SHRUBS 501 



shaped, with 5 spreading lobes at the top. Stamens, 5. Siig- 

 fnas, 3. Fruit, a juicy, berry-like drupe with a winy flavor, 

 containiVig 3 seed-like nutlets. Stem hollow, filled with white 

 pith. 



A showy plant, 6 to 10 feet high, with soft, misty-looking, flat, 

 large cymes of flowers, growing on the edges of swamps and in 

 rich soil everywhere. Shrubby, with woody stems rather than a 

 true shrub. 



74. Red-berried Elder 



S. racenibsa is taller than the last, with warty bark, flowers in 

 panicled clusters and fruit of bright - red berries, sometimes 

 white, ripe in June. Stem filled with brown pith, 2 to 12 feet 

 high. 



Common, eastward and westward across the continent, in rocky 

 woods. 



75. Hobble-bush. American W^ayfaring-tree 



Viburnum /antanoides. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, 

 white. Leaves, opposite, roundish, heart-shaped at base, 

 pointed, toothed, unevenly divided by the mid-rib, covered 

 with reddish scurf. Time, May. 



Gr/y.r, 5-toothed. G;/y//a, 5-lobed. Stamens, t^. Stigmas, t,. 

 Flowers, like those of the garden hydrangea, arranged in flat 

 cymes, those around the border neutral, without stamens and 

 pistils, with large, flat corollas. Fruit, a crimson drupe, be- 

 coming darker when ripe. The winter leaf-buds are without 

 covering. 



A large, irregularly branched shrub, found in cold, wet woods 

 from New England to North Carolina, where it ascends into the 

 mountains, and westward. The lower drooping branches often 

 take root, making loops to trip up the careless pedestrian. 



76. Dockmackie. Maple-leaved Arrow-wood 



V. acerifolium. — Color, white, the flowers all alike, in slen- 

 der-peduncled cymes, appearing in May and June. The op- 



