218 CAPRIFOLIACE^. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



etc. The well-known Snow-ball Tree, or Guelder-Rose, is a cultivated 

 state, with the whole cyme turned into showy sterile flowers. (Eu.) 



3. V. pauciflomm, Pylaie. A low straggling shrub; leaves glal)rous 

 or loosely pubescent beneath, 5-ribbed at base, unequally serrate nearly all 

 round, with 3 short lobes at the summit ; cyme few-flowered ; stamens shorter 

 than tlie corolla. — Cold Avoods, Newf. and Lab. to the mountains of N. Eng., 

 westward to Is. Mich, and the Rocky Mts. 



§ 3. Cijme never radiant; drupes blue, or dark-purple or black at maturity. 



* Leaves 3-ribbed from the rounded or subcordate base, somewhat 3-lobed ; stip- 



ides bristle-shaped. 



4. V. aeerifolium, L. (Dockmackie. Areoav-avood.) Shrub 3 -C° 

 high; leaves soft-downy beneath, the pointed lobes diverging, unequally 

 toothed; cymes small, slender-peduncled ; stamens exserted ; fruit crimson 

 turning purple ; stone lenticular, hardly sulcate. — Cool rocky Avoods, from 

 N. Brunswick to N. C, and Avest to S. Minn. 



* * Leaves {with base inclined to heart-shaped) coarsely toothed, prominently pin- 



nately veined ; stipules narrowly subulate ; no rusty scurf; fruit ovoid, blue 

 or purple ; the stone grooved ; cymes peduncled. 



■i- Stone flat ; leaves all short-petioled or subsessile. 



5. V. pubescens, Pursh. (Doaa'ny A.) A loAv, straggling shrub ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, acute or taper-pointed, the veins and teeth fcAver and 

 less conspicuous than in the next, the loAver surface and very short petioles 

 soft-downy, at least when young ; fruit dark-purple ; the stone lightly 2-sul- 

 cate on the faces. — Rocks, etc., LoAver Canada to the mountains of Ga., Avest 

 to loAva and Minn. June. 



-i- -*- Stone very deeply sulcate ventrally ; leaves rather slender-petioled. 



6. V. dentatum, L. (Arroaa'-avood.) Smooth, 5- 15° high, Avith ash- 

 colored bark ; leaves broadly ovate, very numerously sharp-toot lied and strongly 

 veined; fruit 3" long; cross-section of stone betAveen kidney- and horseshoe- 

 shaped. — Wet places, N. Brunswick to N. Ga., and Avest to Minn. June. — 

 The pale leaves often Avith hairy tufts in the axils of tlie straight veins 



7. V. molle, Michx. Leaves broadly oval, obovate or ovate, scarcely 

 pointed, coarsely crenate or repand-toothed, the lower surface, brauclilets and 

 cymes soft-doAvny, the latter with stellate pubescence ; fruit oily, larger and 

 more pointed, the stone as in n. 6, but less deeply excavated. — Coast of N. 

 Eng. (Martha's Vineyard), to Tex. 



* * * Leaves finely serrate or entire, bright green ; veins not prominent : sfipides 



none ; irhole plant glabrous or with some minute rusty scurf; fruit black or 

 with a blue bloom, sweet ; stone very fat and even, broadly oval or orbicular. 

 •«- Cymes peduncled, about 5-rayed ; drupes globose-ovoid, 3" loyig , shrubs 5-12° 

 high, in sivamps. 



8. V. cassinoides, L. (Withe-rod.) Shoots scurfy -punctate ; leaves 

 thickish and opaque or dull, ovate to oblong, mostly Avith obtuse acumination, 

 obscurely veiny (1 -3' long), «v7A margins irregularly crenulate-denticulate or 

 sometimes entire ; peduncle shorter than the cyme. (V, nudum, Aar. cassinoides, 

 Torr. <j- Gray.) — Newf. to N. J. and Miuu. Flowers earlier than tlie next. 



