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4. VIBURNUM. 



Calyx 5-toothed; corolla 5-lobed,. regular; stamens 5, inserted 

 on the tube of the corolla; ovary 1-3-oelled; style short, 3-lobed; 

 fruit a someyhat flattened 1-seeded drupe. Erect shrubs with 

 simple leaves and usually white or greenish-white flowers in flat 

 compound cymes. 



1. V. Opulus, L., var. americana, (Mill.) Ait. High Bush Cranberry. 



Erect, 3-12 ft. high, 

 smooth or nearly so; 

 leaves 3-lobed, the lobes 

 often toothed on the 

 sides; cymes broad, the 

 outside flowers neutral, 

 with much enlarged co- 

 rollas, pure white, the 

 inner flowers perfect, 

 greenish-white, with ex- 

 serted stamens; fruit red, 

 edible. Woods and thick- 

 ets, Man. and Sask. 



2. V. Lentago, L. 

 Nanny Bebbt. 



A taU shrub, or some- ^'°- 74. - Vibernum opulus. 



times a small tree 25 ft. 



high; leaves ovate, very closely and sharply serrate, on winged petioles; 

 flowers greenish-white in a broad sessile cyme; fruit black. Woods, par- 

 ticularly river banks, Man. and westward. 



3. V. paucifldrum, Raf. Squashberry. 



A straggling shrub 2-5 ft. high; leaves 3-lobed towards the apex, serrate, 

 glabrous above, somewhat pubescent beneath; flowers white, all alike, in a 

 few-flowered cyme; stamens included. Cold woods and mountain valleys, 

 N. Sask., Alta., and northward. 



5. SAMBUCUS. Elder. 



Calyx 3-5-toothed, the teeth very small or obsolete; corolla 

 5-cleft, broadly spreading; stamens 5, alternate with the lobes of the 

 ooroUa and inserted on its tube ; stigmas 3; fruit a berry-hke drupe. 

 Shrubs with pinnately compound leaves and numerous small flowers 

 in a oompoUnd cyme. 



