GENUS 2. HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 271 
5. Viburnum pubéscens (Ait.) Pursh. 
Downy-leaved Arrow-wood NX 
Fig. 3961. 
Viburnum dentatum var. pubescens Ait. Hort. Kew. 
Li 372. 1789: 
V. pubescens Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 202. 1814. 
A shrub, 2°-5° high, with numerous straight 
and slender gray branches. Leaves sessile, or 
on petioles less than 3” long, ovate or oval, 
rounded or slightly cordate at the base, acute or 
acuminate at the apex, coarsely dentate, 14’-3’ 
long, densely velvety-pubescent beneath, glabrous, 
or with scattered hairs above, or rarely glabrate 
on both surfaces; cymes peduncled, 14’-23’ broad, 
the flowers all perfect; drupes oval, nearly black, 
about 4” long; stone slightly 2-grooved on both 
faces. 
Rocky woods and banks, Quebec and Ontario to 
Manitoba, south, especially along the Alleghanies to 
Georgia and to Illinois, lowa, Michigan and Wyoming. 
The leaves of shoots are sometimes entire or nearly 
so. June-July. 
6. Viburnum dentatum L. Arrow- 
wood. Fig. 3962. 
Viburnum dentatum L. Sp. Pl. 268. 1753. 
A shrub with slender glabrous gray 
branches, sometimes reaching a height of 
15°. Twigs and petioles glabrous; petioles 
3-12” long; leaves ovate, broadly oval or 
orbicular, rounded or slightly cordate at 
the base, acute or short-acuminate at the 
apex, prominently pinnately veined, coarsely 
dentate all around, 14’-3° broad, glabrous 
on both sides, or sometimes pubescent with 
simple hairs in the axils of the veins be- 
neath; cymes long-peduncled, 2’-3’ broad; 
flowers all perfect; drupe globose-ovoid, 
about 3” in diameter, blue, becoming nearly 
black; stone rather deeply grooved on one 
side, rounded on the other. 
In moist soil, New Brunswick to Ontario, 
south along the mountains to Georgia and to 
western New York, Michigan and Minnesota. 
y ‘ Called also mealy-tree. Withe-rod or -wood. 
May-June. 
7. Viburnum scabréllum (T. & G.) 
Chapm. Roughish Arrow-wood. 
Fig. 3963. 
V. dentatum semitomentosum Michx. FI. Bor. 
Am. 1: 179. 1803. 
V. dentatum var. (?) scabrellum T. & G. FL 
N, Ay @i 6, 1841. 
V. scabrellum Chapm. FI. S. States 172. 1860. 
V. semitomentosum Rehder, Rhodora 6: 59. 
1904. 
Similar to the preceding species but the 
twigs, petioles, rays of the cyme and lower 
surfaces of the leaves more or less densely 
stellate-pubescent; petioles short and stout- 
er; leaves usually larger, crenate or dentate, 
commonly somewhat pubescent above; drupe 
globose-ovoid, blue, 4” in diameter, its stone 
similar to that of V. dentatum. 
Woodlands and river banks, southern Penn- 
sylvania to Kentucky, Florida and Texas. Re- 
ferred, in our first edition, following previous 
authors, to VY. molle Michx., a species long 
misunderstood. 
