GENUS 2. 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



5. Viburnum pubescens (Ait.) Pursh. 



Downy-leaved Arrow-wood 



Fig. 3961. 



Viburnum dentatum var. pubescens Ait. Hort. Kew. 



i : 372. 1789. 

 V. pubescens Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 202. 1814. 



A shrub, 2-5 high, with numerous straight 

 and slender gray branches. Leaves sessile, or 

 on petioles less than 3" long, ovate or oval, 

 rounded or slightly cordate at the base, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, coarsely dentate, iJ'-3' 

 long, densely velvety-pubescent beneath, glabrous, 

 or with scattered hairs above, or rarely glabrate 

 on both surfaces; cymes peduncled, ii'-2i' broad, 

 the flowers all perfect ; drupes aval, nearly black, 

 about 4" long; stone slightly 2-grooved on both 

 faces. 



Rocky woods and banks, Quebec and Ontario to 

 Manitoba, south, especially along the Alleghanies to 

 Georgia and to Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wyoming. 

 The leaves of shoots are sometimes entire or nearly 

 so. June-July. 



7. Viburnum scabrellum (T. & G.) 



Chapm. Roughish Arrow-wood. 



Fig. 3963- 



V. dentatum semitomentosum Michx. Fl. Bor. 



Am. i : 179. 1803. 

 V. dentatum var. ( ?) scabrellum T. & G. Fl. 



N. A. 2 : 16. 1841. 



V. scabrellum Chapm. Fl. S. States 172. 1860. 

 V. semitomentosum Rehder, Rhodora 6: 59. 



1904. 



Similar to the preceding species but the 

 twigs, petioles, rays of the cyme and lower 

 surfaces of the leaves more or less densely 

 stellate-pubescent ; petioles short and stout- 

 er ; leaves usually larger, crenate or dentate, 

 commonly somewhat pubescent above ; drupe 

 globose-ovoid, blue, 4" in diameter, its stone 

 similar to that of V . dentatum. 



Woodlands and river banks, southern Penn- 

 sylvania to Kentucky, Florida and Texas. Re- 

 ferred, in our first edition, following previous 

 authors, to V. molle Michx., a species long 

 misunderstood. 



6. Viburnum dentatum L. Arrow- 

 wood. Fig. 3962. 

 Viburnum dentatum L. Sp. PI. 268. 1753. 



A shrub with slender glabrous gray 

 branches, sometimes reaching a height of 

 15. Twigs and petioles glabrous ; petioles 

 3"-i2" long ; leaves ovate, broadly oval or 

 orbicular, rounded or slightly cordate at 

 the base, acute or short-acuminate at the 

 apex, prominently pinnately veined, coarsely 

 dentate all around, ii'-3 broad, glabrous 

 on both sides, or sometimes pubescent with 

 simple hairs in the axils of the veins be- 

 neath; cymes long-peduncled, 2'~3' bioad; 

 flowers all perfect ; drupe globose-ovoid, 

 about 3" in diameter, blue, becoming nearly 

 black; stone rather deeply grooved on one 

 side, rounded on the other. 



In moist soil, New Brunswick to Ontario, 

 south along the mountains to Georgia and to 

 western New York, Michigan and Minnesota. 

 Called also mealy-tree. Withe-rod or -wood. 

 May-June. 



