10 CAPEIFOLIACE^E. Viburnum. 



slightly silicate : seed reniform in cross section and somewhat lobed ; the albumen not rumi- 

 nated.— Fl. i. 179 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 18 ; Audubon, Birds Amer. i. t. 148. V. uinifolium, 

 Marsh. Arbust. 162. V. Lantana, var. grandiflorum, Ait. Kew. i. 372. V. ffrandifolium, 

 Smith in Uees Cycl. — Moist woods, New Brunswick and Canada to N. Carolina in the 

 higher mountains; fl. spring. (Japan?) 

 § 2. Cyme radiant, or not so: drupes light red, acid, ■ edible, globose: putamen 



very flat, orbicular, even (not sulcate nor intruded or costate) : leaves palmately 



veined : winter-buds scaly. — Opulus, Tourn. 

 ■*V. Opulus, L. (High Craseerry, Cr.in'berrt-Tree.) Nearly glabrous, occasionally 

 pubescent, 4 to 10 feet high : leases dilated, three-lobed, roundish or broadly cuueate at 

 3-ribbed or pedately 5-ribbed base ; the lobes acuminate, incisely dentate or in upper leaves 

 entire : slender petioles bearing 2 or more glands at or near summit, and usually setaceous 

 stipules near base : cymes rather ample, terminating several-leaved branches, radiant. — 

 Spec. i. 268; Ait. Kew. i. 373 (var. Americaniun) ; Michx. Fl. i. 180 (vars.); Torr. & Gray, 

 1. c. r. trilohum, Marsh. Arbust. 162. V. opiiluidis, Muhl. Cat. 1' Oxycoccus & V. edule, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 203. — Swamps and along streams, New Brunswick to Saskatchewan, Brit. 

 Columbia and < )regon, ami in Atlantic States south to Pennsylvania. Vi^riable in foliage ; 

 no constant difference from the European, which is cultivated, in a form with most flowers 

 neutral, as Snowball and Gueldek Rose. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



V. pauciflorum, Pvlaie. Glabrous or with pubescence, 2 to 5 feet high, straggling: 

 leaves of roundish or broadly oval outline, unequally dentate, many of them either obso- 

 letely or distinctly 3-lobed (the lobes not longer than broad), about 5-nerved at base, loosely 

 veiny : cymes small, terminating short and merely 2-leaved lateral branches, iiivolucrate 

 witli slender subulate caducous bracts, destitute of neutral radiant flowers : stamens very 

 sliurt : fruit nearly of preceding. — Pylaie, Herb.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 17; Herder, PI. 

 Eadd. iii. t. 1, f. 3. V. acerifoUum, Bong. Veg. Sitka, 144. — Cold moist woods, Newfound- 

 land and Labrador, mountains of New England to Saskatchew^an, west to Alaska and 

 Washington Terr,, southward in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. 



§ 3. Cyme never radiant : drupes blue, or dark-purple or black at maturity. 



* Leaves palmately 3-5-rlbbed or nerved from the base, slender-petiola'.e: stipules subulate-seta- 

 ceous: pubescence simple, no scurf: primary rays of pedunculate C3'me 5 to 7: filaments equal- 

 ling the corolla. 



+- Pacific species: drupe oblong-oval, nearly half-inch long, bluish-black. 

 ■ V. ellipticum, Hook. Stems 2 to .5 feet high : winter-buds scaly : leaves from orbicular- 

 oval to elliptical-oblong, rounded at both ends, dentate above the middle, not lobed, at 

 length rather coriaceous, 3-5-nerved from the base, the nerves ascending or parallel : corol- 

 las 4 or 5 lines in diameter : stone of fruit deeply and broadly sulcate on both faces ; the 

 furrow of one face divided by a median ridge. — I-Iook. Fl. i. 280; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 278. 

 — Woods of W. Washington Terr, and Oregon (first coll. by Douglas], to Mendocino and 

 to Placer Co., California, Kilhyij, ifrs. Ames. 



■i- H— Atlantic species: drupe globular, quarter-inch long, bluish-purple or black when ripe: 

 cyme mostly with a caducous involucre of 5 or 6 small and subulate or linear thin bracts. 



V. aoerifolium, L. (Akrow-wood, Dock.hackie.) Soft-pubescent, or glabrate with 

 age, 3 to 6 feet high, with slender branches : winter-buds imperfectly scaly : leaves mem- 

 branaceous, rounded-ovate, 3-ribbed from the rounded or subcordate base, and with 3 short 

 and acute or acuminate divergent lobes (or some uppermost undivided), usuallv dentate to 

 near the base (larger 4 or 5 inches long) : cymes rather small and open : corolla 2 or 3 lines 

 in diameter : stone of drupe lenticular, hardly sulcate on either side. — Spec. i. 2GS ; Vent. 

 I-Iort. Cels. t. 272; Michx. Fl. i. 180; Wats.'Deudr. Brit. ii. t. 118 (poor) ; Hook. Fl. 1. c! 

 (partly) ; Torr, & Gray, 1. c. 17 ; Emerson, Trees of Mass. ii. 1. 19. — Rocky and cool woods. 

 Now Brunswick to Micbigau, Indiana, and N. Carolina. 



V. densiflorum, Chaph. Lower, 2 to 4 feet liigh .• leaves smaller (inch or two long), 

 with mostly sliorter lobes or sometimes n.mc: cyme denser: involucrnte bracts more con- 

 spicuous and less caducous : stone of the drupe undulate] v somewhat 2-snlcate on one face 

 and .3-sulcate ou the other.— Fl. ed. 2, Suppl. 624. — Wooded hills, W. Florida, Chapman. 

 Also, Taylor Co., Georgia, Nuisler, ii glabrate form. Too near V. iiceri/olium. 



