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1. A. Moschat^Uina, L. Smooth, rmisk-siented ; nulical leaves 1-3- 

 ternate, tlie cauline 3-clcft or3-parted ; leaflets ohovate, 3-eleft ; flowers several 



in a close cluster on a slender peduncle, greenish or Nclluwish. N. Icnva, 



Wise., and Minn., and northward. (Hu., Asia.) 



2. SAMBUCUS, Tourn. Ki.oku. 



Calyx-lohes minute or obsolete. Corolla open urn-shaped, with a hroadlv 

 spreading 5-cleft limb. Stamens .5. Stigmas 3. Fruit a berrv-like juicv 

 drupe, containing 3 small seed-like nutlets. — Shrul)by |»lants, with a rank 

 smell when bruised, pinnate leaves, serrate-pointed leaHcts, and numcrMUs 

 small and white flowers in compound cymes. (The Latin name, perhaps from 

 crafx^vKT], an ancient musical instrument.) 



1. S. Canadensis, L. (Common Kldkh.) Stems .scarcely woody (."i - 

 10° high); leujiets 5-11, ohlomj, mostly smooth, tiie lower often 3-parted ; 

 cijmes fat ; fruit black-purple. — Rich soil, in open places, throughout our 

 range, and soutli and west. June, July. — Pith white. 



2. S. racembsa, L. (Ked-berkieu Elder.) Stems woody (2-12^ 

 high), the bark warty; leaf els 5-7, ovate4anceolate, doicni/ underneath ; ct/mes 

 panic-led, convex or pyramidal ; fruit bright red (rarely white). (S. pubens, 

 Michx.) — Rocky woods, N. Scotia to Ga., and westward across the continent. 

 May ; the fruit ripening in June. — Pith brown. Both species occur with the 

 leaflets divided into 3-5 linear-lauceolate 2-3-cleft or laciuiate segments. 



3. VIBURNUM, L. Arrow-wood. Lairestixls. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla spreading, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Stigmas 

 1 -3. Fruit a 1-celled, 1-seeded drupe, with soft pulp and a thin-crustat-eous 

 (flattened or tumid) stone. — Shrubs, with simple leaves, and white flowers in 

 flat compound cymes. Petioles sometimes bearing little appendages which are 

 evidently stipules. Leaf-buds naked, or with a pair of scales. (The classical 

 Latin name, of unknown meaning.) 



§ 1. Cijvie radiant, the marginal fowers neutral, with greatli/ enlarged fat co- 

 rollas as in Hydrangea; drupes coral-red turning darker, not acid ; stone 

 sulcate ; leaves jiinnatelij veined; xcinter-huds naked. 



1. V. lantanoides, Michx. (Hobble-bush. American Wavfaring- 



TREE.) Leaves (4-8' across) round-ovate, abruptly pointed, heart-shaped at 

 the base, closely serrate, the veins and veinlets beneath with the stalks and 

 branchlets very rusty-scurfy ; cymes sessile, very broad aiid flat. — Cold moist 

 woods, N. Brunswick to Dnt. and l*enn., and in the mounUiins to N. C. May. 

 A straggling shrub; the reclining branches often taking root. 

 § 2. Cgme peduncled, radiant in n. 2 ; dru})e light red, arid, glof>ose ; stnne 

 verg fat, orbicular, not sulcate; leaves pnlmately veined ; xrinter-lmds scaly. 



2. V. Opulus, L. (Cranberrv-tree.) Nearly smooth, upright (4- 10° 

 high) ; leaves 3-5-ribbed, strongly 3-lobed, broadly we«lge-shaped or truncate 

 at base, the spreading lol)es pointed, mostly toothed on the sides, entire in the 

 sinuses; petioles bearing 2 glands at the a])ex. — Ixjw ground, along streams, 

 from N.Brunswick farwcstwanl, ami south to Penu. June, July. — The acid 

 fruit is a substitute for cranberries, whence the names /////// Cranl>frry-l>u.<h, 



