CAPRIFOLIACEJE. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 
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ly straight-veined, the lower surface and the very short petioles velvety - 
downy; cymes peduncled; fruit ovoid.—Rocks, W. \ ermont to 
Wisconsin, chiefly northward. — Shrub straggling, 2° -4° high. 
* * Leaves 3-lobed, roundish ; the lobes pointed. 
6. V. aceiifolium, L. (Maple-leaved Arrow-wood.) 
Leaves Z-ribbed and roundish or heart-shaped at the base , downy under¬ 
neath , coarsely and unequally toothed, the veins and stalks hairy ; 
cymes long-peduncled, many-flowered ; fruit oval \ filaments long. 
Rocky woods, common. June. — Shrub 3? —5° high. 
7. V* pauciflorum, Pylaie. Smooth , or nearly so; leaves 
mostly truncate and 5-ribbed at the base , with 3 short lobes at the sum¬ 
mit, unequally serrate throughout; cymes small and simple , peduncled; 
filaments shorter than the corolla. — Cold woods, mountains of N. 
Hampshire to N. New York; also in Wisconsin and northward. 
(V. Oxycoccus, var. eradiatum, Oakes.) — A low straggling shrub, 
with larger leaves than in No. 6, serrate all round and less deeply 
lobed than in No. 7 ; of which it surely is not a variety, although it 
has the short stamens of the next section. 
§ 2. 6pulus, Tourn. — Marginal fioicers of the cyme destitute of sta¬ 
mens and pistils , and with corollas many times larger than the others , 
forming a ray , as in Hydrangea. 
8. V, OpulllS, L- (Cranberry-tree.) Nearly smooth , up¬ 
right ; haves strongly Z-lobed, broadly wedge-shaped or truncate at 
the base, the spreading lobes pointed, toothed on the sides, entire in 
the sinuses; petioles bearing stalked glands at the base; cymes pe¬ 
duncled; fruit ovoid, red. (V. Oxycoccus and V. 6 dul e, Pursh.) — 
Shrub 5° - 1(P high, very showy in flower. The acid fruit is used 
as a (poor) substitute for cranberries, whence the name High Cran¬ 
berry-bush, &c. — The well-known Snow-ball Tree, or Guelder- 
Rose, is a cultivated European variety, with the whole cyme turned 
into large sterile flowers. 
9. V. lantanoldes, Michx. (Hobble-bosh, American 
Wayfaring-tree.) Leaves round-ovate, abruptly pointed, heart- 
shapetl at the base, closely serrate, many-veined; the veins and vein- 
lets underneath, along with the stalks and branchlets, very scurfy 
with rusty-colored tufts of minute down; cymes sessile, very broad and 
fiat; fruit ovoid, crimson turning blackish.—Cold moist woods, com- 
mon northward.’ May. —A straggling shrub; the decumbent branch¬ 
es often taking root. Flowers handsome. Leaves 3 - 6 across. 
Order 53. RLBIACEiE. (Madder Family.) 
Shrubs or herbs, with opposite entire leaves connected by 
interposed stipules, or rarely whorled without apparent slip 
ules; the calyx coherent with the 2- (rarely 3 - 4-) celled 
