206 CAPRIFOLIACE^E. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



panicled, convex or pyramidal ; fruit bright red (rarely white). — Rocky woods; 

 chiefly northward, and southward in the mountains. May : the fruit ripening 

 in June. — Pith brown. — Var. with dissected leaves, Lake Superior, Lewis Foote, 

 Dr. Robbins. 



7. VIBURNUM, L. Arrow-wood. Laurestinus. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla spreading, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Stigmas 

 1-3. Fruit a 1 -celled, 1 -seeded drupe, with soft pulp and a thin-erustaceous 

 (flattened or tumid) stone. — Shrubs, with simple leaves, and white flowers in 

 flat compound cymes. Petioles sometimes bearing little appendages which are 

 evidently stipules. Leaf-buds naked, or with a pair of scales. (The classical 

 Latin name, of unknown meaning.) _ 



§ 1 . Flowers all alike and perfect. 



* Leaves finely serrate or entire, bright green ; veins not prominent : no stipular ap- 



pendages : whole plant glabrous or with some minute rusty scurf: fruit black or 

 with a blue bloom, sweet ; the stone very flat and even, broadly oval or orbicular. 



1. V. Lentigo, L. (Sweet Viburnum. Sheep-berry.) Leaves ovate, 

 strongly pointed, closely and very sharply serrate ; petioles long and margined ; 

 cyme sessile; fruit oval, ^' or more long, ripe in autumn, edible; tree 15° -30° 

 high. — Copses, &c. : common, especially northward. May, June. 



2. V. prunifblium, L. (Black Haw.) Leaves oval, obtuse or slightly 

 pointed, finely and sharply serrate, smaller than in the preceding (l'-2' long) ; 

 fruit similar or rather smaller ; cyme sessile. — Dry copses ; Connecticut to Illi- 

 nois, and common southward. May. — A tall shrub or small tree. 



3. V. nudum, L. (Withe-rod.) Leaves thickish, oval, oblong or 

 lanceolate, not shining, the margins entire, repand, or crenale; cyme short-pedunclcd ; 

 fruit round-ovoid (3" long). — Var. 1. Clatt6ni has the leaves nearly entire, 

 the veins somewhat prominent underneath, and grows in swamps from Massa- 

 chusetts, near the coast, to Virginia and southward. Var. 2. cassinoides (V. 

 pyrif blium, Pursk, $c. ) has more opaque, often toothed leaves ; and grows in cold 

 swamps from Pennsylvania northward. May, June. — Shrub 6°- 10° high. 



4. V. oboVcltum, Walt. Leaves obovate or spatulate, obtuse, entire or denticu- 

 late, thickish, small (1'- 1^' long), shining; cymes sessile, small; fruit ovoid- 

 oblong. — River-banks, Virginia and southward. May. — Shrub 2° - 8° high. 



* * Leaves ( with base inclined to heart-shaped) coarsely toothed, prominently pinnately 



veined, the veins straight and simple or sparingly forked : no rusty scurf: fruit 

 small, ovoid, blue or purple; the stone tumid and grooved: cymes peduncled. 



5. V. dentatum, L. (Arrow-wood.) Smooth; leaves broadly ovate, 

 very numerously sharp-toothed and strongly veined, on slender petioles ; fruit bright 

 blue; the turgid stone deeply excavated on one face; cross section of the se?d 

 between kidney- and horseshoe-shaped. — Wet places, common northward. June. 

 — Shrub 5° - 10° high, with ash-colored bark ; the pale leaves often with hairy 

 tufts in the axils of the straight veins. 



6. V. molle, Michx. Leaves broadly oval, obovate or ovate, scarcely pointed, 

 coarsely crenale or repand-toothed, the lower surface, rather slender petioles, branch- 

 lets and cymes soft-downy, the latter with stellate pubescence; fruit oily (En- 



