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HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



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Cymes i}='-2!=' broad, the rays slender; drupe nearly bLick. 



2. Leaves pinnately \-eitied. 

 a. Leaves coarsely dentate, the veins prominent beneath 

 Leaves very short-petioled, pubescent. 5. 



Petioles 3" -20" long. 



Leaves glabrous, or with tufts of hairs in the a.xils beneath. 6. 



Leaves pubescent beneath, the pubescence more or less stellate. 



Drupe globose-ovoid; eastern. 7. 



Drupe oblong, twice as long as thick; western. 8. 



b. Leaves entire, crenulate, or serrulate, the veins not prominent. 

 Cymes manifestly peduncled. 



Peduncle .shorter than the cyme; leaves crenulate. 

 Peduncle equalling or longer than the cyme; leaves mostly entire. 

 Cymes sessile, or nearly so. 



Leaves slender-petioled, large. 



Leaves prominently acuminate. 

 Leaves obtuse, or merelj' acute. 



Leaves and scarcely winged petioles glabrous, or nearly so. 

 Veins of lower leaf-surfaces and winged petioles tomentose. 

 Leaves nearly sessile, obovate, small. 



4. V. aceri/olium. 



V. pubesceiis. 



V. dentalum. 



V. molle. 



V. Demelrionis. 



9- 

 10. 



14. 



K. cassinoides. 

 V. uiidiini. 



V. Lenlago. 



V. prunifolinm. 

 f. rn/olomenlosiim. 

 V. obovatuni. 



I. Viburnum alnifolium Marsh. Hobble-bush. 



(Fig. 3434.) 



V. alnifolium Marsh. .\rb. Am. 162. 17S5. 



Vibnrniini tantanoides Jlichx. Fl. Bor. 

 .\m. I: 179. 1S03. 

 A shrub, with smooth purplish bark, 

 sometimes reaching a height of lo"^, 

 widely and irregularly branching, the 

 branches often procumbent, the young- 

 est twigs scurfy. Leaves orbicular, 

 or very broadly ovate, strongly piu- 

 nately veined, short-acuminate or 

 acute at the ape.x, usually cordate at 

 the base, finely stellate-pubescent, or 

 at length glabrous above, scurfy with 

 stellate pubescence on the veins be- 

 neath, finely serrate all around, 3'-8' 

 broad; petioles y^'-iyk' long; cj'mes 

 sessile, 3'-5' broad, the exterior flow- 

 ers usually radiant and neutral, about 

 i' broad; drupes red, becoming purple, 

 ovoid-oblong, 5"-6" long; stone 3- 

 grooved on one side, i-grooved on the 

 other. 



In low woods, New Brunswick to North 

 Carolina, western New York and Michi- 

 gan. Leaves of shoots from cut stumps 

 thin, ovate, coarsely toothed. May-June. 



American Warfaring Tree. 



kj. 



2. Viburnum Opulus ly. Cran- 

 berry-tree. Wild Guelder-rose. 

 High Bush-cranberry. (Fig. 3435.) 



Viburnum Opulus'L. Sp. PI. 268. 1753. 

 V. trilobum Marsh. hx\>. .A.m. 162. 1785. 



A shrub sometimes 12° high, with nearly 

 erect smooth branches. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, sometimes broader than long, gla- 

 brous, or with scattered hairs above, more 

 or less pubescent on the veins beneath, 

 rather deeply 3-Iobed, rounded or trun- 

 cate and 3-ribbed at the base, the lobes 

 divergent, acuminate, coarsely dentate; 

 petioles ;4'-i' long, glandular above; 

 cymes peduncled, 3'-4' in diameter, the 

 exterior flowers radiant, neutral, yi.'-\' 

 broad; drupes globose, or oval, \"-^" in 

 diameter, red, very acid, translucent; stone 

 orbicular, flat, not grooved. 



In low grounds, New Brunswick to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, south to New Jersey, Michi- 

 gan and Oregon. Also in Europe and Asia. 

 Among many English names are Marsh-, 

 Rose-, or Water-elder, White Dogwood, Whit- 

 ten-tree, Dog Rowan-tree, Gaiter-tree or Gat- 





