10 CAPRIFOLIACE^. Viburnum. 



sliglitly silicate : seed reniform in cross section and someAvhat lobed ; the albumen not rumi- 

 nated. — Fl. i. 179 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 18 ; Audubon, Birds Amer. i. t. 148. V. alnijhlium, 

 Marsh. Arbust. 162. V. Lantuna, var. grandiflorum, Ait. Kew. i. 372. V. (/nunlijhlium, 

 Smith in Rees Cycl. — Moist woods, New Brunswick and Canada to N. Carolina in the 

 higher mountains; fl. spring. (Japan?) 



§ 2. Cyme radiant, or not so : drupes light red, acid, edible, globose : putamen 

 very flat, orbicular, even (not sulcate nor intruded or costate) : leaves palmately 

 veined : winter-buds scaly. — Opulus, Tourn. 



V. Opulus, L. (High Cr.vnbekry, Cranberry-Tree.) Xearly glabrous, occasionally 

 pubescent, 4 to 10 feet high: leaves dilated, three-lobed, roundish or broadly cuueate at 

 3-ribbed or pedately 5-ribl)ed base ; the lobes acuminate, incisely dentate or in upper leaves 

 entire : slender petioles bearing 2 or more glands at or near summit, and usually setaceous 

 stipules near base: cymes rather ample, terminating several-leaved bi-anches, radiant. — 

 Spec. i. 268; Ait. Kew. i. 373 (var. Americanum) ; Miclix. Fl. i. 180 (vars.); Torr. & Gray, 

 1. c. V. trilohum, Marsh. Arbust. 162. V. opuloidcs, Muhl. Cat. V. Oxi/coccus & V. edule, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 203. — Swamps and along streams. New Brunswick to Saskatchewan, - Brit. 

 Columbia and Oregon, and in Atlantic States soutli to Pennsylvania. Variable in foliage ; 

 no constant difference from tlie European, which is cultivated, in a form with most flowers 

 neutral, as Snowball and Guelder liosE. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



V. pauciflorum, Pylaie. Glabrous or with pubescence, 2 to 5 feet high, straggling: 

 leaves of roundish or broadly oval outline, unequally dentate, many of them either obso- 

 letely or distinctly 3-lobcd (the lobes not longer than broad), about 5-nerved at base, loosely 

 veiny : cymes small, terminating short and merely 2-leaved lateral branches, involucrate 

 with slender subulate caducoiis bracts, destitute of neutral radiant flowers : stamens very 

 short: fruit nearly of preceding. — Pylaie, Herb.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 17; Herder, PL 

 Radd. iii. t. 1, f. 3. V. acerifoUum, Bong. Veg. Sitka, 144. — Cold moist woods, Newfound- 

 land and Labrador, mountains of New England to Saskatchewan, west to Alaska and 

 Washington Tei'r., southward in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 



§ 3. Cyme never radiant : drupes blue, or dark-purple or black at maturity. 



* Leaves palmately 3-5-ribbed or nerved from the ba.se, slender-petiola'e: stipules subulate-seta- 

 ceous: pubescence simple, no scurf: primary ra3-s of pedunculate cyme 5 to 7: filaments equal- 

 ling the corolla. 



-f— Pacific species: drupe oblong-oval, nearly half-inch long, bluish-black. 



V. ellipticum, Hook. Stems 2 to .5 feet high : winter-buds scaly : leaves from orbicular- 

 oval to ellij)tical-oblong, rounded at both ends, dentate above the middle, not lobed, at 

 length rather coriaceous, 3-5-nerved from the base, the nerves ascending or parallel : corol- 

 las 4 or 5 lines in diameter : stone of fruit deeply and broadly sulcate on both faces ; the 

 furrow of one face divided by a median ridge. — Hook. FL i. 280; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 278. 

 — Woods of W. Washington Terr, and Oregon (first coll. by Douglas), to Mendocino and 

 to Placer Co., California, Kellogg, Mrs. Ames. 



•i— -t— Atlantic species: drupe globular, quarter-inch long, bluish-purple or black when ripe: 

 cyme mostly with a caducous involucre of 5 or 6 small and subulate or linear thin bracts. 



V. acerifoliuxn, L. (Arrow-wood, Dockmackie.) Soft-pubescent, or glabrate with 

 age, 3 to 6 feet iiigh, with slender branches : winter-buds imperfectly scaly : leaves mem- 

 branaceous, rounded-ovate, 3-ribbed from the rounded or subcordate base, and with 3 short 

 a)id acute or acuminate divergent lobes (or some uppermost undivided), usually dentate to 

 near the base (larger 4 or 5 inches long) : cymes rather small and open : corolla 2 or 3 lines 

 in diameter: stone of drupe lenticular, hardly sulcate on eitlier side. — Spec. i. 268; Vent. 

 Hort. Cels. t. 272; Michx. FL i. 180; Wats.Dendr. Brit. ii. t. 118 (poor) ; Hook. Fl. 1. c. 

 (])artly) ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 17 ; Emerson, Trees of Mass. ii. t. 19. — Rocky and cool woods, 

 New Brunswick to Michigan, Indiana, and N. Carolina. 



V. densiflorum, Chapm. Lower, 2 to 4 feet high: leaves smaller (inch or two long), 

 with mostly shorter lobes or sometimes none: cyme denser: involucrate bracts more con- 

 spicuous and less caducous : stone of the drujie undulately somewhat 2-sulcate on one face 

 and .3-sulcate on the other. — Fl. ed. 2, Suppl. 624. — Wooded hills, W. Florida, Chapman. 

 Also, Taylor Co., Georgia, Neisler, a glabrate form. Too near V. acerijhlium. 



