U6 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



equal. Stigmas 3, sessile. Berry ovate or globose, 1-seed- 

 ed, crowned by the teeth of the calyx. 



Pentandria. Tryginia. 



1. V. prunjfolium linn.: branches spreading, smooth; leaves obo- 

 vate, nearly round and oval, very smooth, acutely serrate ; petiole 

 winged ; cymes large, lateral ; corol large. 



HAB. Woods. N. Y. to Car. June. *?. Shrub or small tree. 

 8 15 feet high. Flowers large, white. Fruit oval, dark blue. 



2. V. pyrjfolium Lam. : leaves ovate-oblong, somewhat acute, sub- 

 serrate, smooth ; petioles naked ; cymes large, spreading, on angular 

 peduncles ; fruit ovate-oblong. 



HAB. Mountains. N. S. May, June. T?. Shrub 510 feet 

 high. Flowers white, on large spreading cymes. Fruit red. 



3. V. lentago Linn. : smooth ; leaves broad-ovate or oval, acuminate, 

 sharply serrate ; petioles with waved margins ; cymes terminal, ses- 

 sile ; flo'wen small. 



HAB. Rocky banks of streams. N. Y. to Geor. June. 1?. 

 Shrub 1015 feet high. Flowers small, white. Fruit black. 



4. V. nudum Linn. : leaves oval-oblong, slightly acuminate, smooth 

 above, veins and margins pubescent beneath, obsoletely crenulate ; 

 petioles naked ; cymes peduncled ; flowers small, crowded ; fruit oval, 

 dark blue. V. squamatum R. & S. 



HAB. Swamps. Can. to Geor. June. *?. Shrub 8 12 feet 

 high. Flowers white. Fruit black. 



5. V. lantanoides Mich. : branches flexuous and often procumbent ; 

 leaves orbicular-cordate, abruptly acuminate, unequally serrate ; nerves 

 and petioles purverulent-tomentose ; cymes closely sessile ; fruit 

 ovate V. lantana var. grandifiorum Ait. 



HAB. Mountains. Can. and N. S. May, June. *>. i<hmb 

 4 8 feet high. Fruit red, black when ripe. Hobble Bush. 



6. V, dentatum Linn. : nearly smooth ; leaves on long petioles, or- 

 bicular-ovate, with coarse erratures, plaited ; axils of the veins pubes- 

 eent beneath ; cymes large, terminal, peduncled ; fruit nearly globose, 

 small. V. dentatum var. glabellum Mich. 



HAB. Moist woods. Can. to Car. June. *>. Shrub 8 feet 

 high. Flowers white, in a large expanding cyme. Fruit blue, 

 small. Arrow-wood. 



7. V. pubescens Pursh : pubescent ; leaves on very short petioles, 

 ovate, subcordate, acuminate, dentate- serrate, villous beneath ; cymes 

 pedunculate ; fruit oblong. V. dentatum var. scmitomcjitosum Mich. 



HAB. High grounds. N. Y. to Car. June. *? . Shrub 6 feet 

 high. Flowers in a small cyme. 



8. V. acerifolium Linn. : leaves subcordate, 3-lobed, acutely serrate, 

 pubescent beneath ; petioles without glands, hairy ; cymes on long 

 peduncles ; fruit oval, compressed. 



