172 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILT. 



6. VIBUENUM, •ARROW-"W:OOD, &c. (Ancient Latiii name, of un- 

 certain meaning.) Mowers white, or nearly so, in spring or early sunmier : 

 fruit ripe in autumn. 



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

 * Cult, or planted from S. Europe, with evergreen smooth entire leaves. 



V. Tlnus, Ladrestinus. 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 toothed, smooth or with some minute scurf: fruit 

 black or with a bluish bloom. 

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

 V. Iient&gO, Sheep-bekrt. Tree 15° -30° high, common' in motst 

 grounds, chiefly 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. 

 •*-+ +-t- Leaves entire or with a few wavy or crenate small teeth, Ihickish. 



v. obOT&tum. Along streams from Virginia S. : shrub with obovate 

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



V. ntldum, Withe-eod. Swamps, ftora New England to Florida ; with 

 leaves oval, oblong, or almost ladceolate, tiot glossy ; oymo on a peduncle j fruit 

 roundish. I 



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

 straight ana simple or nearly so ; fruit small: cyme peduncled, 



V. deut&tum, Akeow-wood (the stems having been used by the Indians 

 to make arrows), Common in wet soil, 6°-lQ° high, smo<jth, with ash-colored 

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

 and bright blue fruit. 



V. m611e, Sori A. From Kentucky S., soft-downy, with less sharply- 

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



V. pub^scens, Downy A. Rocky grounds, N. & W. ; alow and. strag- 

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

 rather few coai-se teeth, their lower surface and the very short petioles softdowny ; 

 "fruit dark purple. 



■*-■*- -^r- Leaves both coarsdy toothed and somewhat 3-Med, roundish, 3 - 5'ribbed 

 from the base and veiny : cymes slender-peduncted, small : fruit red. 



v. acerif611um, Maple-leaved A. or Dockmackie. Shrub 30-6° 

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

 pointed lobes diverging ; stamens slender. 



V. paucifldrum. Cold woods, only far N. or on mountains ; with almost 

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

 fmit sour. 



§ 2. Flowers round the margin of the ci/me neutral {without stamens or pistils) and 

 very much larger than the fertile ones. Hydrangea-like and showy : petioles 

 bearing evident appendages which imitate stipules : fruit red, sour. 



V. Opulus, Okanbeiirt-tkee. 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 groimds 

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

 (whence the name of High Ckanbekry-bush). The long-cultivated form 

 from Europe, planted for ornament, under the name of Gujelder Rose pr 

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

 corollas. ■> s, -s 



V. lantanoldes, Hobble-btish (popular name from the straggling or 

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

 name because the leaveb rfesomble ihe V. LantXna 6x 'Wayfaring-tree of 



