabrous; leaves 3-lobed; the lobes acu- 

 minate, toothed ; petioles glandular ; cymes pedunculate ; fruit ovate-globose, 



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