760 CAPFvIFOLlACEAE (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- 4- Stone very deeply sulcate ventraUy ; leaves rather slender-petioled. 



7. V. m611e Michx. Shrub, 3-4 m. high, with gray exfoliating 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 shorty finally deciduous ; fruit dryish, 

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

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

 Mo., and la. May. 



8. V. ven5sum Britton. Shrub, with close yray-broion bark, the young 

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

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

 late tomentum and with 1-9 pairs of prominent veins; cymes 4-6 cm. broad, the 

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

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

 Vineyard and Nantucket to Pa. and Del. June, July. Var. Canbyi Rehdcr. 

 Leaves larger (5-8 cm. long), glabrous or glabrate beneath ; cymes 7-9 cm. 

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



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

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

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

 ( F". molle Man. ed. 6, in part, not Michx.; V. semitomentosum Rehder.) — 

 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 mm. long ; cross-section of stone between kidney- and 

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

 June, July. 



§ 4. TtNUS (Borkh.) Koehne. Winter-buds loith opposite scales; leaves finely 

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

 the margin; drupes blue or black, sweet; stone flat 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, 2.5-10 cm. 

 long, loith margins irregularly crenulate-denticulate or sometimes entire ; pedun- 

 cle shorter than the usually b-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, 

 5-10 cm. long ; peduncle usually equaling the cyme. — Ct. to Ky., Fla., and Tex. 



13. V. Lentago L. (Swp:et Vihiirnim, Sheepbekrv, Nannyberkv, Wild 

 R.visin.) Shrub or tree, sometimes m. high ; leaves ovate, closely and very 

 sharply serrate, at least the upper caudate-acuminate and on winged petioles; 

 cyme sessile, 6-10 cm. broad, S-4-7'ayed ; drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, blue-black, 

 1-1.5 cm. 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. prunifblium L. (Black Haw.) Tall shrub or small tree ; leavt^t 

 oval, obtuse nr slightly pointed, finely and sharply serratt^, 2-7 cm. long, tJie 

 lower surfaces and slendfr or slightly wing^MJ pt^liolts glabrous ; cyme3-5-rayed ; 

 fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, similar to that of the jtreceding species or rather smaller. 



— Dry or moist ground. Ct. to Mich., Kaii.. and southw. May, June, TiiC 

 extreme form with smaller globose fruit is var. <jloi{osi;,m Nash. 



