3(» LXXl. CAPRIFOLIACE^. Viburnum, 



sessile; drupe 1 -seeded. — Shrubs or small trees. Lvs. simple, petiolaie. 

 Fls. cymose, sometimes radiant. 



* Cymes radioMt, the marginal Jlowcrs much larger than the others and neutral, 



1. V. LANTANoiDES. HiMlc-bush. Wayfaring Tree. 



Lvs. orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminate, unequally serrate ; pet. and 

 veins covered with a ferruginous down ; cymes sessile ; fr. ovate. — A shrub, very 

 ornamental when in flower. It is rather common in the rocky woods of N. 

 Eng. and N. Y., which it adorns in early spring with its large cymes of bril- 

 liant white flowers. Height about 5f Branches long and crooked, often trail- 

 ing and rooting. Leaves very large, covered with a rusty pubescence when 

 young, at length becoming green, the dust and down remaining only upoil the 

 stalk and veins. The radiant, sterile flowers of the cyme are near 1' diam., from 

 a greenish color becoming white, flat, with 5 rounded lobes. Inner flowers 

 much smaller, fertile. May. 



2. V. optJLUs. /?. Americana. Ait. T. & G. (V. Oxycoccus. PA.) High 

 Cranberry. — Smooth ; Irs. 3-lobed, 3-veined, broader than long, rounded at 



base, lobes divaricate, acuminate, crenately toothed ; 'petioles glandular ; cymes 

 pedunculate. — A handsome shrub, 8 — I2f high, in woods and borders of fields, 

 N. States and Brit. Am. Stems several from the same root, branched above. 

 Leaves with large, remote, blunt teeth, the stalks with 2 or more glands at base, 

 channeled above. Cymes bordered with a circle of large, white, barren flow- 

 ers, like the preceding species. Fruit resembles the common cranberry in fla- 

 vor, and is sometimes substituted for it. It is red, very acid, ripens late, re- 

 maining upon the bush after the leaves have fallen. June. 



/?. roseum. Chielder Rose. Snow-hall. — Lis. rather acute at base, longer than 

 broad, lobes acuminate, with acuminate teeth; petioles glandular; ^5. all neu- 

 tral, in globose cymes. — Native of Europe. This variety is the popular shrub 

 so generally admired and cultivated as a companion of the Lilac, Snowberry, 

 Philadelphus, &c. Its dense, spherical cymes are wholly made up of barren 

 flowers. 



♦ * Cymes not radiant. Flffioers all similar and fertile. Leaves lobed or incised. 



4. V. ACERiFOLiUM. Maple-kavcd Viburnum. Dockmackic. 



Lvs. subcordate, acuminate, 3-veined, 3-lobed, acutely serrate ; pet. with- 

 out glands ; cy^nes on long peduncles. — A shrub, 4 — Gf high, with yellowish 

 green bark, growing in woods. Can. and U. S. Leaves broad, rounded and 

 sometimes cordate at base, divided into 3 acuminate lobes with sharp serra- 

 tures, a form not very unlike that of the maple leaf, the under surface, as well 

 as the younger branches a little downy. Branches straight, slender, very flexi- 

 ble, ending with a pair of leaves and a long-stemmed, cymose umbel of white 

 flowers. Fruit oval, compressed. Stamens much exserted. June. 



5. V. PAUGiFLORUM. Pylaie. Fcw-Jlffivered Viburnum. 



Nearly smooth in all its parts ; lvs. roundish, slightly 3-lobed or incised 

 at summit, mostly 5- veined from the base; cymes small and pedunculate, termi- 

 nating the very short lateral branches; fil. much shorter than the corolla. — A 

 small shrub, with white flowers, Mansfield Mt., Vt. Macrae, White Mts., N. H. 

 Robbins, N. to Newfoundland. 



6. V. Lentago. Sweet Viburnum. 



Lvs. ovate, acuminate, acutely and finely uncinate-serrate ; petiole with 

 undulate margins. — A common, tree-like shrub, in rocky woods, Can. to Ga. 

 and Ky. Height 10 — 15r Leaves smooth, conspicuously acuminate, about 3' 

 long and half as wide, their petioles with a curled or wavy, dilated border on 

 each side. Flowers white, in broad, spreading cymes, succeeded by well-fla- 

 vored, sweetish berries of a glaucous black. Jn. 



7. V. NUDUM. Naked-stalked Viburnum. Withe Rod. 



Smooth ; lvs. oval-oblong, revolute at the edge, subcrenulate ; pet. naked ; 

 cymes pedunculate. — A slirub or small tree, 10 — 15f high, in swamps, U. S. 

 Leaves elliptical, punctate, coriaceous, the margin more or less rolled, nearly 

 entire, smooth as well as every other part, and Arhen full grown, 3 or 4 inches 



