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Peduncle usually longer than the rays ; leaves glossy above . 12. V. nudum. 

 e. Cymes sessile ; drupes in ore than 1 cm. long. 



Leaves subtending the inflorescence mostly caudate-acuminate . 13. V. Lentago. 

 Leaves blunt or merely acutish. 



Winter-buds and petioles green and glabrous . . . .14. V. prunifolium . 



Winter-buds and petioles red-tomentose 15. V. rufidulum. 



1. LANTANA Spach. Winter-buds naked ; leaves pinnately veined ; drupes 

 coral-red, turning darker, not acid; stone sulcate. 



1. V. LANTANA L. (WAYFARING TREE.) Shrub or small tree; the buds, 

 young branches, lower surface of the leaves, etc., cinereous with minute stellate 

 pubescence ; leaves cordate-ovate to broad-oblong, closely serrulate ; cymes short- 

 peduncled, about 1-rayed ; the flowers small and all alike. Frequently culti- 

 vated, and occasionally established by roadsides, etc. (In trod, from Eurasia.) 



2. V. alnif61ium Marsh. (HOBBLE-BUSH, WITCH HOBBLE, MOOSEWOOD.) 

 Leaves 1-2 dm. across, round-ovate, abruptly pointed, heart-shaped at the base, 

 closely serrate, the veins and veinlets beneath with the stalks and branchlets 

 very rusty-scurfy (midsummer leaves sometimes narrower, coarsely toothed, 

 thin and glabrous); cymes sessile, commonly 5-rayed, very broad and flat, the 

 marginal flowers neutral, with greatly enlarged flat white (rarely pink) corollas. 

 (V. lantanoides Michx.) Moist woods, N. B. to Ont. and Mich., s. to Pa., 

 and in the rats, to N. C. May, June. A straggling shrub ; the reclining 

 branches often taking root. 



2. 6PULUS [Tourn.] DC. Winter-buds scaly ; leaves palmately veined and 

 lobed; drupe bright red, acid, globose ; stone very flat, orbicular, not sulcate. 



3. V. 6pulus L., var. americanum (Mill.) Ait. (CRANBERRY-TREE, HIGH- 

 BUSH CRANKERRY, PIMBINA.) Nearly smooth, upright, 1-4. m. high ; leaves 3-5- 

 ribbed, strongly 3-lobed, broadly wedge-shaped or truncate at base, the spread- 

 ing lobes pointed, mostly toothed on the sides, entire in the sinuses ; petioles 

 bearing 2 glands at the apex ; cyme broad, the marginal flowers neutral, with 

 greatly enlarged flat corollas,' stamens elongate. {V. americanum Mill.) 

 In woods and along streams, Nfd. and e. Que. to B. C., s. to N. J., Pa., Mich., 

 Wise., and n. e. la. June, July. (E. Asia.) The acid fruit of this and the 

 next is a substitute for cranberries. The well-known SNOW-BALL TREE, or 

 GUELDER ROSE, is a cultivated state of the typical Old World form, with the 

 whole cyme turned into showy sterile flowers. 



4. V. pauciflbrum Raf. (SQUASHBERRY, PIMBINA.) A low straggling shrub ; 

 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, the flowers 

 small and uniform; stamens shorter than the corolla. Cold woods, Nfd. and 

 Lab. to Alaska, s. to the mts. of Cape Breton I., n. N. E., Allegheny Co., Pa. 

 (according to Porter), n. Mich., Minn., Col., and Wash. June, July. 



3. EUVIBtfRNUM Koehne (restricted). Winter-buds scaly; leaves pin- 

 nately veined (except in no. 5), the veins straightish and terminating in 

 coarse teeth ; cymes never radiant, peduncled ; drupes blue to black ; stone 

 usually grooved. 



* Leaves 3-ribbed from the rounded or subcordate base, somewhat 3-lobed. 



5. V. acerifblium L. (DOCKMACKIE, ARROW-WOOD.) Shrub, 1-1.5 m. high; 

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

 stipules bristle-form ; cymes small, slender-peduncled ; stamens exserted ; fruit 

 crimson, turning purple-black ; stone lenticular, hardly sulcate. Rocky woods, 

 N. B. to Minn., Ky., and Ga. May, June. Leaves crimson in autumn. 



* * Leaves cordate or subcordate at base, coarsely toothed, prominently pinnate- 

 veined. 



*- Stone flat; leaves all short-petioled or subsessile. 



6. V. pub^scens (Ait.) Pursh. (DOWNY A.) A low straggling shrub ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, acute or taper-pointed, the veins and teeth fewer and less 



