302 LXX1. CAPRIFOLIACEA, VIBURNUM. 
sessile ; drupe l-seeded—Shrubs or small trees. Lvs. simple, petiolate. 
Fils. cymose, sometimes radiant. . 
* Cymes radiant, the marginal flowers much larger than the others and neutral. 
1. V. LANTANOIDES. Hobble-bush. Wayfaring Tree. - 
Lvs. orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminate, unequally serrate; pet. and 
veins covered with a ferruginous down ; cymes sessile; fr. ovate-—A shrub, very 
ornamental when in flower. It is rather common in the rocky woods of N. 
Eng. and N. Y., which it adorns in early spring with its large cymes of bril- 
liant white flowers. Height about 5f. Branches long and crooked, often trail- 
ing and rooting. Leaves very large, covered with a rusty pubescence when 
young, at length becoming green, the dust and down remaining only upon the 
stalk and veins. The radiant, sterile flowers of the cyme are near 1’ diam., from 
a greenish color becoming white, flat, with 5 rounded lobes. Inner flowers 
much smaller, fertile. May. 
2. V. opinus. 8. Americana. Ait. T.&G. (V. Oxycoccus. Ph.) High 
Cranberry.—Smvoth ; lvs. 3-lobed, 3-veined, broader than long, rounded at 
base, lobes divaricate; acuininate, crenately toothed; petioles glandular; cymes 
edunculate.—A handsome shrub, 8—12f high, in woods and borders of fields, 
. States and Brit. Am. Stems several from the same root, branched above. 
Leaves with large, remote, blunt teeth, the stalks with 2 or more glands at base, 
channeled above. Cymes bordered with a circle of large, white, barren flow- 
ers, like the preceding species. Fruit resembles the common cranberry in fla- 
vor, and is sometimes substituted for it. It is red, very acid, ripens late, re- 
maining upon the bush after the leaves have fallen. June. 
B. roseum. Guelder Rose. Snow-bail.—Lwvs. rather acute at base, longer than 
broad, lobes acuminate, with acuminate teeth; petioles glandular; fis. all neu- 
tral, in globose cymes.—Native of Europe. This variety is the popular shrub 
so generally admired and cultivated as a companion of the Lilac, Showherry, 
Philadelphus, &c. Its dense, spherical cymes are wholly made up of barren 
flowers. 
* * Cymes not radiant. Flowers all similar and fertile. Leaves lobed or incised. 
4. V. ACERIFOLIUM. Maple-leaved Viburnum. Dockmackie. 
Iws. subcordate, acuminate, 3-veined, 3-lobed, acutely serrate; pet. with- 
out glands; cymes on long peduncles.—A shrub, 4—6f high, with yellowish 
green bark, growing in woods, Can. and U.S. Leaves broad, rounded and 
sometimes cordate at base, divided into 3 acuminate lobes with sharp serra- 
tures, a form not very unlike that of the maple leaf, the under surface, as well 
as the younger branches a little downy. Branches straight, slender, very flexi- 
ble, ending with a pair of leaves and a long-stemmed, cymose umbel of white 
flowers. Fruit oval, compressed. Stamens much exserted. June. 
5. V. PaucirLorum. Pylaie. Few-flowered Viburnum. 
Nearly smooth in all its parts; dvs. roundish, slightly 3-lobed or incised 
at summit, mostly 5-veined from the base; cymessmall and pedunculate, termi- 
nating the very short lateral branches; fil. much shorter than the corolla—A 
small shrub, with white flowers, Mansfield Mt., Vt. Macrae, White Mts., N. H. 
Robbins, N. to Newfoundland. 
6. V. Lentaco. Sweet Viburnum. : ape 
Lvs. ovate, acuminate, acutely and finely uncinate-serrate ; petiole with 
undulate margins.—A common, tree-like shrub, in rocky woods, Can. to Ga. 
and Ky. Height 10—15f. Leaves smooth, conspicuously acuminate, about 3’ 
long and half as wide, their petioles with a curled or wavy, dilated border on 
each side. Flowers white, in broad, spreading cymes, succeeded by well-fla- 
vored, sweetish berries of a glaucous black. Jn. 
7. V.nupum. Naked-slalked Viburnum. Withe Rod. 
Smooth; lus. oval-oblong, revolute at the edge, subcrenulate; pet. naked ; 
cymes pedunculate.—A shrub or small tree, 10—15f high, in swamps, U?S. 
Leaves elliptical, punctate, coriaceous, the margin more or less rolled, nearly 
entire, smooth as well as every other part, and when full grown, 3 or 4 inches’ 
