SHRUBS 503 



coast from Massachusetts to Georgia. Compound, sessile 

 cymes of flowers appear early in spring. Leaves small, oval, 

 finely serrate, pointed. Fruit dark blue, sweetish to the taste. 



81. Cranberry-tree 



V. Opulus has 3-lobed, strongly veined leaves, broadly 

 wedge-shaped or truncate at base, the lobes toothed near their 

 apex, entire in the notches. Two glands appear at the top 

 of the petioles. Flowers in peduncled clusters, followed by 

 clusters of bright -red drupes, edible, sour, like cranberries, 

 whence the name. Bark smooth. Height, 10 feet or less. 



Found along streams from Maine to Pennsylvania and west- 

 ward. 



Cultivated and growing large, this becomes the bush known in 

 gardens as snowball-tree or guelder-rose, in which all the flow- 

 ers are neutral, forming very large, showy clusters of white bloom 

 in June. 



82, Early Fly-honeysuckle 



Lonfcsra ciliaia. — Fa?)iily, Honeysuckle. Color, pale green- 

 ish yellow. Leaves, thin, downy beneath when young, on 

 somewhat hairy, short petioles, opposite, oblong or ovate, 

 pointed, often heart-shaped at base. Time, May. 



Calyx, with 5 short teeth. Corolla, funnel-form, with a slight, 

 spur-like swelling at base, f inch long, with 5 nearly equal 

 lobes. Sta7iiens, 5. Fruit, a pair of bright-red, oblong berries. 



A straggling shrub 4 to 6 feet high, growing in cold, moist, or 

 rocky woods from Maine to Pennsylvania, westward. 



83. Mountain Honeysuckle 



L. caeriilea is a bush i to 2 feet high, growing in bogs and 

 mountain woods in New England and westward. Its leaves 

 are oval, entire. Flowers in May, yellowish, a pair at the 

 summit of short peduncles in the leaf-axils. Fruit, 2 blue 

 berries united into i. Leaves, oval, small, downy when young. 



