172 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILT. 



6. VIBUBIirirM, ARROW- WOOD, &c. (Ancient Latin name, of un- 

 certain meaning.) Flowers white, or nearly so, in spring or early summer : 

 fruit ripe in autumn. 



§ 1. Flowers all alike, small, and perfect . 

 » CiM. or planted frcm S. Europe, with evergreen smooth entire leaves. 



V. Tinus, Ladkestinus. Not hardy N., but a common house-plant, 

 winter-flowering, or planted out in summer ; leaves oblong ; fruit dark purple. 



« * Wild species, some occasionally planted: leaves deciduous, at least N. 



1- Leaves not lobed nor coarsely tootlied, smooth or with some minute scurf: fruit 

 black or with a bluish bloom. 

 ++ Leaves glossy, finely and evenly serrate with very sharp teeth. 

 V. Lentigo, SiiEEP-BERKT. Tree 15° -30° high, common in nioist 

 grounds, chietly N. ; leaves ovate, conspicuously pointed, on long margined 

 petioles ; cyme'broad, sessile ; fruit oval, ^' or more long, sweet, eatable. 



V. prunifblium, Black Haw. Dry soil, from Conn, to 111. and S. : 

 hardly so tall as the preceding, with smaller and oval mostly blunt leaves. 

 ++ -M- Leaves entire or with a few wavy or crenate small teeth, thickish. 

 V. obovitum. Along streams from Virginia S. . shnib with obovate 

 leaves seldom over 1' long, and small sessile cymes. 



V. ni.clum, Withe-bod. Swamps, from New England to Florida ; with 

 leaves oval, oblong, or almost lanceolate, not glossy ; cyme on a peduncle ; fruit 

 roundish. 



-1- I- Leaves coarsely toothed, strongly feather-veined, the veins prominently marked, 

 slraiylit and simple or nearly so ; fruit small: cyme peduncled. 



V. dentiitum, Arrow-wood (the stems having been used by the Indians 

 to make arrovva). Common in wet soil, 5°- 10° high, smooth, with ash-colored 

 bark, pale and broadly ovate evenly sharp-toothed leaves, on slender petioles, 

 and bright blue fniit. 



V. moUe, Soft A. From Kentucky S., soft-downy, with less sharply 

 toothed oval or obovate leaves, on slender petioles, and blue oily fruit. 



V. putaeseens, Downy A. Rocky grounds, N. & W. ; a low and strag- 

 gling shrub, with ovate or oblong and acute or taper-pointed leaves, having 

 rather few coarse teeth, their lower surface and the very short petioles soft-downy ; 

 fruit dark purple. 



•1- H- -1- Leaves both coarsely toothed and somewhat Slobed, roundish, 3 - 5-ribbed 

 from the hose and veiny : cymes slender-peduncled, small : fruit red. 



V. aeerifdlium, Maple-leaved A. or Dockmackie. Shrub 3° -6° 

 high, in rocky woods, with 3-ribbed and 3-lobed leaves soft-downy beneath, their 

 pointed lobes diverging ; stamens slender. 



V. paueiflbrum. Cold woods, only far ^. or on mountains ; with almost 

 smooth leaves 5-ribbed at base and 3-lobed at summit ; cyme few-flowered ; 

 fruit sour. 



§ 2. Flowers round the margin of the cyme nentrnl (without stamens or pistils) and 

 very much larger than the feitile ones, Hydiangea-like and showy : petioles 

 bearing evident appeiidages which imitate stipul.es : fruit red, sour. 



V. Opulus, Cranberry-tree. Tall and nearly smooth shrub, with gray 

 bark, scaly buds, 3 - 5-ribbed and strongly 3-lobed leaves, the lobes pointed and 

 commonly few-toothed, and cymes peduncled. The wild form in low grounds 

 N. & E. ; the juicy acid fi-uit bright red, used as a substitute for cranberries 

 (whence the name of High Cranberry-eosh). The long-cultivated form 

 from Europe, planted for ornament, under the name of Ghelder Rose or 

 Snowball-tree, has most of the flowers of the cyme changed into enlarged 

 corollas. 



v. lantanoides. Hobble-bush (popular name from the straggling or 

 reclining branches taking root at the end, and forming loops; the botanical 

 name because the leaves resemble the V. LantAna or Wayfaring-tree of 



