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 



Viburnum alnifblium. Viburnum lantanoides. 



Viburnufn 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 invohite, clothed with dense rusty down ; when full grown 

 are deeply corrugated above ; midvein 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. 



F/owers. — 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 flow^ers 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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