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272 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vo. ITI. 
8. Viburnum venosum Britton. Veiny 
Arrow-wood. Fig. 3964. 
Viburnum venosum Britton, Man. 871. 1901. 
V. venosum Canbyi Rehder, Rhodora 6: 60. 
1904. 
A shrub, 6° high or less, the bark grayish- 
brown, the young twigs stellate-pubescent 
or stellate-tomentose. Leaves ovate to 
orbicular, 2’-5’ long, firm, coarsely and 
sharply dentate, glabrous or with sparse 
pubescence on the upper side when young, 
stellate-pubescent, at least on the veins, 
beneath, the petioles +’-3’ long; cymes long- 
stalked, often 3’-4’ broad, stellate-pubescent 
or glabrate; drupe globose or short-oval, 
3-4” in diameter, nearly black. 
Thickets, eastern Massachusetts to New 
Shoots 
sometimes bear reniform, very thin subcordate 
leaves with minute distant teeth. June-July. 
g. Viburnum mélle Michx. Soft- 
leaved Arrow-wood. Fig. 3965. 
V. molle Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 180, 1803. 
Viburnum Demetrionis Deane & Robinson, 
Bot. Gaz. 22: 167. pl. 8. 1896. 
A shrub about 12° high, the older twigs 
at length grayish black, the bark exfoliating. 
Bud-scales acutish, ciliolate; leaves broadly 
ovate or nearly orbicular, short-acuminate 
at the apex, cordate or truncate at the base, 
3-5’ long, coarsely dentate, glabrous and 
bright green above, soft-pubescent and paler 
beneath, some of the pubescence stellate; 
petioles 8-20” long; stipules linear-filiform, 
long; cymes terminal, peduncled, 
4~-7-rayed, glandular-puberulent ; calyx-teeth 
ciliate; drupe oblong, obtuse at both ends, 
about 5” long and 23” broad, much flattened, 
with 2 grooves when dry. 
Bluffs and rocky woods, Kentucky, Missouri 
and Iowa. June. 
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to. Viburnum cassinoides L. 
Withe-rod. Appalachian Tea. 
Fig. 3966. 
Viburnum cassinoides L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 
384. 1762. 
Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides T. & 
G. F A. 2:14. 1841. 
A shrub, 2°-12° high, with ascend- 
ing gray branches, the twigs some- 
what scurfy, or glabrous. Leaves 
ovate or oval, thick, pinnately veined, 
narrowed or sometimes rounded at 
the base, acute or blunt-acuminate at 
the apex, 1’-3’ long, usually crenu- 
late, rarely entire, glabrous or very 
nearly so on both sides; peduncle 
shorter than or equalling the cyme; 
drupe pink, becoming dark blue, 
globose to ovoid, 3-5” long; stone 
round or oval, flattened. 
In swamps and wet soil, Newfound- 
land to Manitoba, Minnesota, New 
Jersey, Georgia and Alabama, June- 
July. False Paraguay-tea. 
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