206 CAPRIFOLIACE^. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



panicled, convex or pyramidal ; fruit bright red (rarely white). -^Kocky woodsj 

 chiefly northward, and southward in the mountains. May : the fruit ripening 

 in June. — Pitli brown. — Var. with dissected leaves, Lake Superior, Lewis Foote, 

 Dr. Bobbins. 



7. VIBURNUM, L. Akeow-wood. Laurestinus. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla spreading, deeply 5-Iobed. Stamens 5. Stigmas 

 1-3. Fruit a 1 -celled, 1-seeded drupe, with soft pulp and a thin-crustaceous 

 (flattened or tumid) stone. — Shrubs, with simple leaves, and white flowers in 

 flat compound cymes. Petioles sometimes beai'ing little appendages which are 

 evidently stipules. Leaf-buds naked, or with a pair of scales. (The classical 

 Latin name, of unknown meaning. ) 



§ 1 . Flowei's all alike and perfect. 



* Leaves finely serrate or entire, bright green ; veins nut prominent : no stipular ap- 



pendages : whole plant glabrous or with some minute rusty scurf: fruit black or 

 with a blue bhom, sweet; the stone very flat and even, broadly oval or orbicular. 



1. V. Lentigo, L. (Sweet ViBUKNnsi. Sheep-beeey.) Leaves ovate, 

 strongly pointed, closely and very sharply serrate ; petioles long and margined ; 

 cyme sessile ; fruit oval, ^' or more long, ripe in autumn, edible ; tree 15° -30° 

 high. — Copses, &c. : common, especially northward. May, June. 



2. V. prunifblium, L. (Black Haw.) Leaves oval, obtuse or slightly 

 pointed, finely and sharply serrate, smaller than in the preceding (l'-2' long) ; 

 fruit similar or rather smaller; cyine sessile. — Dry copses; Connecticut to IIU' 

 nois, and common southward. May. — A tall shrub or small tree. 



3. v. ntldum, L. (Withe-eod.) Leaves thickish, oval, oblong or 

 lanceolate, not shining, the margins entire, repand, or crenate ; cyme short-peduncled ■; 

 fruit round-ovoid (3" long). — Var. 1. Clayt6ni has the leaves nearly entire, 

 the veins somewhat prominent underneath, and grows in swamps from Massa- 

 chusetts, near the coast, to Virginia and southward. Var. 2. CASSiNoipES^V.^ 

 pyrif blium, Pursh, ^'c. ) has more opaque, often toothed leaves ; and grows in cold 

 swamps from Pennsylvania northward. May, June. — Shrub 6° - 10° higli. 



4. V. ObOV&tUDl, Walt. Leaves obovate or spatidate, obtuse, entire or denticw- 

 late, thickish, small (1'- 1^' long), shining; cymes sessile, small; fruit ovoid- 

 oblong. — River-banks, Virginia and southward. May. — Shrub 2° - 8° high. 



* * Leaves {with base inclined to heart-shaped) coarsely toothed, prominently pinnately 



veined, the veins straight and simple or sparingly forked : no rusty scurf: fruit 

 s^nall, ovoid, blue or purple ; the stone tumid and grooved : cymes peduncled. 



5. V. dent^tum, L. (Aeeow-wood.) Smooth; leaves broadly ovate, 

 very numerously sharp-toothed and strongly veined, on slender petioles ; fruit bright 

 blue ; the turgid stone deeply excavated on one face ; cross section of the serd 

 between kidney- and horseshoe-shaped. — Wet places, common northward. June. 

 — Shrub 5° - 10° high, with ash-colored bark ; the pale leaves often with hairy 

 tufts in the axils of the straight veins. 



6. V. mblle, Michx. Leaves broadly oval, obovate or ovate, scarcely pointed, 

 coarsely crenate or repand-toothed, the lou>er surface, rather slender petioles, brancli- 

 lets and cymes soft-downy, the latter with stellate pubescence ; fruit oily (Ea- 



