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172 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



6. VIBURNUM, ARROW-WOOD, &c. (Ancient Latin name, of un- 

 certain meaning.) Flowers white, or nearly so, in spring or early summer: 

 fruit ripe in autumn. 



1 . Floivers all alike, small, and perfect. 

 * Cult, or planted from S. Europe, with evergreen smooth entire leaves. 



V. TimiS, LAURESTINUS. Not hardy N., but a common house-plant, 

 winter-flowering, or planted out in summer ; leaves oblong ; fruit dark purple. 



* * Wild species, some occasionally planted : leaves deciduous, at least N. 



*- Leaves not lobed nor coarsely toothed, smooth or with some minute scurf: fruit 

 black or with a bluish bloom. 



+* Leaves glossy , finely and evenly serrate with very sharp teith. 

 V. Lentago, SHEEP-BERRY. Tree 15 -30 high, common in moist 

 grounds, chiefly N. ; leaves ovate, conspicuously pointed, on long margined 

 petioles ; cyme broad, sessile ; fruit oval, ^' or more long, sweet, eatable. 



V. prunifblium, BLACK HAW. Dry soil, from Conn, to 111. and S. : 

 hai'dly so tall as the preceding, with smaller and oval mostly blunt leaves. 

 ++ - Leaves entire or with a few wary or crenate small teeth, thickish. 



V. obovatum. Along streams from Virginia S. : shrub with obovate 

 leaves seldom over 1' long, and small sessile cvmes. 



V. nudum, WITHE-ROD. Swamps, from New England to Florida ; with 

 leaves oval, oblong, or almost lanceolate, not glossy ; cyme on a peduncle ; fruit 

 roundish. 



H- -t- Leaves coarsely toothed, strongly feather-reined, the veins prominently marked, 

 straight and simple or nearly so : fruit small : cyme peduncled. 



V. dentatum, ARROW-WOOD (the stems having been used by the Indians 

 to make arrows). Common in wet soil, 5- 10 high, smooth, with ash-colored 

 bark, pale and broadly ovate evenly sharp-toothed leaves, on slender petioles, 

 and bright blue fruit. 



V. molle, SOFT A. From Kentucky S., soft-downy, with less sharply 

 toothed oval or obovate leaves, on slender petioles, and blue oily fruit. 



V. pub^scens, DOWNY A. Rocky grounds, N. & W. ; a low and strag- 

 gling shrub, with ovate or oblong and acute or taper-pointed leaves, having 

 rather few coarse teeth, their lower surface and the very short petioles soft-downy ; 

 fruit dark purple. 



*--- Leaves both coarsely toothed and somewhat 3-lobed, roundish, 3 - 5-ribbed 

 front tliR base and veiny : cymes slender-peduncled, small : fruit red. 



V. acerifblium, MAPLE-LEAVED A. or DOCKMACKIE. Shrub 3 - 6 

 high, in rocky woods, with 3-ribbed and 3-iobed leaves soft-downy beneath, their 

 pointed lobes diverging ; stamens slender. 



V. pau.cifl.6rum. Cold woods, only far N. or on mountains ; with almost 

 smooth leaves 5-ribbed at base and 3-lobed at summit ; cyme few-flowered ; 

 fruit sour. 



2. Flowers round the margin of the cyme neutral (without stamens or pistils) and 

 very much larger than the fei tile ones, Hydrangea-like and showy : petiolf-s 

 bearing erident appendages ivhich imitate stipules : fruit red, sour. 



V. Opulus, CRANBERRY-TREE. Tall and nearly smooth shrub, with gray 

 bark, scaly buds, 3 - 5-ribbed and strongly 3-lobed leaves, the lobes pointed and 

 commonly few-toothed, and cymes peduncled. The wild form in low grounds 

 N. & E. ; the juicy acid fruit bright red, used as a substitute for cranberries 

 (whence the name of HIGH CRANBERRY-BUSH). The long-cultivated form 

 from Europe, planted for ornament, under the name of GUELDER ROSE or 

 SNOWBALL-TREE, has most of the flowers of the cyme changed into enlarged 

 corollas. 



V. lantanoides, HOBBLE-BUSH (popular name from the straggling or 

 reclining branches taking root at the end, and forming loops ; the botanical 

 name because the leaves resemble the V. LAXTANA x>r WAYFARING-TEEE of 



