174 CAPRI FOLIACEiE. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 
cymes panicled , convex or pyramidal; fruit bright red .— Rocky woods, 
chiefly northward. May : the fruit ripening in June. A white-ber¬ 
ried variety is said to occur. — Stem generally lower than the last, 
but more woody, often round-topped and tree-like. 
7 . VIBURNUM, L. 
Arrow-wood. Laurestinus. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla spreading, deeply 5 -lobed. Stamens 
5. Stigmas 3. Fruit a 1 -celled, 1 -seeded drupe, with thin pulp 
and a crustaceous flattened stone. — Shrubs, with simple petioled 
leaves, and white (sessile) flowers in flat compound cymes. (The 
classical Latin name, of unknown meaning.) 
§ 1. LentXgo, DC. — Flowers all alike and perfect. (Fruit blue or 
black when ripe , glaucous.) 
* Leaves entire , or merely toothed , not lobed. 
MWdum, L. (Withe-rod.) Leaves thickish, oval, ob¬ 
long or lanceolate, dotted beneath , like the short petioles and cymes , 
with small brownish scales , smooth above, not shining , the margins en¬ 
tire or wavy-crcnate ; cyme short peduncled ; fruit round-ovoid. — Var. 
. Clayt6ni, has the leaves nearly entire, and the veins somewhat 
prominent underneath, and grows in swamps from Massachusetts near 
the coast to New Jersey and southward. Var. 2. cassinoides (V. pyri- 
iolium, Pursh , $-c.), has more opaque and often toothed leaves; and 
C °J d swam P s everywhere northward. May, June. — Shrub 
hr - 11 )° high. 
V. prunifoliuin, L. (Black Haw. Sloe-leaved Vi¬ 
burnum.) Leaves broadly oval , obtuse at both ends , finely and sharply 
• in * n S above, smooth; petioles naked; cymes sessile; fruit 
liko "> I° ng ‘ ~ P ry COpS, ' s ’ s - Ncw York to Ohio. May. — A tree- 
3 v rUb ’ vcr y hands °™e in flower and foliage. 
In L ‘ ( Sweet Viburnum.) Leaves ovate, strong' 
petioles with**!/ a V K ry shar P f y serrate , smooth , the long margined 
with rus v ff la * ^ ” 8nd branches the sessile cyme sprinkled 
Jut.-^rt yru i* °val. — Copses, common. May, 
from scarlet ,o bLdTc’k^d V l0ng ’ ^ 
4 v ,acK ’ and edible m autumn. 
IV ovate' L ‘ (Arrow-wood.) Smooth; leaves broad- 
der petiole* ^ an s ^ ar pLy toothed , strongly straight-veined , on slen- 
ground ",’"^"* 8 P« dUncled ; fruit ( Bm all) ovoid-globose. - Low 
«VnTr' ^ ~. 8h ™ b high, with ash-colored 
veins underneath*'^ WUh hair ? tufts in the axiIs of llie str ° nS 
ovate or Mon 'J**' S *® ns * Pursh. (Downy Arrow-wood.) Leaves 
,-ovate, acute or pointed, coarsely toothed, rather strong- 
