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American Warfaring Tree. 



Cymes \%'-2%' broad, the ray.* slender; drupe nearty black. 



2. Leaves pinnately veined. 

 a. Leaves coarsely dentate, the veins prominent beneath 

 Leaves very short-petioled, pubescent. 5. 



Petioles 3"-2o" long. 



Leaves glabrous, or with tufts of hairs in the axils beneath. 6. 



Leaves pubescent beneath, the pubescence more or less stellate. 



Drupe globose-ovoid; eastern. 7. 



Drupe oblong, twice as long as thiek; western. 8. 



b. Leaves entire, crenulate, or serrulate, the veins not prominent 

 Cymes manifestly peduncled. 



Peduncle shorter than the cyme; leaves crenulate. 

 Peduncle equalling or longer than the cyme; leaves mostly entire. 

 Cymes sessile, or nearly so. 



Leaves slender-petioled, large. 



Leaves prominently acuminate. 

 Leaves obtuse, or merely acute. 



Leaves and scarcely winged petioles glabrous, or nearly so. 

 Veins of lower leaf-surfaces and winged petioles tomentose 

 Leaves nearly sessile, obovate, small. 



i. Viburnum alnifolium Marsh. Hobble-bush 



(Fig. 3434.) 



V. alnifolium Marsh. Arb. Am. 162. 17S5. 



Viburnum lantanoides Michx. Fl. Bor. 

 Am. 1: 179. 1803. 

 A shrub, with smooth purplish bark, 

 sometimes reaching a height of io, 

 widely and irregularly branching, the 

 branches often procumbent, the young- 

 est twigs scurfy. Leaves orbicular, 

 or very broadly ovate, strongly pin- 

 nately veined, short-acuminate or 

 acute at the apex, usually cordate at 

 the base, finely stellate-pubescent, or 

 at length glabrous above, scurfy with 

 stellate pubescence on the veins be- 

 neath, finely serrate all around, 2> / -S / 

 broad; petioles J^'-iK' long; cymes 

 sessile, 2> / S / broad, the exterior flow- 

 ers usually radiant and neutral, about 

 1/ broad; drupes red, becoming purple, 

 ovoid-oblong, 5" -6" long; stone 3- 

 grooved on one side, 1 -grooved on the 

 other. 



In low woods, New Brunswick to North 

 Carolina, western New York and Michi- 

 gan. Leaves of shoots from cut stumps 

 thin, ovate, coarse^- toothed. May-June. 



4. V. aceri/oli ion. 



] r . pitbescens. 



V. dentation. 



V. mo lie. 



V. Demctrionis. 



V. cassinoides. 

 V. nudum. 



11. V. Lentago. 



J', prunifolium. 



J', rufotovientosum. 

 V. obovalum. 



2. Viburnum Opulus L,. Cran- 

 berry-tree. Wild Guelder-rose. 

 High Bush-cranberry. (Fig. 3435.) 



Viburnum OfrulusL,. Sp. PI. 268. 1753. 



V. trilobum Marsh. Arb. Am. 162. 1785. 



A shrub sometimes 12 high, with nearly 

 erect smooth branches. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, sometimes broader than long, gla- 

 brous, or with scattered hairs above, more 

 or less pubescent on the veins beneath, 

 rather deeply 3-lobed, rounded or trun- 

 cate and 3-ribbed at the base, the lobes 

 divergent, acutninate, coarsely dentate; 

 petioles ^ / -i / long, glandular above; 

 cymes peduncled, 3 / -4 / in diameter, the 

 exterior flowers radiant, neutral, y 2 f -\ f 

 broad; drupes globose, or oval, 4 // -5 // in 

 diameter, red, very acid, translucent; stone 

 orbicular, flat, not grooved. 



In low grounds. New Brunswick to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, south to New Jersey, Michi- 

 gan and Oregon. Also in Europe and Asia- 

 Among many English names are Marsh-, 

 Rose-, or Water-elder, White Dogwood, Whit- 

 ten-tree, Dog Rowan-tree, Gaiter-tree or Gat- 



