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hairs above, stellately and softly pubescent undcrneatli ; the petioles 1-1^ inch long. Peduncle 

 about two inches long. Cyme rather loose. Calyx-teeth obtuse. Anthers deep rose-color. 

 Drupes nearly black when ripe, 3-4 lines long ; the pulp thin : nucleus with two obtuse 

 ridges on one side, and two corresponding shallow grooves on the other. 



Dry open woods ; very common. Fl. June. Fr. September. In the western part of the 

 State, this species is sometimes known by the name of Dogmackie. 



7. Viburnum pauciflorum, Pylaie. Mountain Bush- Cranberry. 



Branches and petioles smooth, or nearly so ; leaves roundish, seldom subcordate, slightly 

 3-lobed or incised at the summit, mostly 5-nerved from the base, unequally toothed-serrate, 

 sparingly pubescent on the veins underneath ; petioles destitute of glands and stipuliform 

 appendages; cymes small and simple, pedunculate, terminating the very short lateral branches; 

 filaments much shorter than the corolla. — Torr. <J- Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 17. V. Oxycoccus, 

 var. eradiatum, Oakes in Hovey^s liort. mag. May, 1841. 



A shrub 2-4 feel high. Leaves 1^ - 2^ inches in diameter, a little woolly in the axils of 

 the veins, sometimes scarcely at all lobed. Cymes about an inch in diameter. Anthers on 

 very short filaments, not exserted beyond the tube of the corolla. Fruit (rather immature) 

 roundish-ovoid, compressed, red : nucleus much compressed. 



Mountains of Essex county. Fl. July 1st {Dr. Knieskern). Fr. (immature) August. 

 Mr. Oakes is confident that this plant is only an alpine form of V. Oxycoccus ( Opulus) ; and 

 it is certainly more nearly allied to that species than to V. acerifolium. It seems, however, 

 to be constant in its characters. 



^ 2. Opulus, Tourn. Exterior fiowers of the corymb much larger than the others, and neutral; their 



pedicels elongated. 



8. Viburnum Opulus, Linn. Bush Cranberry, or High Cranberry. 



Nearly smooth ; leaves 3-lobed, 3-ribbed from the base, the lobes acutely toothed ; petioles 

 glandular above, and often with stipule-like appendages at the base ; cymes pedunculate ; 

 fruit ovoid-globose, red. — Linn. sp. 1. p. 2C8 ; Engl. hot. t. 322 ; Torr. ^ Gr. Jl. N. Am. 

 2. p. 18. 



var. Americana : leaves remotely and rather obtusely toothed. Ait. Keto. (ed. 1.) \. p. 373; 

 Torr. ^ Gr. I. c. V. trilobum. Marsh, arbust. p. 162. V. Opulus, /3. Pimina, and y. edule, 

 Miclix. fl.\. p. 180. V. opuloides, Muhl. cat. p. 32. V. Oxycoccus and edule, Pursh, fl. 

 1. p. 203 ; Torr.fl. l.p. 320 ; DC.prodr. 4. p. 328 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 281 ; Beck, 

 hot. p. 157 ; Audubon, birds of Amcr. t. 148. 



A shrub 3-10 feet high, with smooth gray spreading branches. Leaves 3-5 inches in 

 diameter , the lobes often somewhat falcate, nearly smooth above, sparsely hairy underneath : 

 petiole about an inch long, with 4-6 glands on the upper part : stipular appendages one or 



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