270 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vou. III. 
2. Viburnum Opulus L. Cranberry- 
tree. Wild Guelder-rose. High 
Bush-cranberry. Fig. 3958. 
Viburnum Opulus L. Sp. Pl. 268. 1753. 
V. trilobum Marsh. Arb. Am. 162. 1785. 
V. americanum Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, no. 
8. 1768. 
A shrub sometimes 12° high, with nearly 
erect smooth branches. Leaves broadly 
ovate, sometimes broader than long, gla- 
brous, or with scattered hairs above, 
more or less pubescent on the veins be- 
neath, rather deeply 3-lobed, rounded or 
truncate and 3-ribbed at the base, the 
lobes divergent, acuminate, coarsely den- 
tate; petioles #1’ long, glandular above; 
cymes peduncled, 3-4’ in diameter, the. 
exterior flowers radiant, neutral, $’-1’ 
broad; drupes globose, or oval, 4-5” in 
diameter, red, very acid, translucent; 
stone orbicular, flat, not grooved. 
In low grounds, Newfoundland to Brit- 
ish Columbia, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa, 
South Dakota and Oregon. Also in Europe 
and Asia. Among many English names are 
marsh-, rose- or water-elder, white dog- 
= wood, whitten-tree, dog rowan-tree, gaiter- 
tree or gatten, cherry-wood, May-rose,, squaw-bush, cramp-bark. In cultivation, the snowball. 
Gadrise. Red elder. Love-roses. Witch-hopple 
or -hobble. Pincushion-tree. June-July. 
3. Viburnum pauciflérum Pylaie. 
Few-flowered Cranberry-tree. Fig. 3959. 
V. pauciflorum Pylaie;T.&G. FI.N.A.2:17. 1841. 
Viburnum Opulus var. eradiatum Oakes, Hovey’s 
Mag. 7: 183. 1841. ; 
A straggling shrub, 2°-6° high, with twigs 
and petioles glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
broadly oval, obovate, or broader than long, 
5-ribbed, truncate or somewhat cordate at 
the base, mostly with 3 rather shallow lobes 
above the middle, coarsely and unequally 
dentate, glabrous above, more or less pu- 
bescent on the veins beneath, 14’-3’ broad; 
cymes peduncled, short-rayed, 4-1’ broad; 
flowers all perfect and small; drupes glo- 
bose to ovoid, light red, acid, 4’-5” long; 
stone flat, orbicular, scarcely grooved. 
In cold mountain woods, Newfoundland_ to 
Alaska, south to Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- 
mont, Pennsylvania, in the Rocky Mountains to 
Colorado, and to Washington, June-July. 
4. Viburnum acerifélium L. Maple- 
leaved Arrow-wood. Fig. 3960. 
V. acerifolium L. Sp. Pl. 268. 1753. 
A shrub 3°-6° high, with smooth gray 
slender branches, and somewhat pubescent 
twigs and petioles. Leaves ovate, orbicu- 
lar, or broader than long, cordate or trun- 
cate at the base, pubescent on both sides, 
or becoming glabrate, 2’-5’ broad, mostly 
rather deeply 3-lobed, coarsely dentate, the 
lobes acute or acuminate; petioles 3’-1’ 
long; cymes long-peduncled, 13’-3’ broad; 
flowers all perfect, 2-3” broad; drupe 
nearly black, 3’’-4” long, the stone lenticu- 
lar, faintly 2-ridged on one side and 2- 
grooved on the other. 
In dry or rocky woods, New Brunswick to 
Georgia, Alabama, Ontario, Michigan and 
Minnesota. Upper leaves sometimes merely 
toothed, not lobed. May-June. Squash-berry. 
Maple-leaf guelder-rose. Dockmakie. 
