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2. DIERVlLLA. BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. 



Erect, low shrubs or bushes: leaves simple, opposite, ovate or oblong, 

 acute-pointed, serrate, deciduous: flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, or 

 solitary; calyx-tube slender, limb of 5 slender, persistent lobes; corolla 

 funnelform, 5 lobes almost regular; stamens 5: ovary inferior, 2-celled, 

 1 filiform style: fruit slender 2-celled many-seeded pod, crowned with calyx. 



D. Lonicera, Mill. Bushy shrub, 1-4 ft.: leaves oval to ovate, taper- 

 pointed, on short petioles: peduncles terminal or in upper axils, mostly 3- 

 flowered: corolla slender, tubular, greenish yellow (honey color), not over 

 % in. long. Banks. Summer. 



D. hybrida, Hort. Weigela. Shrub, 2-8 ft.: leaves oval, acute coarsely 

 serrate, rather rough above and soft below, short -petioled : flowers funnel- 

 form, 1-13^ in. long; tube downy without; 5-lobed; the limb spreading. A 

 group of common garden shrubs, derived from 2 or more Japanese species, 

 with white, pink, or red showy flowers. 



3. VIBtJRNUM. ARROW-WOOD. 



Erect shrubs, with simple leaves and small whitish flowers in broad 

 cymes: stamens 5; stigmas 1-3: fruit a small 1-seeded drupe. 



a. Flowers all alike in the cyme. 



V. Lentago, Linn. Sheepberry. Fig. 305. Tall shrub (to 20 it.): leaves 

 ovate-pointed, finely and sharply serrate, shining above, on long margined 

 petioles: fruit ^ in. or more long, black. Common. 



V. acerfolium, Linn. Dockmackie. Arrow-wood. Six ft. or less: leaves 

 3-lobed and maple-like, downy beneath: cyme small and slender-stalked: 

 fruit flat and small. Woods. 



aa. Flowers larger on the margin of the cyme. 



V. Opulus, Linn., var. americanum, Ait. High-bush cranberry. Erect, 

 10 ft. or less: leaves 3-lobed and toothed: outer flowers sterile and large: 

 fruit an acid red edible drupe. Swamps. In cultivation all the flowers have 

 become sterile, resulting in the "snowball." Compare Figs. 264, 265. 



V. tomentdsum, Thunb. (V. plicatum of gardens). Japanese snowball. 

 Leaves not lobed, shallow-toothed, thickish, plicate: heads of sterile flowers 

 axillary, globular. Japan. 



V. alnifdlium, Marsh. Hobblebush. About 5 ft., with straggling branches, 

 often arching to ground and rooting, thus making loops or "hobbles:" 

 flowers resemble those of wild hydrangea, in flat-topped cymes, with mar- 

 ginal flowers larger, sterile and showy, white: leaves very large, round or 

 heart-shaped, finely serrate, petioles and veinlets scurfy: drupes coral-red, 

 becoming purple, not edible. Cold woods and swamps. 



4. SAMBtCUS. ELDER. 



Strong shrubs, with pinnate leaves and sharp-serrate leaflets: flowers in 

 dense corymbose cymes; calyx-teeth very small or none; corolla shallow, 

 open ; stamens 5 ; stigmas 3 : pith prominent in the stems. Common. 



