206 CAriiiFOLiACE^. (honeysuckle family.) 



pauicled, convex or pyramidal ; fruit hrir/hl red (rarely white). — Eocky woods; 

 cliieHy northward, and southward in the mountains. May : the fruit ripening 

 in June. — I'ith brown. — Var. with dissected leaves, Lake buijerior, Ltvcis Foote, 

 Dr. Ilobbins. 



7. VIBURNUM, L. Akrow-wood. L.vukestixcs. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla spreading, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Stigmas 

 1-3. Fruit a 1-celled, 1-seeded drupe, with soft pulp and a thin-crustaeeous 

 (flattened or tumid) stone. — Shrubs, with simple leaves, and white (lowers in 

 flat compound cymes. Petioles sometimes bearing little appendages which are 

 evidently stipules. Leaf-buds naked, or with a pair of scales. (The classical 

 Latin name, of unknown meaning.) 



§ 1 . Flowers all alike and perfect. 



* Leaves fnelt/ serrate or entire, bri(jht (jreen ; veiiis not prominent : no stipular ap- 



pendatjes: ivliole plant glabrous or with some minute rusty scurf : fruit black or 

 ivilh a blue bloom, sweet; the stone very flat and even, broadly oval or orbicular. 



1. V. Lentigo, L. (Sweet Vibuknum. Siieei'-bekkv.) Leaves ovate, 

 strom/ly jiointcd, closely and very sharply serrate ; petioles long and margined ; 

 cyme sessile ; fruit oval, h' or more long, rii)c in autumn, edible ; tree 15° -30° 

 high. — Copses, &c. : common, especially northward. May, June. 



2. V. prunif61ium, L. (Black Haw.) Leaves oval, obtuse or sli<;litly 

 pointed, flnely aiid sharply seirate, smaller than in the preceding (l'-2' long) ; 

 fruit similar or rather smaller; cyme sessile. — Dry copses; Connecticut to Illi- 

 nois, and common southward. May. — A tall shrub or small tree. 



3. V. nudum, L. (Withe-rod.) Leaves thickish, oval, oblong or 

 lanceolate, not shiniinj, the maryins entire, repand, or crenale ; cynw shoi t-jiedunrUd ; 

 fruit round-ovoid (3" long). — Var. 1. Claytoxi has the leaves nearly entire, 

 the veins somewhat prominent underneath, and grows in swamps from Massa- 

 chusetts, near the coast, to Virginia and southward. Var. 2. cassinoides (V. 

 pyrifolium, Pursh, ^r.) has more opaque, often toothed leaves ; and grows in cold 

 swamps from Pennsylvania northward. May, June. — Shrub e° - 10° high. 



4. V. Obov^tum, Walt. Letivea obovate or s/iatiilate, dituse, entire or denticu- 

 late, thickish, small (1'- 1^' long), shining; cymes sessile, small; fruit ovoid- 

 oblong. — River-banks, Virgiuu\ and southward. May. — Shrub 2° - 8° high. 



* * Leaves (with base inclined to heart-shaped) coarsely toothed, prominently pinnately 



veined, the veins straight and simple or sparingly forked : no rusty scurf: fruit 

 small, ovoid, blue or purple; the stone tumid and grooved : cymes pedunded. 



5. V. dent^tum, L. (Arrow-wood.) Smooth; leaves broadly ovate, 

 very numerously sharp-toothed and strongly veined, on slender petioles ; fruit bright 

 blue; the turgid stone deeply excavated on one face; cross section of the seed 

 between kidney- nr.d horseshoe-shaped. — Wet places, common northward. June 

 — Slirub 5° - 10° high, with ash-colored bark ; the pale leaves often with hairy 

 tufts in the axils of the straight veins. 



6. V. m611e, INIiclix. leaves broadly oval, obomte or ovate, scarcely pointed, 

 coarsely eremite or rcpand-toothcd, the lower surface, rather slender petioles, brunch- 

 kts and cymes soft-downy, the latter with stellate pubescence; fruit oily [En- 



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