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gdm.), the stone &s in No. 5, but less deeply excavated on the face. (V. denta- 

 tum, var. scabrellum, Torr. ^ Gr.) — Rich woods, Kentucky and southward. 



7. V. pub^SCens, Pursh. (Downt a.) Leaves ovate or oblong-ovaie, 

 acute or taper-pointed, the veins and teeth fewer and less conspicuous than in 

 No. 5, the lower surface and very short petioles soft-dmimy, at least when young ; 

 fruit dark-purple ; the stone plano-convex and 3 - 4-grooved on the flat face. — 

 Rocks, &c., W. Vermont to New Jersey, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and northward. 

 June. — A low, straggling shrub. 



* * * Leaves coarsely toothed and somewhat SMed, roundish, the base mostly 



truncate or somewhat heart-shaped, 3 - 5-ribbed from the base, the ribs and veins 

 prominent beneath : stipular appendages bristle-shaped : cymes small, slender- 

 pedunded: fruit red; the stone flattened. 



8. V. acerifdlium, L. (Maple-leaved A. Dockmackie.) Leaves 

 soft-downy beneath, 3-ribbed, the pointed lobes diverging, unequally toothed ; 

 stamens exserted ; fruit crimson turning purple ; the lenticular stone undulately 

 2-grooved on one face and 3-grooved on the other. — Rocky woods : common. 

 May, June. Shrub 3° - 6° high. 



9. V. paucifl6rum, Pylaie. Leaves glabrous or loosely pubescent beneath, 

 5-ribbed at base, unequally serrate nearly all round, with 3 short lobes at the 

 summit ; cyme few-flowered ; stamens shorter than the cordlla ; fruit red, sour, glob- 

 ular; the stone very flat and even. ("V. Oxycdccus, var. eradiktum, Oakes.) — 

 Cold woods. Northern N. Hampshire, New York, Wisconsin, and northward. — 

 A low straggling shrub, most related to the next ; the leaf-ljuds similar. 



§ 2. Marginal flowers of the cyme destitute of stamens and pistils, and with corollas 

 many times larger than the others, forming a kind of ray, as in Hydrangea ; 

 stipular appendages conspicuous on the petiole. 



* Fruit spherical, pleasantly acid, bright red; the stone very flat, smooth and even, 



nearly orbicular : leaf-buds enclosed in one or two pairs of scales. 



10. V. Opulns, L. (Cranbekrt-tree.) Nearly smooth, upright (5°- 

 10° high) ; leaves 3 -5-ribbed, strongly 3-lobed, broadly wedge-shaped or trun- 

 cate at the base, the spreading lobes <pointed, mostly toothed on the sides, entire 

 in the sinuses ; petioles bearing 2 glands at the apex, cymes peduncled. (V. 

 Oxycoccus and V. ^dule, Pursh.) — Low grounds, along streams: common 

 northward, and southward in the Alleghanies to the borders of Maryland. 

 June, July. — The acid fruit is a, substitute for cranberries, whence the name 

 High Cranberry-bush, &c. — The well-known Snow-ball Tkee, or Guelder- 

 RosE, is a cultivated state, with the whole cyme turned into showy sterile 

 flowers. (Eu. ) 



* * Fruit ovoid, red, turning darker; the stone tumid, 6-grooved: buds wholly naked. 



11. V. lautanoldes, Michx. (Hobble-bush. American Watfar- j 

 iNG-TREE.) Leaves round-ovate, abruptly pointed, heart-shaped at the base, 

 closely serrate, pinnately many-veined ; the veins and veinlets underneath along 

 with the stalks and branchlets very rusty-scurfy ; cymes sessile, very broad and 

 flat. — Cold moist woods, New England to Penn. and northward, and southward 

 in the Alleghanies. May. — A straggling shrub ; the reclining branches often 

 taking root. Flowers handsome. Leaves 4'-.8' across. 



