HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



The members of the family are conspicuous for 

 their fine autumnal tints. These are bronze and pur- 

 ple, brightening into red or orange. 



HOBBLE-BUSH. AMERICAN WAYFARING-TREE 

 Vib&rnum alnifblium. Viburnum lantanoides. 



Viburnum is an ancient name of unknown meaning. Hob- 

 ble-bush refers to the prostrate branches which often trip 

 the unwary. 



A low, irregular shrub with long, flexible, often procumbent, 

 branches and large leaves ; found in cold, moist woods. Ranges 

 from New Brunswick to North Carolina, west to Michigan. 



Stems. Bark purplish ; branches often long and prostrate ; 

 branchlets densely covered with rusty, stellate pubescence. 

 Branches often take root at the tips. 



Leaves. -Opposite, simple, pinnately veined, orbicular or 

 broadly ovate, three to eight inches across, heart-shaped at base, 

 finely serrate, abruptly pointed at apex. They come out of the 

 bud involute, clothed with dense rusty down ; when full grown 

 are deeply corrugated above ; mid vein and primary veins scurfy 

 with rusty stellate pubescence. Autumnal tints are brilliant red 

 and orange. Petioles an inch to an inch and a half long, scurfy 

 with rusty down, often showing small stipular appendages, but 

 no real stipules. 



Flowers. May, June. Of two kinds, perfect and neutral. 

 White, borne in broad, compound, sessile, radiant cymes, three 

 to five inches across ; the outer and imperfect flowers more or 

 less numerous, raised on longer pedicels and destitute of stamens 

 and pistils. They are circular disks, one-half to five-eighths of an 

 inch across, having five, large, unequal, rounded lobes ; the in- 

 ner flowers are small and perfect. Pedicels downy. 



Calyx. Tube adnate to the ovary ; border five-toothed. 



Corolla. White ; of the perfect flowers, rotate, five-lobed ; 

 lobes spreading; neutral rotate, lobes much enlarged. 



Stamens. Five, inserted on the corolla-tube; anthers ex- 

 serted. 



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