218 CAPRlFOLiACE^. (HONEYStCKLE FAMILY.) 



etc. The well-known Sxow-ball Tree, or Guelder-Rose, is a cultivated 

 state, Avith the whole cyme turned into show}' sterile flowers. (Eu.) 



3. V. pauciflorum, Pylaie. A low straggling shrub; leaves glabrous 

 or loosely pubescent beneath, 5-ribbed at base, unequally serrate nearly all 

 round, with 3 short lobes at the summit ; cyme few-flowered ; stamens shorter 

 than the corolla. — Cold woods, Newf . and Lab. to the mountains of X. Eng., 

 westward to N. Mich, and the Rocky Mts. 



§ 3. Cijme never radiant ; drupes blue, or dark-purple or black at maturity. 



* Leaves 3-ribbed from the rounded or subcordate base, somewhat 3-lobed ; stij)- 



ides bristle-shaped. 



4. V. acerifolium, L. (Dockmackie. Arrow-wood.) Shrub 3 -6° 

 high ; leaves soft-doAvuy beneath, the pointed lobes diverging, unequally 

 toothed; cymes small, slender-peduncled ; stamens exserted ; fruit crimson 

 turning purple ; stone lenticular, hardly sulcate. — Cool rocky woods, from 

 X. Brunswick to N. C, and west to S. Minn. 



* * Leaves {with base inclined to heart-shaped) coarseh/ toothed, prominently pin- 



nately veined ; stipules narrowly subulate ; no rusty scurf; fruit ovoid, blue 

 or purple ; the stone grooved ; cymes pedimcled. 



•i- Stone fat ; leaves all short-pet ioled or subsessile. 



5. V. pubescens, Pursh. (Downy A.) A low, straggling shrub ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, acute or taper-pointed, the veins and teeth fewer and 

 less conspicuous than in the next, the lower surface and very short petioles 

 soft-downy, at least when young ; fruit dark-purple ; the stone lightly 2-sul- 

 cate on the faces. — Rocks, etc., Lower Canada to the mountains of Ga., west 

 to Iowa and Minn. June. 



-(- -i- Stone very deeply sulcate ventral! y ; leaves rather slender-petioled. 



6. V. dentatum, L. (Arrow-wood.) Smooth, 5 - 1 5° high, with ash- 

 colored bark ; leaves broadly ovate, very numerously sharp-toothed and strongly 

 veined ; fruit 3" long ; cross-section of stone between kidney- and horseshoe- 

 shaped. — AYet places, N. Brunswick to N. Ga., and west to Minn. June. — 

 The pale leaves often with hairy tufts in the axils of the straight veins. 



7. V. raolle, Michx. Leaves broadly oval, obovate or ovate, scarcely 

 pointed, coarsely crenate or repand-toothed, the lower surface, branchlets an(? 

 cymes soft-downy, the latter with stellate pubescence ; fruit oily, larger ant' 

 more pointed, the stone as in n. 6, but less deeply excavated. — Coast of X. 

 Eng. (Martha's Vineyard), to Tex. 



* * * Leaves finely serrate or entire, bright green ; veins not prominent ; stipules 



none ; ivhole plant glabrous or with some minute rusty scurf; fruit black or 



with a blue bloom, sweet ; stone very flat and even, broadly oval or orbicular. 



-)- Cymes peduncled, about 5-rayed ; drupes globose-ovoid, 3" long , shrubs 5-12" 



high, in sivamps. 



8. V. cassinoides, L. (Withe-rod.) Shoots scurfy -punctate ; leaves 

 thickish and opaque or dull, ovate to oblong, mostly with obtuse acumination, 

 obscurely veiny {I -S' long), icith margins irregularly crenulate-denticulate or 

 sometimes entire ; peduncle shorter than the cyme. (V nudum, var. cassinoides, 

 Torr. Sf Gray.) — Newf. to N. J. and Minn. Flowers earlier than the next. 



