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 . Flowers nil alike, small, and perfect. 

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



V. Tinus, LAURESTIXUS. Not hardy N., but a common house-plant, 

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



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



*- Leaves not lobtd nor coarsely loof/icd, smooth or with some minute scurf : fruit 



with a bluish bloom. 



-* Leaves fjlosay, finely and evenly serrate with very sharp teeth. 

 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. prtmifblium, BLACK II vw. Dry soil, from Conn, to 111. and S. : 

 hardly so tall as the preceding, with smaller and oval mostly blunt leaves. 

 ++ *- Leaves entire or with ti Jew wary or crenate small tei-th, thickuli. 



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

 leaves seldom over 1' long, and small sessi!e cvincs. 



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

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

 roundish. 



*- <- Leaves coarsely toothed, strongly feather-veined, the veins prominently marked, 

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



V. deiltatum, 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 loaves, having 

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

 fruit dark purple. 



H- --*- Leaves l>oth coarsely toothed and somewhat 3-lobed, roundish, 3 - 5-ribbed 

 from the Ixise and veiny : cymes s/ender-peduncled, small : fruit red. 



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

 high, in rocky woods, with 3-ribbod and 3-lobed leaves soft-downy beneath, their 

 pointed lobes diverging ; stamens slender. 



V. pauciflbrum. 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 in HI-/I /<tr</er than the. fei tile ones, Hydi //'/' -/'/>>' <m<l shotcy : petiolfS 

 bearing erident appendages icfn'ch imitati- ttipulet : fruit red, sour. 



V. (^pulus, CRANBERRY-TREE. Tall and nearly smooth shrub, with gray- 

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

 commonly few-toothed, and cymes pedimeled. 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 CRANHEKHY-IM su ). The long-cultivated form 

 from Europe, planted for ornament, under the name of (ii KI.DKK ROSE or 

 SNOWIIALL-TKKK, has most of the flowers of the cyme changed into enlarged 

 eon llas. 



V. lantanoides, Honr.LE-nusn (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. LANT\NA or WAYFARING-TREE of 



