Viburnum. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 11 



* * Leaves pinnately and conspicuously veiny with straight veins (irnpressed-plicate above, promi- 

 nent beneath and the lowest pair basal), thinnish, coarsely dentate: stipules subulate-setaceous: 

 cyines pedunculate, about 7-rayed: stone of the drupe more or less silicate. Ahrow-wood. 



-i- Stone and seed flat, slightly plano-convex: leaves all short-petioled or subsessile. 

 V. pubescens, Pritsn. Slender, 2 to 5 feet high : leaves oblong- or more broadly ovate, 

 acute or acuminate, acutely dentate-serrate (l£ to 3 inches long, on petioles 2 to 4 Hues long, 

 or upper hardly any), soft-tomentulose with simple downy hairs beneath, but varying to 

 slightly pubescent (and in one form almost glabrous with upper face lucidulous) : peduncle 

 generally shorter than the cyme : drupe oval, 4 lines long, blackish-purple, flattened when 

 young ; stone lightly 2-suleate on the faces, margins narrowly incurved, no intrusion on 

 ventral face — Fl. i. 202 (excl. habitat, and syu. Michx.); Torr. Fl. i. 320; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 326; Hook. Fl. i. 2S0; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii.'l6; Gray, Man. ed. 5, 206; (Erst. 1. c. t. 7, 

 fig. 21, 22. r. dentatum, var. pubescens, Ait. Kew. i. 372 1 V. dentatum, var. semitomentosum, 

 Michx. Fl. i. 179, in small part (spec, from L. Champlain). V. villosum, Raf. in Med. Rep. 

 1S08, & Desv. Jour. Bot. i. 228, not Swartz. V. Rqfincsr/uianiim, Ecem. & Sehult. Syst. v. 

 630. — Rocky ground, Lower Canada to Saskatchewan, west to Illinois, south to Stone 

 Mountain, Georgia. (Not, as Pursh would have it, in the lower parts of Carolina.) 



•t— -4— Stone deeply sulcate-intruded ventrally : transverse section of seed about three-fourths 

 annular, with rlattish back: leaves rather slender-petioled. 



V. dentatum, L. Shrub 5 to 15 feet high, with ascending branches, glabrous or nearly 

 so, no stellular pubescence : leaves from orbicular- to oblong-ovate, with rounded or sub- 

 cordate base, acutely many-dentate (2 or 3 inches long) ; primary veins 8 to 10 pairs (some 

 of them once or twice forked), often a tuft of hairs in their axil : peduncle generally longer 

 than the cyme : drupe ovoid, three lines long, terete, bright blue, darker at maturity. — 

 Spec. i. 268 ; Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. t. 36 ; Torr. 1. c. ; Wats. Dendr. Brit. t. 25 ; Torr. & Gray, 

 1. c, excl. var.; Gray, Man. 1. c. V. dentatum, var. lucidum, Ait. Kew. 1. c. — Wet ground, 

 chiefly in swamps, New Brunswick to Michigan, and south to the mountains of Georgia. 

 Seems to pass into following, but the extremes widely different. 



V. molle, Michx. Young shoots, petioles, cymes, &c. beset with stellular pubescence : 

 leaves orbicular or broadly oval to ovate, more crenately dentate, soft-pubescent at least 

 beneath (larger 4 inches long); veins of the preceding or fewer: petioles shorter: drupe 

 4 lines long, more pointed by the style: calyx-teeth more conspicuous. — Fl. i. 180, but 

 foliage only seen; Gray, Man. ed. 3 & ed. 5, 206. V. dentatum, var. semitomentosum, Michx. 

 1. c. in large part; Ell. Sk. i. 365. V. dentatum, var. ? scabrellum, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 16. 

 V. scabrellum, Chapm. Fl. i. 72. — Coast of New England (Martha's Vineyard, Bessey) to 

 Texas : flowers at the north in summer, later than V. dentatum. 



* # * Leaves lightly or loosely pinnately veined, of firmer or somewhat coriaceous texture, 

 petioled, mostlv glabrous: stipules or stipule-like appendages none: mature drupes black or 

 with a blue bloom, mealy and saccharine; the stone and seed flat or lenticular, plane: winter- 

 buds of few and firm scales: petioles and rays of the cyme mostly lepidote with some minute 

 rusty scales or scurf. 



■t- Cymes peduncled, about 5-rayed: drupes globose-ovoid, 3 lines long: stone orbicular, flattened- 

 lenticular: shrubs 5 to 8 or 12 feet high, in swamps. 

 V. cassinoides, L. (Withe-rod.) Shoots scurfy-punctate : leaves thickish and opaque 

 or dull, ovate to oblong, mostly with obtuse acumination, obscurely veiny (1 to 3 inches 

 long), with margins irregularly crenulate-denticulate or sometimes entire : peduncle shorter 

 than the cyme. — Spec. ed. 2, ii. 384 (pi. Kami), excl. syn., at least of Mill. & Pluk.; Torr. 

 Fl. i. 318; DC. 1. c. V. squamatum, Willd. Enum. i. 327; Wats. Dendr. Brit. t. 24. V. 

 pyrifolium, Pursh, Fl. i. 201, not Poir. V. nudum, Hook. Fl. i. 279; Emerson, Trees of 

 Mass. ed. 2, 411, t. 18. V. nudum, var. cassinoides, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 14; Gray, Man. 1. c. 



— Swamps, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, New England to New Jersey and Pennsylvania : 

 flowers earlier than the next. 



V. nudum, L. Obscurely scurfy-punctate : leaves more veiny, oblong or oval, sometimes 

 narrower, entire or obsoletely denticulate, lucid above (commonly 2 to 4 inches long) : 

 peduncle usually equalling the cyme. — Spec. i. 268 (pi. Clayt.) ; Mill. Ic. t. 274 ; Willd. 

 Spec. i. 1487 ; Michx. Fl. i. 178 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2281 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c, var. Claytoni. 



— Swamps, New Jersey or S. New York to Florida and Louisiana : fl. summer, or southward 

 in spring. 



