18 CAPRIFOLIACEjE. Viburnum. 



red.— Linn. sfec. 1. p. 268 ; Fl. Dan. t. 661 ; Engl. hoi. t. 322 ; DC. prodr. 

 4. p. 328. Opulus glandulosus, Mcench, rneth. f. 505. 



/3. Americanum (Ait.) : leaves remotely and raiher obtusely toothed. — Ait. 

 Kew. {ed. 1)1. p. 373. V. trilobum, Marsh, arhust. p. 162. V. Opulus /3. 

 Pimina & y. edule, Michx. ! ft. I. p. 180. V. opuloides, MuU. cat. p. 32. 

 V. Oxycoccus & V. edule, P«rs/t, ^. I. p. 203 ; Torr. / ji. 1. ^9. 320 ; DC. 

 prodr. 4. p>. 328; iibo/t. fl- Bor.-Am. 1. p. 281 ; Audubon, birds of Amer. 

 t. 148. 



y. suhintesrifolluni. (Hook.) : leaves somewhat incised, very pubescent 

 beneath. Hook. I. c. under V. Oxycoccus. 



Swamps and along streams, from the northern part of Pennsylvania, New- 

 York ! and the New England States! to the Arctic Circle and the Rocky 

 Mountains, (i. Oregon, Dr. Scolder, Douglas. May-June. — Shrub 3-10 

 feet hi.o-h, with glabrous gray spreading branches. Leaves 3-5 inches long, 

 with divaricate lobes ; the base either truncate or somewhat acute ; the low- 

 er sprinkled with hairs : petiole often with subulate stipuHform appendages. 

 Cyme 3-4 inches in diameter; the sterile flowers few or usually numerous, - 

 very large. Stamens exserted. Fruit nearly half an inch in length, juicy, 

 of a pleasant acid taste when ripe, often employed as a substitute for cran- 

 berries. — We find no constant or essential characters to distinguish our plant 

 from the V. Opulus of Europe ; a garden variety of which, with the flowers 

 all sterile, is the well-known Snoiv-bali Bush. Our plant is called Cranber- 

 ry Bush, or High Cranberry. 



11. V. lantanoides (Michx.) : leaves ovate-orbicular, cordate, abruptly 

 acuminate, finely and unequally or doubly serrate, membranaceous; the 

 lower surface, and especially the prominent veins and the petioles, tomentose 

 with a pulverulent partly deciduous rusty stellate pubescence; cymes ses- 

 sile ; the exterior flowers sterile and very large; fruit ovoid; the nucleus 

 with a longituduial groove on each side. — Miehx.! fl. I. p. 179; Pursh,fl. 

 l.p. 202 ;" Torr. .' fl. 1.^.319 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 117; DC. prodr. 

 4. p. 326 ; HooJc.fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 280. V. Lantana /3. grandifolium. Ait. 

 Kew. I.e. V. Lantana /?. Canadense, Pers. syn. \. p. 327. V. grandifo- 

 lium. Smith, in Bees, cycl. no. 14. 



Deep rocky woods, Canada! the noithern part of the New England States! 

 and New York ! and along the Alleghany Mountains to Virginia May- 

 June. — A low very straggling shrub, with the branches often procumbent. 

 Leaves and inflorescence appearing from the same large buds, every part of 

 the newly developed branch covered with the rusty pulverulent pubescence, 

 which under a lens appears beautifully stellate; the leaves when old 4-6 

 inches long and almost the same breadth, nearly glabrous above ; the nu- 

 merous primar)^ veins strongly prominent beneath, running nearly straight 

 from the midrib to the margin, sending off" a few unilateral branches ; the 

 very numerous secondary veins passing between the primary at right angles, 

 forming beautiful transverse reticulations. Cyme large and loose, flat : the 

 radiant sterile flowers an inch in diameter. Fruit nearly black when ripe. — 

 Hobble-bush. 



12. V. molle (Michx.) : leaves somewhat orbicular-cordate, plicate-sulcate, 

 toothed, nearly tomentose with a very soft pubescence underneath ; petioles 

 somewhat glandular; (cymes radiate ?) fruit oblong-ovate. Michx. ! fl. 1. 

 p. 180 ; Pursh, fl. \. p. 203. V. alnifolium, Marsh, arbiist. p. 162. 



Kentucky, around Danville, Michaux! "Bark lacerate and deciduous 

 every year." The specimen of Michaux's herbarium is in fruit only, and 

 affbrds'no evidence that the cymes were radiant ; the leaves are c renately 

 toothed, and somewhat resemble one form of V. dentatum /3. scabrellum. 

 Pursh, who we presume knew nothing of Michaux's plant, refers to it the V. 

 alnifolium of Marshall, which may indeed be the same. We quote Mar- 



