CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 349 
VIBURNUM. Arrow Wood. 
(Family Caprifoliaceae). 
Shrubs or occasionally small 
trees: deciduous except for a few 
tender species. Twigs moderate 
or rather slender, more or less 6- 
sided: pith moderate, round or 
somewhat 6-sided, white or brown- 
ing, continuous. Buds solitary or 
very exceptionally superposed, 
mostly stalked, ovoid or oblong, 
without scales (1) or with a pair 
of mostly connate scales (2, 3), or 
with one (4, 5) or rarely several 
pairs of separate exposed scales. 
Leaf-scars opposite, crescent- 
shaped or exceptionally broad, 
sometimes ciliate at top, often 
raised and meeting or transversely 
connected: bundle-traces 3: sti- 
pule scars lacking. 
Winter-character references: — 
Viburnum dentatum. Brendel, pl. 
1. V. dilatatum. Shirasawa, 273, pl. 11. V. furcatum. Shi- 
rasawa, 269, pl. 10. V. Lantana. Bosemann, 57; Schneider, 
f.192: Ward, 1:70) £,:49,: 165; £.,80;. Willkonim,. 3,9, 49;..£..88; 
Zuccarini, 28, pl. 15. V. Lentago. Brendel, pl. 1; Hitchcock 
(1), 3; Otis, 228; Schneider, f. 192. V. Opulus. Bosemann, 
57; Fant, 45, f. 50; Lubbock, On Buds and Stipules; Schnei- 
der, f. 192; Shirasawa, 270, pl. 10; Ward, 1:168, f. 82; Will- 
komm, 9, 10, 11, 49, f. 87; Zuccarini, 27, pl. 15. V. phlebotri- 
chum. Shirasawa, 277, pl. 12. V. prunifolium. Hitchcock 
(1), 3. V. Sieboldii. Shirasawa, 273, pl. 11. V. tomentosum. 
Shirasawa, 273, pl. 11. V. Wrightii. Shirasawa, 274, pl. 11. 
On winter-characters some species of Viburnum are easily 
