CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



sometimes bear reniform, very thin subcordate 

 leaves with minute distant teeth. June-July. 



g. Viburnum molle Michx. Soft- 

 leaved Arrow-wood. Fig. 3965. 



V. molle Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 180. 1803. 

 Viburnum Demetrionis Deane & Robinson, 



Bot. Gaz. 22: 167. pi. 8. 1896. 



A shrub about 12 high, the older twigs 

 at length grayish black, the bark exfoliating. 

 Bud-scales acutish, ciliolate ; leaves broadly 

 ovate or nearly orbicular, short-acuminate 

 at the apex, cordate or truncate at the base, 

 3'-5' long, coarsely dentate, glabrous and 

 bright green above, soft-pubescent and paler 

 beneath, some of the pubescence stellate ; 

 petioles 8"-2o" long ; stipules linear-filiform, 

 2 "-5" long ; cymes terminal, peduncled, 

 4-7-rayed, v glandular-puberulent ; calyx-teeth 

 ciliate; drupe oblong, obtuse at both ends, 

 about 5" long and 2.\" broad, much flattened, 

 with 2 grooves when dry. 



Bluffs and rocky woods, Kentucky, Missouri 

 and Iowa. June. 



8. Viburnum venosum Britton. Veiny 

 Arrow-wood. Fig. 3964. 



Viburnum venosum Britton, Man. 871. 1901. 

 V ' . venosum Canbyi Rehder, Rhodora 6 : 60. 



1904. 



A shrub, 6 high or less, the bark grayish- 

 brown, the young twigs stellate-pubescent 

 or stellate-tomentose. Leaves ovate to 

 orbicular, 2'-$' long, firm, coarsely and 

 sharply dentate, glabrous or with sparse 

 pubescence on the upper side when young, 

 stellate-pubescent, at least on the veins, 

 beneath, the petioles l'-f long; cymes long- 

 stalked, often 3'-4' broad, stellate-pubescent 

 or glabrate ; drupe globose or short-oval. 

 3"-4" in diameter, nearly black. 



Thickets, eastern Massachusetts to New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Shoots 



10. Viburnum cassinoides L. 



Withe-rod. Appalachian Tea. 

 Fig. 3966. 



Viburnum cassinoides L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 



384. 1762. 

 Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides T. & 



G. Fl. N. A. 2: 14. 1841. 



A shrub, 2-i2 high, with ascend- 

 ing gray branches, the twigs some- 

 what scurfy, or glabrous. Leaves 

 ovate or oval, thick, pinnately veined, 

 narrowed or sometimes rounded at 

 the base, acute or blunt-acuminate at 

 the apex, i'-3' long, usually crenu- 

 late, rarely entire, glabrous or very 

 nearly so on both sides; peduncle 

 shorter than or equalling the cyme ; 

 drupe pink, becoming dark blue, 

 globose to ovoid, 3"-5" long; stone 

 round or oval, flattened. 



In swamps and wet soil, Newfound- 

 land to Manitoba, Minnesota, New 

 Jersey, Georgia and Alabama. June- 

 July. False Paraguay-tea. 



