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gelm.}, the stone as in No. 5, but less deeply excavated on the face. (V. denta- 

 tum, var. scabrellum, Torr. Sf Gr.) Rich woods, Kentucky and southward. 



7. V. pubdscens, Pursh. (DOWNY A.) Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 acute or taper-pointed, the veins and teeth fewer and less conspicuous than in 

 No. 5, the lower surface and very short petioles soft-downy, at least when young ; 

 fruit dark-purple ; the stone plano-convex and 3 - 4-grooved on the flat face. 

 Rocks, &c., W. Vermont to New Jersey, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and northward. 

 June. A low, straggling shrub. 



* # # Leaves coarsely toothed and somewhat 3-lobed, roundish, the base mostly 



truncate or somewhat heart-shaped, 3 - 5-ribbed from the base, the ribs and veins 

 prominent beneath: stipular appendages bristle-shaped: cymes small, slender- 

 peduncled: fruit red; the stone flattened. 



8. V. acerifdlium, L. (MAPLE-LEAVED A. DOCKMACKIE.) Leaves 

 soft-downy beneath, 3-ribbed, the pointed lobes diverging, unequally toothed; 

 stamens exserted ; fruit crimson turning purple ; the lenticular stone undulately 

 2-grooved on one face and 3-grooved on the other. Rocky woods : common. 

 May, June. Shrub 3 - 6 high. 



9. V. pauciflbrum, Pylaie. Leaves glabrous or loosely pubescent beneath, 

 5-ribbed at base, unequally serrate nearly all round, with 3 short lobes at the 

 summit ; cyme few-flowered ; stamens shorter than the corolla ; fruit red, sour, glob- 

 ular ; the stone very flat and even. (V. Oxycdccus, var! eradiatum, Oakes.) 

 Cold woods, Northern N. Hampshire, New York, Wisconsin, and northward. 

 A low straggling shrub, most related to the next ; the leaf-buds similar. 



2. Marginal flowers of the, cyme destitute of stamens and pistils, and with corollas 

 many times larger than the others, forming a kind of ray, as in Hydrangea : 

 stipular appendages conspicuous on the petiole. 



* Fruit spherical, pleasantly acid, bright red ; the stone very flat, smooth and even, 



nearly orbicular : leaf-buds enclosed in one or two pairs of scales. 



10. V. Opulus, L. (CRANBERRY-TREE.) Nearly smooth, upright (5- 

 10 high) ; leaves 3 -5-ribbed, strongly 3-lobed, broadly wedge-shaped or trun- 

 cate at the base, the spreading lobes pointed, mostly toothed on the sides, entire 

 in the sinuses ; petioles bearing 2 glands at the apex, cymes peduncled. (V. 

 Oxycdccus and V. edule, Pursh. ) Low grounds, along streams : common 

 northward, and southward in the Alleghanies to the borders of Maryland. 

 June, July. The acid fruit is a substitute for cranberries, whence the name 

 High Cranberry-bush, &c. The well-known SNOW-BALL TREE, or GUELDER- 

 ROSE, is a cultivated state, with the whole cyme turned into showy sterile 

 flowers. (Eu.) 



* * Fruit ovoid, red, turning darker ; the stone tumid, 6-grooved : buds wholly naked. 



11. V. lantanoides, Michx. (HOBBLE-BUSH. AMERICAN WAYFAR- 

 ING-TREE.) Leaves round-ovate, abruptly pointed, heart-shaped at the base, 

 closely serrate, pinnately many-veined ; the veins and veinlets underneath along 

 with the stalks and branchlets very rusty-scurfy ; cymes sessile, very broad and 

 flat. Cold moist woods, New England to Penn. and northward, and southward 

 in the Alleghanies. May. A straggling shrub ; the reclining branches often 

 taking root. Flowers handsome. Leaves 4' - 8' across. 



