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* Flowers round the margin of the cyme without stamens or pistils, 
large and showy. 
a. (V. LANTANOIDES), HopBLE-BusH, WITCH-HOBBLE. <A shrub 
about 5 ft. high, with the branches reclining and often rooting and 
forming loops (whence the popular names). Leaves very large, 
roundish, abruptly taper-pointed, serrate, with a rusty down on the 
petioles and veinlets; cymes very broad and showy; fruit red, not 
eatable. 
b. (V. OpuLUS), CRANBERRY TREE, High BusH CRANBERRY. A 
handsome, upright shrub; leaves 3—5-ribbed and 3-lobed; fruit 
bright red, juicy, very acid, and used as a substitute for cranberries. 
** Flowers all small and perfect. 
c. (V. DENTATUM), ARROWWOOD. (Name given from the fact 
that the straight stems were used by the Indians for arrows.) A 
shrub 5-10 ft. high; leaves pale, roundish ovate; very sharply 
toothed and strongly veined, often with tufts of hairs in the axils of 
the veins; fruit bright blue. 
d. (V. pRUNIFOLIUM), BLack Haw. Leaves smooth, shining 
above, oval or obovate, serrate with fine, sharp teeth, obtuse or 
nearly so, petioles hardly margined; fruit oval, somewhat flattened, 
sweet and insipid, but eatable. 
Ill. LONICERA, HONEYSUCKLE. 
Calyx 5-toothed, with a short tube. Corolla tubular, 
funnel-shaped or broader, 5-lobed, with the lobes somewhat 
unequal. Stamens 5, projecting from the corolla-tube. 
Ovary 2-3-celled, ripening into a _ several-seeded berry. 
Shrubs, often twining, with entire leaves, and usually showy 
flowers. 
* Stems twining. 
a. (L. SEMPERVIRENS), TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. Leaves ob- 
long, pale beneath, rather thick, evergreen (at the South) ; flowers 
not fragrant, whorled in short spikes; corolla-tube long and narrow, 
limb 5-lobed, nearly regular, usually scarlet outside and yellowish 
inside; berries red. A native shrub, often cultivated, climbing 
about 15 ft. high. 
6b. (L. Caprirotium), EvuRopEAN MHONEYSUCKLE. Leaves 
smooth and deciduous, several of the upper pairs united at their 
bases to form a flattish disk or somewhat cup-shaped leaf ; flowers in 
