760 CAPRI FOLIACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY) 



conspicuous than in no. 10, the lower surface and very short petioles soft-downy, 

 at least when young ; fruit dark purple ; the stone slightly 2-sulcate on the faces. 



Calcareous ridges and banks, w. Que. and Vt. to Man., s. to Ga., 111., la., and 

 Wyo. May, June. 



-t- *- Stone very deeply sulcate neutrally; leaves rather slender-petioled. 



7. V. m611e Michx. Shrub, 3-4 m. high, with gray eorfoliating bark; leaves 

 suborbicular or broadly ovate, short-acuminate, cordate, coarsely dentate, dark 

 green and glabrous above, pale and soft-pubescent beneath, 5-13 cm. long, on 

 petioles 2-4 cm. long ; stipules rather short, finally deciduous ; fruit dryish, 

 ellipsoid, 1 cm. long, much compressed ; stone deeply grooved. ( V. Dewtrin- 

 nis Deane & Robinson.) Bluffs and rocky woods, Ky. (and probably O.), 

 Mo., and la. May. 



8. V. ven&sum Britton. Shrub, with close gray-brown bark, the young 

 branches cinereous with stellate tomentum; leaves elliptic-ovate to orbicular, 

 3-6 cm. long, sharply serrate-dentate, dark green above, beneath pale with stel- 

 late tomentum andwith 7-9 pairs of prominent veins; cymes 4-6 cm. broad, the 

 long peduncle and 7 rays pubescent ; drupe subglobose or short-ovoid, 7 mm. 

 long. (V. molle Man. ed. 6, in part, not Michx.) Dry open soil, Martha's 

 Vineyard and Nantucket to Pa. and Del. June, July. Var. CANBYI Render. 

 Leaves larger (6-8 cm. long), glabrous or glabrate beneath ; cymes 7-9 cm. 

 broad. Pa. and Del. to the mts. of Va. 



9. V. scabr611um (T. &G.) Chapm. Similar; branches reddish-brown; leaves 

 oblong to obovate, rarely orbicular, 4-10 dm. long, shallowly crenate-dentate, 

 with 5-7 pairs of less prominent veins; cymes similar, the flowers larger. 

 ( V. molle Man. ed. 6, in part, not Michx.; V. semitomentosum Render.) 

 Woods and banks of streams, Pa. to Fla. and Tex. June. 



10. V. dentatum L. (ARROW-WOOD.) Smooth, 1-4.5 m. high, with ash- 

 colored bark ; leaves broadly ovate, glabrous, or with hairy tufts in the axils 

 beneath, very numerously sharp-toothed and strongly veined, 5-8 cm. long ; 

 fruit globose-ovoid, 6 ram. long ; cross-section of stone between kidney- and 

 horseshoe-shaped. Wet places, N. B. to n. Ga., w. to w. N. Y. and s. Ont. 

 June, July. 



4. TlNUS (Borkh.) Koehne. Winter-buds with opposite scales; leaves finely 

 toothed or entire, pinnately veined, the veins curved and anastomosing near 

 the margin; drupes blue or black, sweet; stone fiat and even. 



11. V. cassinoides L. (WITHE-ROD, WILD RAISIN.) Shrub or small tree, 

 0.5-3.6 m high ; shoots scurfy-punctate ; leaves thickish and opaque or dull, 

 ovate to oblong, mostly with obtuse acumination, obscurely veiny. I'.A-IO cm. 

 long, with margins irregularly crenulate-denticulate or sometimes entire ; p< <i un- 

 cle shorter than the usually 5-rayed cyme; drupe ellipsoid to spherical, 6-9 mm. 

 long, yellowish and pink when young, finally blue-black, with a bloom. Swamps 

 and open situations, Nfd. to N. C., Minn., and Man. June, July. 



12. V. nudum L. Similar ; obscurely scurfy-punctate ; leaves more veiny, 

 thickish, oval, oblong or lanceolate, entire or obsoletely denticulate, lucid above, 

 6-10 cm. long ; peduncle usually equaling the cyme. Ct. to Ky., Fla., and Tex. 



!'!. V. LentagO L. (SwEET Vim I:M M. SIIKKI-UKKIM . NAXXYKKKUY. Wn.n 

 II MSIN.) Shrub or tree, sometimes 9 m. high ; leaves ovate, r/o,sv/// and very 

 sfi<D'i>ly serrate, at least the upper caudate-acuminate and <> >i'h/</t'<l /w//rs; 

 cyme sessile, 6-10 cm. broad, :\-4-rnyi <l ; tfrnjte ovoid or ellipsoid, blue-black, 

 1 !."> nn. long Woods and banks of streams, Que. to Man., and southw. 

 May, June. An extreme form with spherical fruit 8-10 mm. in diameter has 

 been distinguished as var. SPHAEROCARPUM Gray. 



14. V. prunif61ium L. (BLACK HAW.) Tall shrub or small tree; teate* 

 oval, obtuse or slightly pointed, finely and sharply serrate, 2-7 cm. loim. th< 

 lower surfaces </,/<} slender or slightly winged petioles glabrous { cyme 3-5-rayed ; 

 fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, similar to that of the pmvdin.i: species or rather smaller. 



Dry or moist ground, Ct. to Mich., Kan., and southw. May. June. The 

 extreme form with smaller globose fruit is var. OLOKOSUM Nash. 



