Viburnum. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 11 



* * Leaves pinnately and conspicuously veiny witli straight veins (impressed-plicate above, promi- 

 nent beneatli and the lowest pair basal), thinni^h, coarsely dentate: stipules subulate-setaceous; 

 cymes pedunculate, about 7-raycd: stone of the drupe more or less sulcate. Aruow-wood. 



■i^ Stone and seed flat, slightly plano-convex: leaves all short-petioled or subsessile. 

 ' V. pub^scens, Pursh. Slender, 2 to 5 feet high : leaves oblong- or more broadly ovate, 

 acute or acuminate, acutely dentate-serrate (1|- to 3 inches long, on petioles 2 to 4 lines long, 

 or upper hardly any), soft-tomentulose with simple do^vny hairs beneath, but varying to 

 slightly pubescent (and in one form almost glabrous with upper fare lueidulous) : peduncle 

 generally shorter than the cyme : drupe oval, 4 lines long, blackish-purple, flattened when 

 young ; stone lightly 2-suleate on the faces, margins iiarrowly incurved, no intrusion on 

 veiiti-al face. — Fh i. 202 (excl. habitat, and syn. Michx.) ; Torr. Fl. i. .'Sio ; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 326; liook. Fl. i. 28U ; Torr. & (iray, Fl. ii. 16; (iray, Man. ed. 5, 206; CErst. 1. c. t. 7, 

 fig. 21, 22. r. ili'iitalniii, var. pubescens, Ait. Kew. i. 372 '! V. dgntatiim, var. semitomenlosiim, 

 Michx. Fl. i. 179, in small ]jart (spec, from L. C'liamjdain). V. villosum, Eaf. in Med. Rep. 

 1808, & Desv. Jour. Bot. i. 228, not Swartz. 1'. Jin/inr'sijuiiiiiuin, Rcem. & Schult. Syst. v. 

 630. — lioeky ground. Lower Canada to (Saskatchewan, west to Illinois, south to Stone 

 Mountain, Georgia. (Kot, as Fursh would have it, in the lower jjarts of Carolina.) 

 H^ -i— Stone deeply sulcate-intruded ventrally : transverse section of seed aljoiit three-fourths 

 annular, with Hattish back: leaves rather slender-petioled. 



V. dentatum, L. Sln-nlj 5 to 15 feet high, with ascending branches, glabrous or nearly 

 so, no stellular pubescence : leaves from orbicular- to ol>long-ovate, with rounded or sub- 

 cordate base, acutely many-dentate (2 or 3 inches long) ; primary veins 8 to 10 pairs (some 

 of them once or twice forked), often a tuft of hairs in their axil : peduncle generally longer 

 than the cyme : drupe ovoid, three lines long, terete, bright blue, darker at maturity. — 

 Spec. i. 268 ; Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. t. 36 ; Torr. 1. c. ; Wats. Dendr. Brit. t. 25 ; Torr. & (iray, 

 1. c, excl. var. ; Gray, Man. 1. c. V. dentatum, var. lucidum, Ait. Kew. 1. c. — Wet ground, 

 chiefly in swamps. New Brunswick to Michigan, and south to the mountains of Georgia. 

 Seems to pass into following, but the extremes widely different. 

 . v. moUe, MK.nx. Young shoots, petioles, cymes, &c. beset with stellular pubescence : 

 leaves orbicular or broadly oval to ovate, more crenately dentate, soft-pubescent at least 

 beneath (larger 4 inches long); veins of the preceding or fewer: petioles shorter; drupe 

 4 lines long, more pointed by the style: calyx- teeth more conspicuous. — Fl. i. 180, but 

 foliage only seen; Gray, Man. ed. 3 & ed. 5, 206. V. dentatum, var. semitomentosum, Michx. 

 1. c. in large part; Ell. Sk. i. 365. T'. dentatum, var. ■? scahrellum, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 16. 

 V. scabrellum, Cbapm. Fl. i. 72. — Coast of New England (Martha's Vineyard, iJessci/) to 

 Texas : flowers at the north in summer, later than F. dentatum. 



* * * Leaves lightly or loosely pinnately veined, of firmer or somewhat coriaceous texture, 

 petioled, mostly glabrous: stipules or stipule-lilte appendages none: mature drupes black or 

 with a blue bloom, mealy and saccharine; the stone and seed iiat or lenticular, plane: winter- 

 buds of few and firm scales: petioles and rays of the cyme mostly lepidote with some minute 

 rusty scales or scurf. 



-I— Cymes peduncled, about 5-rayed: drupes globose-ovoid, 3 lines long: stone orbicular, flattened- 

 lenticular: shrubs 6 to 8 or 12 feet high, in swamps. 

 V. oassinoides, L. (Withe-kod.) Shoots scurfy-punctate: leaves thickish and opaque 



or dull, ovate to oblong, mostly with obtuse acumination, obscurely veiny (1 to 3 inches 



long), with margins irregularly crenulate-denticulate or sometimes entire ; peduncle shorter 



than the cyme. — Spec. ed. 2, ii. 384 (pi. Kalm), excl. syn., at least of Mill. & Pluk.; Torr. 



Fl. i. 318; DC. 1. c. T'. squamatnm, Willd. Enum. i. 327; Wats. Dendr. Brit, t 24. V. 



pi/rifolhim, Pursh, Fl. i. 201, not Poir. V. nudum. Hook. Fl. i. 279; Emerson, Trees of 



Mass. ed. 2, 411, t. 18. V. nudum, var. oassinoides, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 14; Gray, Man. 1. c. 



— Swamps, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, New England to New Jersey and Pennsylvania : 



flowers earlier than the next. 

 v. nudum, L. Obscurely scurfy-punctate : leaves more veiny, oblong or oval, sometimes 



narrow-er, entire or obsoletely denticulate, lucid above (commonly 2 to 4 inches long) : 



peduncle usually equalling the cyme.-— Spec. i. 268 (pi. Clayt.) ; Mill. Ic. t. 274 ; Willd. 



Spec. i. 1487 ; Michx. Fl. i. 178 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2281 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c., var. Claytoni. 



Swamps, New Jersey or S. New York to Florida and Louisiana ; fl. summer, or southward 



in spring. 



