VIBURNUM 



VICIA 



1927 



glabrous, 2-5 in. long: fls. yellowish white: cymes long- 

 peduncled, terminal, lK-3 in. broad : fr. almost black, 

 ovoid. May, June. New Brunswick to Minn., south to 

 N. C. Em. 2:414.— It grows fairly well in drier situa- 



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Fv 



II \1I H tpulp form 

 ing Krge glol ose heads 

 &ng 1 9 (tu 56 p 83 — 

 This IS 1 vers showy var 

 but it lacks the decorative 

 fruits There are also 

 variegate 1 forms of the 

 type in 1 of the sterile va 

 riet> The American Clan 

 berrj bush is considere 1 

 by some botanists a dis 

 tinct species under the 



Mill but hffers little from 



2665 Fru ts of Viburnum the European form chieflv 



Opulus(Xi4) ^"^ *^^ more vigorous 



growth by the petioles 



having a shallow rather broad channel and small glands, 



and by the shorter peduncles and shorter stamens. 



29. S&rgentii, Koehne. Similar to the preceding, of 

 more upright, denser habit: bark of stems darker, fis- 

 sured and somewhat corky, young branchlets with prom- 



inent lenticels: ivs. of thicker texture, pubescent or 

 glabrous beneath, the upper Ivs. with much elongated 

 and usually entire middle lobe and small, short, spread- 

 ing lateral lobes; petioles with large glands: sterile 

 fls. larger, sometimes to IH in. across; anthers purple: 

 fr. globose, in usually upright cymes. N. China, Japan. 

 -Introduced under the name Viburnum Opulus from 

 Pekin. It does not seem to fruit as profusely as V. 

 Opulus. 



r. Burejwticum. Herd. & RpEfl (V. Biirejamim, Herd.). 

 Similar to V. LantniKi, Ln-, n ".i t^ >■.,,,.! tl,.. i,n=p, vena- 

 tion like that of V. in;irv. ■■''-' '■."'■' ■ -iiys: fr. 



pinkish or yellowisli. M.-)> , i l i: nirl.-md. 



Gt. Il:a84.— r. ror((i7n/,i(„/ \. -^ i ■ i i • , I. ilium, 



but cymes without riuUiuit IK I— L.-fore 



thelvs. Himalayas.- V. />(7/ii'iK-i,/„, r. ni.iming 



6 ft.: Ivs. broadiy ovate to oval, 1'.. -' : Itorm, 



in short, small panicles : fr. tinally M;ii I I ' ; ^^ clima. 



— y. densiflbrum, Chapm. Closely :illi. ■ \ )i"lium. 



Lower: Ivs. smaller, 1-2 in., with mo^i 1,\ I ■ -rnone: 



cymes denser. ^. ¥\:^ -V rllii,th;n„ . \\....\, :-i, i ul- attain- 

 ing 5 ft., allied to V •.-.•rif"litnn, I. m l%- i,..i I, . in, 1 .iv:,l to el- 

 liptic-oblong : fr. (il.l.Miu "\.il, .iliiio^' '..' Ill Idii^ \\ ash. to 



Ca.m.-V. hircalu.,,. I'.Iun,.. <ln~il> ,a 1 M \- alnilolmm, 



but of upright haliil ami stam.'iiv slicilcr t liaii r.m.lla. Jap., 

 Caina—Y. Hancmnum. .Max, .\llie,l tu V. tomeiit,..suin; Ivs. 

 broader, with few teeth above tlio middle. S. China. Tender. 

 Seems not in cultivation. See No. 22.- F. orimMk, PaU. Al- 

 lied to V. acerifolium: shrub, attaining 4 ft.: Ivs. wlt.i simple, 

 not fascicled hairs on the veins beneath and not glandular 

 dotted beneath: fr. red. June, July. W.Asia. Gt. 17:567. 

 Alfred Kehder. 



2666. Snowball— Viburnum Opulus. var. sterile (X K). 



All the fertile flowers are changed to sterile, showy ones. 



VtCIA (classical Latin name). Vetch. Tare. More 

 than 100 species of herbs, mostly climbing, with pinnate 

 foliage, closely allied to Lathyrus, Pisum and Lens, but 

 differing in minute floral characters: wings adhering to 

 the keel; style very slender, with beards or hairs all 

 around the upper part or only at the apex; pod flat, 2- 

 many-seeded, 2-valved and dehiscent, the seeds either 

 globular or flattish; stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). 

 Flowers mostly blue or violet, sometimes yellowish or 

 white. The Vicias are widely spread in the northern 

 hemisphere and some of them in South America. About 

 two dozen species occur in North America, some of the 

 species introduced. Most of the Vicias are weedy or in- 

 significant looking plants, but a few are grown for the 

 bright flowers, others of late for green-manure crops 

 (see Cover-Crops], and one ( ('. Faba ) is a garden bean. 

 The species are mostly cool-season plants of easy cul- 

 ture. The interest in the Vetches in this country is 

 mostly for their value as soil covers and for foliage. V. 

 sativd and V. villosa are the important species here at 

 present. 



