KEY TO THE SPECIES OF VIBURNUM 



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Fig. 367. -~ Hairy Laurestiuua. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF VIBURNUM 



* Snowball group, with all the flowers enlarged and sterile and thus 



forming no fruit. (A.) 

 A. Leaves deciduous, smooth, feather-veined with notched edges but 

 not lobed. (B.) 

 B. Leaves finely notched, dark green above ; flower-clusters 7-8 

 inches broad. Chinese Snowball — Viburnum macroc^pha- 

 lum stfirile. 

 B. Leaves coarsely notched and plaited ; flower-clusters 3 inches 

 broad. Japanese Snowball (350) — Viburnum toment6sum 

 plicStum. 

 A. Leaves radiate-veined and broadly 3-lobed. Snowball or Guel- 

 der ' Rose' — Viburnum 6pulus sterile. 



* Mixed group ; some of the flowers fruit-producing but the marginal 



ones enlarged and sterile ; leaves deciduous. (C.) 

 C. Leaves without lobes ; drupes red becoming darker. (D.) 

 D. Leaves orbicular, somewhat heart-shaped, 3-8 inches broad. 

 Hobble-bush, Witch Hobble, or Moosewood (351) — Vi- 

 burnum alnif61ium. 



