210 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



V. nfcdum, Linn. Much like the last, but leaves more veiny and 

 shining above, less scurfy, the peduncle generally as lone as the cvme 

 flowers later. N. J., S. 



= = Cpme sessile, small. 



V. obovatum, Walt. In swamps, Va. and S., growing 8 high ; leaves 

 small, obovate, or spatulate, obtuse, entire or denticulate and thickish. 



1- *- Leaves coarsely toothed, strongly feather-veined ; the veins promi- 

 nently marked, straight and simple, or nearly so; fruit small; cyme 



M- Leaves slender-petioled ; stone sulcate. 



V. dentatum, Linn. ARROWWOOD (the stems having been used by 

 the Indians to make arrows). Common in wet soil ; 5-10 high ; smooth, 

 with ash-colored bark, pale and broadly ovate, evenly sharp-toothed 

 leaves on slender petioles, and bright blue fruit. 



V. m6lle, Michx. Soft-downy, with less sharply toothed oval or 

 obovate leaves, and blue oily fruit. N. Eng. to Tex. 



-* t-t- Leaves nearly sessile; stone flat. 



V. pub^scens, Pursh. A low and straggling shrub, with ovate or 

 oblong and acute or taper-pointed leaves, having rather few coarse 

 teeth, their lower surface and the very short petioles soft-downy ; fruit 

 dark purple. Canada to Ga. and W. 



-i- -*- <- Leaves both coarsely toothed and somewhat 3-lobed, roundish, 3- 

 5-ribbedfrom the base and veiny ; cymes slender-peduncled, small 



V. aceriffclium, Linn. MAPLE-LEAVED A. or DOCKMACKIE. Shrub 

 3-6 high, in rocky woods, with 3- ribbed and 3-lobed leaves soft-downy 

 beneath, their pointed lobes diverging ; stamens slender ; fruit black. 



V. paucifldrum, Pylaie. Almost smooth leaves 5-ribbed at base and 

 3-lobed at summit ; cyme few-flowered ; stamens shorter than corolla ; 

 fruit sour, red. Cold woods, far N. 



* * Flowers round the margin of the cyme neutral (without stamens 

 or pistils') and very much larger than the fertile ones, Hydrangea-like 

 and showy (in cultivation, all becoming neutral) ; petioles bearing evi- 

 dent appendages which imitate stipules. 



*- Leaves 3-lobed. 



V. Opulus, Linn. CRANBERRY TREE. Tall and nearly smooth shrub, 

 with gray bark, scaly buds, 3-5-ribbed leaves, the lobes pointed and com- 

 monly few-toothed ; cymes peduncled. The wild form in low grounds N. 

 and E. ; the juicy acid fruit bright red, used as a substitute for cran- 

 berries (whence the name of HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY). The cultivated 

 form from Eu., planted for ornament, under the name of GUELDER-ROSE 

 or SNOWBALL TREE, has all the flowers changed into enlarged corollas. 



-- -*- Leaves not lobed. 



V. lantanoldes, Michx. HOBBLEBUSH (popular name from the 

 straggling or reclining branches taking root at the end, and forming 

 loops). Cold moist woods N., with naked buds ; large round-ovate leaves, 

 heart-shaped at base and abruptly pointed at the apex, closely serrate, 

 and pinnately many-veined ; the veins and netted veinlets prominent under- 

 neath and covered, like the stalks and branchlets, with rusty scurf ; cymes 

 showy, very broad, sessile ; fruit not edible, coral-red turning crimson. 



V. tomentosum, Thunb. (V. PLICATUM). JAPANESE SNOWBALL. Shrub 

 of medium size, with broad-ovate or obovate, plicate, shallow-toothed 

 leaves ; axillary dense heads of sterile flowers whiter and more delicate 

 than those of the Common Snowball. China and Japan. 



