HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



leaves and fewer flowers, all of which are perfect. 

 The fruit is smaller and paler red. Its range is north- 

 ern, reaching its southern limit in the mountains of 

 Pennsylvania. 



MAPLE-LEAVED VIBURNUM. ARROW-WOOD 



Vibiir?iu?n acerifblium. 



A small bush, three to six feet high, found on sandy or rocky 

 hillsides at the margin of woods ; will grow in exposed positions. 

 Ranges from New Brunswick to North Carolina and west to 

 Michigan and Minnesota. 



Stems. — Stems smooth, straight and slender ; growing shoots 

 and petioles somewhat pubescent. 



Leaves. — Opposite, simple, palmately-veined, three-lobed, three 

 to five inches long, orbicular or broad-oval, rounded or heart- 

 shaped at base, coarsely and unequally toothed ; lobes diverg- 

 ing, acuminate at apex. They come out of the bud involute, 

 reddish, densely hairy ; when full grown are dark green, downy 

 above, paler and downy below. Autumnal tints are deep dull 

 red varying to rose pink, sometimes fading to cream-white, 

 very beautiful. Petioles an inch to an inch and a half long, 

 downy, furnished near the base with two stipule-like appendages. 



Flowers. — June. Perfect, cream-white, borne in loose termi- 

 nal pedunculate cymes, two to three inches across. 



Calyx. — Tube adnate to the ovary, five-toothed, teeth obtuse. 



Corolla. — White, rotate, about three-sixteenths of an inch 

 across. 



Stamens. — Five, inserted on corolla-tube, filaments white, 

 anthers yellow, oblong, exserted. 



Pistil. — Ovary inferior, one to three-celled ; style short, three- 

 lobed. 



Fruit. — Drupe, deep purple, about one-fourth of an inch long, 

 clings to the branches throughout the winter ; pulp thin. Stone 

 lenticular, faintly two-ridged on one side and two-grooved on 

 the other. September. 



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