DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 47 



* Flowers round the margin of the cyme without stamens or pistils, 

 large and showy. 



a. (V. LANTANOIDES), HOBBLE-BUSH, WlTCH-HOBBLE. A shrub 



about 5 ft. high, with the branches reclining and often rooting and 

 forming loops (whence the popular names). Leaves very large, 

 roundish, abruptly taper-pointed, serrate, with a rusty down on the 

 petioles and veinlets ; cymes very broad and showy ; fruit red, not 

 eatable. 



b. (V. Opulus), Cranberry Tree, High Bush Cranberry. A 

 handsome, upi-ight shrub ; leaves 3-5-ribbed and 3-lobed ; fruit 

 bright red, juicy, very acid, and used as a substitute for cranberries. 



** Flowers all small and perfect. 



c. (V. dentatum), Arrowwood. (Name given from the fact 

 that the straight stems were used by the Indians for arrows.) A 

 shrub 5-10 ft. high; leaves pale, roundish ovate, very sharply 

 toothed and strongly veined, often with tufts of hairs in the axils of 

 the veins ; fruit bright blue. 



d. (V. pkunifolium). Black Haw. Leaves smooth, shining 

 above, oval or obovate, serrate with fine, sharp teeth, obtuse or 

 nearly so, petioles hardly margined ; fruit oval, somewhat flattened, 

 sweet and insipid, but eatable. 



III. LONICERA, HONEYSUCKLE. 



Calyx 5-toothed, with a short tube. Corolla tubular, 

 funnel-shaped or broader, 6-lobed, with the lobes somewhat 

 unequal. Stamens 5, projecting from the corolla-tube. 

 Ovary 2-3-eelled, ripening into a several-seeded berry. 

 Shrubs, often twining, with entire leaves, and usually showy 

 flowers. 



* Stems tunning. 



a. (L. SEMPERViRENS), Trumpet HONEYSUCKLE. Leftves ob- 

 long, pale beneath, rather thick, evergreen (at the South) ; flowers 

 not fi-agrant, whorled in short spikes ; corollartube long and narrow, 

 limb 5-lobed, nearly regular, usually scarlet outside and yellowish 

 inside; berries red. A native shrub, often cultivated, climbing 

 about 15 ft. high. 



h. (L. Caprifolium), European Honeysuckle. Leaves 

 smooth and deciduous, several of the upper pairs united at their 

 bases to form a flattish disk or somewhat cup-shaped leaf ; flowers in 



