Honeysuckle (Caprifoliacece) 133 



shape, more or less downy beneath, very downy when 

 young. 



Leaf -stem, downy beneath when young, often purple above. 

 Pith, brown. 



Fruit, bright red (or rarely white) with a yellowish, 

 unpleasant-tasting pulp. June. 



Found, from Georgia northward and westward. 

 A shrub two to eighteen feet high. 



(2) Genus VIBURNUM, L. (Arrow-wood, etc.) 



Flowers, white, in flat, compound clusters. Corolla, spreading, and 

 deeply five-lobed. Calyx, five-toothed, the lobes blunt. Stamens, 

 five. Stigmas, one to three. Seed-cases, one- to three-celled. 



Leaves, simple, opposite, toothed (excepting in species No. 8, Withe- 

 rod), lobed in No. 2, Cranberry Tree ; No. 3, Few-Flowered Vi- 

 burnum ; and No. 4, Dockmackie. 



Fruit, soft, pulpy, one-celled, one-seeded. A one-seeded drupe. 



GUIDE TO THE SPECIES. 



(a) Flower-clusters with the outer blossoms imperfect (destitute of stamens and 

 pistils). 



(b] Leaves not lobed (r) Hobble-Bush. 



(b) leaves three-lobed (2) Cranberry Tree, 



(a) Flower-clusters with the blossoms perfect 



( (3) Few-Flowered Viburnum ; 



1 (4) Dockmackie. 

 (l>) Leaves not lobed. 



(c) Edge coarsely toothed, clusters J v< ^ 1 T y~ W ' 



stalked ( (71 Downy Viburnum. 



tJlVA ,- , j (8) Withe-rod ( V. nuduni) ; 



(c) Edge entire or nearly so j y Withe-rod (V. cassinoides). 



(c) Edge fine-toothed, clusters sessile (10) Black Haw. 



