210 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



V. nudum, Linn. Much like the last, but leaves more veiny and 

 shining above, less scurfy, the peduncle generally as long as the cyme ; 

 flowers later. N. J., S. 



= = Cyme sessile, small. 



V. obovatum, Walt. In swamps, Va. and S., growing 8° high; leaves 

 small, obovate, or spatulate, obtuse, entire or denticulate and thickish. 



1- +- Leaves coarsely toothed, strongly feather-veined ; the veins promi- 

 nently marked, straight and simple, or nearly so; fruit small; cyme 

 peaunciea. ^ j^ eaves slender-petioled ; stone sulcate. 



V. dentatum, Linn. Arrowwood (the stems having been used by 

 the Indians to make arrows). 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 fruit. 



V. m6lle, Michx. Soft-downy, with less sharply toothed oval or 

 obovate leaves, and blue oily fruit. N. Eng. to Tex. 



++ ++ Leaves nearly sessile ; stone flat. 



V. pube"scens, Pursh. A low and straggling 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. Canada to Ga. and W. 



•f- *- -H- Leaves both coarsely toothed and somewhat S-lobed, roundish, 3- 

 b-ribbed from the base and veiny; cymes slender-peduncled, small. 



V. acerifdlium, Linn. 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 ; fruit black. 



V. paucifldrum, Pylaie. Almost smooth leaves 5-ribbed at base and 

 3-lobed at summit ; cyme few-flowered ; stamens shorter than corolla ; 

 fruit sour, red. Cold woods, far N. 



* * Flowers round the margin of the cyme neutral (without stamens 

 or pistils) and very much larger than the fertile ones, Hydrangea-like 

 and showy (in cultivation, all becoming neutral) ; petioles bearing evi- 

 dent appendages which imitate stipules. 



h- Leaves 3-lobed. 



V. Opulus, Linn. Cranberry Tree. Tall and nearly smooth shrub, 

 with gray bark, scaly buds, 3-5-ribbed leaves, the lobes pointed and com- 

 monly few-toothed ; cymes peduncled. The wild form in low grounds N. 

 and E. ; the juicy acid fruit bright red, used as a substitute for cran- 

 berries (whence the name of High Bush Cranberry). The cultivated 

 form from Eu., planted for ornament, under the name of Guelder-rose 

 or Snowball Tree, has all the flowers changed into enlarged corollas. 



+- +- Leaves not lobed. 



V. lantanoldes, Michx. Hobblebush (popular name from the 

 straggling or reclining branches taking root at the end, and forming 

 loops). Cold moist woods N., with naked buds ; large round-ovate leaves, 

 heart-shaped at base and abruptly pointed at the apex, closely serrate, 

 and pinnately many- veined ; the veins and netted veinlets prominent under- 

 neath and covered, like the stalks andbranchlets, with rusty scurf ; cymes 

 showy, very broad, sessile ; fruit not edible, coral-red turning crimson. 



If. tomentdsum, Thunb. (V. plicAtum). Japanese Snowball. Shrub 

 of medium size, with broad-ovate or obovate, plicate, shallow-toothed 

 leaves ; axillary dense heads of sterile flowers whiter and more delicate 

 than those of the Common Snowball. China and Japan. 



