206 CAPEIFOLIACE^:. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



panicled, convex or pyramidal ; fruit bright red (rarely white). Rocky woods; 

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

 in June. Pith brown. Var. with dissected leaves, Lake Superior, Lewis Foote, 

 Dr. Bobbins. 



7. VIBURNUM, L. ARROW-WOOD. LAURESTINUS. 



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-crustaceous 

 (flattened or tumid) stone. Shrubs, with simple leaves, and white flowers 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 finely serrate or entire, bright green ; veins not prominent : no stipidar ap- 



pendages : whole plant glabrous or with some minute rusty scurf: fruit black or 

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



1. V. LentgO, L. (SWEET VIBURNUM. SHEEP-BERRY.) Leaves ovate, 

 strongly pointed, closely and very sharply serrate ; petioles long and margined ; 

 cyme sessile; fruit oval, ' or more long, ripe in autumn, edible; tree 15 -30 

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



2. V. prunifblium, L. (BLACK HAW.) Leaves oval, obtuse or slightly 

 pointed, finely and sharply serrate, 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. ntldum, L. (WITHE-ROD.) Leaves thickish, oval, oblong or 

 lanceolate, not shining, the margins entire, repand, or crenate ; cyme short-peduncled ; 

 fruit round-ovoid (3" long). Var. 1. CLAYT6NI 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, frc.) has more opaque, often toothed leaves ; and grows in cold 

 swamps from Pennsylvania northward. May, June. Shrub 6 - 10 high. 



4. V. Obov&tum, Walt. Leaves obovate or spatulate, obtuse, entire or denticu- 

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

 oblong. River-banks, Virginia 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. dentatum, 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- and horseshoe-shaped. Wet places, common northward. June. 

 Shrub 5 - 10 high, with ash-colored bark ; the pale leaves often with hairy 

 tufts in the axils of the straight veins. 



6. V. m611e, Michx. Leaves broadly oval., obovate or ovate, scarcely pointed, 

 coarsely crenate or repand-toothed, the lower surface, rather slender petioles, branch- 

 lets and cymes soft-downy, the latter with stellate pubescence ; fruit oily (En- 



