306 CAPRIFOLIACEiE. Viburnum. 



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A shrub 6-8 feet high, with obtusely angular smooth branches ; the young shoots slender 

 and very straight. Leaves about 2 inches long, and of nearly the same breadth, often more 

 or less cordate ; the teeth slightly ciliate with fine hairs : petioles half an inch long. Cymes 

 on long naked peduncles. Calyx-teeth obtuse. Fruit the size of a small pea, nearly black 

 when ripe ; the pulp thin. Transverse section of the nucleus reniform ; the sides somewhat 

 incurved. 



Low grounds and borders of rivers ; common. Fl. June. Fr. September. 



5. Viburnum pubescens, Pursh. (Plate XLIII.) Pubescent Viburnum. 



Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, with very short petioles, coarsely dentate-serrate, 

 appearing plicate from the straight sparingly branched veins, smoothish above, pubescent or 

 villous-tomentose underneath ; cyme pedunculate, nearly smooth ; fruit oblong ; the much 

 compressed nucleus slightly 2-grooved on one side, and obtusely ridged on the other. — Pursh, 

 fl.l.p.202; Torr. fl. I. p. 320 ; DC. prodr. 4. p. 326; Hook. fl. Bor. -Am. 1. p. 280; 

 Beck, hot. p. 156 ; Torr. <^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 16. V. dentatum, var. pubescens. Ait, 

 Kew. (ed. 1.) 1. p. 168. V. dentatum, var. semitomentosum, Michx. fl,. 1. p. 179 (partly). 

 V. villosum, Raf. in med. repos. (hex. 2 ) 5. p. 361 (not of Swartz). V. tomentosum, Raf. 

 I. c. V. Rafinesquianum, Rcem. ^ Schult. syst. 6. p. 630. 



A shrub 2-3 feet high, with grayish slender angular branches. Leaves about 2 inches 

 long, often cordate at the base, sometimes only pubescent on the veins underneath, but usually 

 clothed with a soft almost velvety pubescence. Peduncle at first about an inch long ; of the 

 fruit nearly twice as long. Calyx-teeth acute, purplish. Corolla larger than in the preceding 

 species. Fruit about one-fourth of an inch long, reddish, with a thin pulp. 



Dry rocky banks, and in bushy places. Highlands of New- York ; about Albany and Troy, 

 and in the northern and western counties ; rather rare. Fl. June. Fr. August. 



»♦ I^eaves lobed or incised. 



6. Viburnum acerifolium, Linn. Maple-leaved Arrow-wood. 



Leaves roundish or broadly ovate, mostly somewhat cordate, 3-lobed, 3-ribbed from the 

 base, coarsely and unequally toothed, velvety-pubescent and woolly in the axils underneath ; 

 the lobes diverging and mostly acuminate ; petioles (and young branchlets) pubescent, furnished 

 nesir the base with two setaceous stipule-like appendages ; cymes pedunculate ; fruit oval, 

 compressed. — Linn. sp. 1. p. 268 ; Vent. hort. Cels. t. 272 ; Michx. fl. \. p. 180 ; Pursh, 

 fl.l. p. 203 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 264 ; Wats, dendr. Brit. 1.^118; Torr.fl. 1. p. 320 ; Bigel. 

 fl. Bost. p. 116 ; Hook. fl. Bor. -Am. 1. p. 280 (partly) ; Beck, hot. p. 156 ; Darlingt, fl. 

 Cest. p. 204 ; Torr. 4- Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 17. 



A shrub 3-5 feet high, with smooth, straight and slender branches ; the smaller twigs 

 somewhat quadrangular. Leaves 3-5 inches in diameter, nearly smooth or with short scattered 



