CAPKIF0LIACEJ2. 149' 



1. S. Canadensis, L. Common Elder. 



Ml scarcely woady; leaflets 7 to 11, oblong, smooth, the lower often 3-parted; 

 cymes flat, 5-parted. 



Thickets and waste grounds; common. May, June. Stem 5 to 10 feet liijrli, 

 filled with a light porous pit) '•'•* numerous, in 



V( rv i l road) Level-topped cymes, white, rather fragrant. Berries dark 



purple or black. 



2. 8. P Michx. UrJ-berricd Elder. 



5 to 7, ovate-lanceolate, downy beneath; cywes panieled, 

 eonvt-x-;>y:i'i 



Kockv woods. June. July. Stem 6 to s . sometimes 15 feet high, warty, often 

 round-topped and tree-like. " Leaves simple and unequally pinnate. Flowers in a 

 thyrse or panicle. Corolla white. Berries small, scarlet. 



7. VIBURNUM. Linn. 



Calyx 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla rotate, spreading,. 



deeply 5-toothed. Stamens 6, equal. Stigmas 3, sessile. 



Fruit a 1-eelled, 1-seeded drupe with thin pulp and a hard 



flattened stone. — Shrubs or small trees, with petiolcd haves, 



white flowers in flat compound cymes. 



* 1. Lentago, DC. Flowers all alike and perfect; fruit blue or blade when ripe, 

 glaucous. 



Leaves serrate or toothed, entire. 



1. V. prunifolium, L. Black Haw. 



ipreading, smooth; leaves broadly oval, obtuse at both ends, finely and 

 fharply serrate, shining above, smooth: petioles naked; cymes sessile; fruit ovoid- 

 oblong. 



Woods: bbmmon. May. A shrub or small tree 10 to 20 feet high, with spread- 

 ing, s ;:tcd branches. Leaves abOut 12 inches long. 1]^ wide, on short, 

 slight] petioles. Cymes large, terminal, sessile. Flowers white. Fruit 

 dark-blue or blackish, sweet and eatable. 



2. V. nudum, L. Withe Rod. Swamp Raw. 



] .. 3r lanceolate, revolute at the edge, sub-crenate ; 



-hort peduncled; fruit round-ovoid. 



mmon. May, June. A handsome shrub 6 to 10 feet high. 



•s long, punctate-dotted beneath like the short petioles and 



brownish scales, smooth above, the margin more or less rolled. 



iiierous, white. Berries dark- blue, covered with a glaucous bloom, 



Ratable. 



* 3. V. Lentago, L. Sweet Viburnum. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, acutely and sharply serrate ; petioles with wavy mar- 

 gins; cymes terminal, sessile; fruit oral. 



Rocky wood«. May, June. A small handsome tree 10 to 20 feet high. Leaves 

 smooth, long-acuminate, 3 inches long, x /i as wide, on long wavy margined petioles. 

 Feliolcs midr-ibs and branches of the cyme sprinkled with rusty glands when 



Sung.- Flowers white, in broad spreading cymes. Berries % inch long, blue- 

 ick when ripe. 



4. V. dentatum, L. Arrow-wood. 



Smooth; leaves broadly-ovate, coarsely and sharply-toothed, sub-plicate; petiole* 

 •lender; cymes peduncled; fruit ovoid-globose. 



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