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with a glaucous mealy bloom, rather large.^-Idaho to ' Washington, • aind 

 possibly in Utah and Wyoming. ' > ■ i ^ ^ ' ,( 



la. Sambucus glauca neo-mexicana (Wooton) A. Nels. Habit of the 

 species but with narrower leaves and a tendency to puberulencei upon foliage 

 and infibrescenoe. (S. neo-mexicana Wooton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 25: 309. 

 1898.) — Mountains of southern Colorado and New Mexico. ■ ■■ 



2. Sambucus canadensis L. Sp. PI. 269. 1753. Plants 1-3 m.high, gla- 

 brous except some fine pvibescence on midrib and veins of leaves beneath: 

 leaflets (5-11) mostly 7, ovate-oval to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the lower 

 not rarely bifid, or with a laterallobe; stipules not uncommon, narrowly linear, 

 aiid tipped with a callous gland: compound cymes depressed, 5-rayed; exter- 

 nal rays once to thrice 5-rayed: fruit dark purple, becoming black, with very 

 Uttle bloom.: — ^From the Rocky Mountains eastward to Canada and Florida., 



3. Sambucus melanocarpa Gray, Prpc. Am. Acad. 1^': 76. 1883. Sliems 

 1-2 m. high; glabrous or the young leaves slightly pubescent: leaflets 5-7, 

 rarely 9: cyme convex, as broad as high; flowers white: fruit black, without 

 bloom. — New Mexico to Montana and westward to the Pacific. 



4. Sambucus microbotrys Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 28: 503. 1901., A 

 low shrub 5-20 dm. high, glabrous throughout and with pale green fdlidge: 

 leaflets Ovate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, acute or short-acuminate, 3-9' cm. 

 long, mostly rounded and obhque at thfi base, coarsely serrate: cyme thyrsoid- 

 paniculate, smEiU, about as long as broad, about 3 cm. in diameter and of the 

 same height; ■Sowers whitish: fniit bright red, 4-5, mm. in 'diameter';"seeds 

 finely punctate-rugose. S. racemOsa. — Throughout our Yahge. '■ ''' '- 



2. VIBURNUM L. 



Shrubs, with simple; leaves and white; flowers in flat compound' cymes. 

 Petioles sometimes bearing httle appendages which are evidently stipules; 

 leaf-buds naked or with a pair of scales. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla spread- 

 ing, deeply, 5-lobed. iStaipens'S. Stjigmas 1-3. Fruit a l-celle^,f,l-see(led 

 drupe, with soft pulp and a thin-crustaceousi (flattened pr t(umid) stone., ,; i 



Leaves puinately veined; fruit blue or black . . . . , 1. V. LentagO. 



Leaves palmately veined; fruit red. 



Cyme with the exterior flowers ray-like 2. V. OpuluSp 



Cyme with no radiant flowers . . ■ .,. • • .3. V. pauoiflomm. 



1. Viburnum Lentago L. Sp. PI. 268. 1753. A shrub or smsiU tree; gla- 

 brous or nearly so throughout: leaves ovate, rounded at the base, acuminate, 

 5-10 cm. long,' sharply serrulate: cyme sessile, geveral-rayed, 6-12, cm. broad: 

 drupes oval, black with a bluish bloom, the stone nearly circular and very 

 flat. — Along streams; across the continent northward. ,, .-• 



2. Viburnum Opulus L. 1. c. A shrub 1-3 m. high, the branches 'smooth 

 and nearly erect: leaves broadly ovate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above 

 and on the veins beneath, 3-ribbed aiid 3-lobed, the lobes acuminate and 

 coarsely dentate; petioles glandular above: cymes 6-10, cn^., broad, with the 

 outer ray-flowers neutral: drupes edible, 8-10 mm. in diameter, red, acid, 

 translucent; ^he stone flat, orbicular. High Bush Cranberry. The Euro- 

 pean cultivated- form with nearly all the flowers neutral is. the ; pommon 

 SNOWBALL.r^oming into the northeastern part of our range, 



3. Viburnum pauciflorum Pylaie, T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2; 17.,, 1841., /Glabrous 

 or pubescent, 18-15 dm. high, straggUng: leaves roundish. or bro^jjly o;val, 

 unequally dentate, , many of , them either, obsoletely or distinctly Slobed, 

 about 5-nerved at base: cymes small, terminating short ;and, jmerely 2-leaved 

 lateral branches, involucrate with slender, sijbulate, cadiicous bracts, destitute 

 of neutral jadiant flowers: fruit much as in the preceding.-^Mountains of 

 Colorado, northward and eastward in cold or mountainous regions. , t 



3. LINNAEA Gronov. TwinFloweb 



A slender creeping and trailing little evergreen, somewhat hairy, with 

 rounded-oval sparingly crenate leaves contracted at the base into short pet- 



