THE HONEYSUCKLK FAMILV 



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here mentioned, the hobble-bush is the only one that uses tncm as a means 

 of attracting desired insects. The shrub is undoubtedly the handsomest of 

 the genus as represented in our range, and grows through ilic IJig Smokies 

 to a height of quite fifteen feet. In the autumn its foliage turns to beautiful 

 shades of wine-colour. It is, it would seem, to be regretted that it is .so 

 difficult of cultivation. 



V. acerifblium, maple-leaved arrow-wood, dockmakie. while having no 

 showy neutral flowers like those of the i)receding species, makes quite a gay 

 flutter of bloom with its many small, perfect flowers, growing as they do in 

 longpeduncled cymes. Its leaves also are graceful, being palmaiely veined. 

 almost orbicular, and lobed in a way resembling maple leaves. The drut)e.s 

 are nearly black. From North Carolina it grows northward and westward 

 and usually is found in open, rocky woods. 



V. dciitatiim, arrow-wood, altogether one of the most pleasing of the 

 genus, has pinnately-veined leaves, broadly-oval or ovate, which all 

 around are coarsely-dentate. Its abundant cymes of perfect flowers ter- 

 minate long peduncles, and the drupes they later develop are blue, or nearly 

 black. As it occurs southward the shrub keeps well in the mountains' 

 shade. 



V. primifbliiun, black haw, or stag-bush, rather a constant and pretty 

 bloomer from April until June, is found in dry soil and througli a range ex- 

 tending from Florida and Texas to Connecticut. It is a small tree some- 

 times, and may be recognised by its finely serrulate, ovate or broadly oval 

 leaves, which are smooth and taper into petioles very slightly winged. The 

 bluish-black drupes are covered with a bloom, and are agreeably sweet and 

 good to eat. In the autumn the foliage turns to orange and purple. 



V. riifotomeiitbsiDn, southern black haw, opens in early April its pretty 

 flowers which grow in compound cymes, and, noticeable on their short, 

 grooved pedicels, is a reddish scurf. Very slight this is in comparison, how- 

 ever, with the dense, deep, red velvety tomentum which covers the leaf, 

 stalks, and buds and extends along the veins on the under sides of the 

 leaves. Besides the elliptical or obovate leaves there are many also which 

 in outline are bbcordate. All are finely serrate, thick and glossy. Usually 

 we find this species of \'iburnum growing as a small tree to about twenty 

 feet high. 



V. obcnuitum, small viburnum, occurs in swamps or along river-banks from 

 Florida to Virginia and is a shrub of fioni two to eight feet high. Even 

 in March it sends forth its abundantly flowered, sessile cymes growing 

 from lateral and terminal leafy shoots. The leaves, like the flowers, are 

 small, and are moreover obovate, or oblanceolatc, ami at maturity quite 

 smooth. The drupes are oval and black. 



