134 Honeysuckle (Caprifoliacece) 



Fig. 57. (i) Hobble-Bush. American Wayfaring Tree. 



V. lantanbides, Michx. 



Flowers, in a sessile cluster, the outer ones showy and 

 imperfect, lacking pistils and stamens, and with the 

 flat corollas much enlarged (nearly one inch across) ; 

 greenish, changing to white ; with five rounded lobes ; 

 the inner flowers much smaller and perfect. May. 



Leaves, four to eieht inches across. Veins and veinlets, 

 beneath, and the leaf-stems very brown-scurfy. 



Fruit, egg-shape, bright red, becoming almost black, not 

 acid. Stone, grooved. September. 



Found, in cool, damp woods, from Pennsylvania north- 

 ward. 



A very straggling shrub about five feet high, its long, 

 almost rope-like branches often reclining and taking root, 

 so forming troublesome " hobbles " for any careless way- 

 farer among them. 



Fig. 58. (2) Bush Cranberry. Cranberry Tree. High 

 Cranberry. V. dpulus, L. 



Flower -clusters, three to four inches across, resembling the 

 last, but not sessile. June, July. 



Leaves, three and one half to five inches wide, strongly 

 three-veined from the base ; three-lobed, the lobes 

 more or less toothed along- the sides, entire in the 

 hollows. Base, broad, wedge-shaped, rounded, or 

 squared. Leaf-stem, with small, wart-like glands near' 

 the upper end. Stipules, almost thread-like. 



