HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



apex, smooth or with a few hairs along the veins underneath, 

 petioled, opposite. Two glands appear at the top of the petioles. 



Found along streams and in woods from Maine to Pennsyl- 

 vania and westward. Cultivated and all the flowers made 

 into showy, neutral blossoms, this shrub becomes the garden 

 snowball tree, or guelder rose. In this case the cyme becomes 

 a ball. 



Dockmackie. Arrow-wood 



V. acerifolium. — Color, white. In this species the flowers are 

 all perfect, none being neutral and larger than the others. They 

 make a cluster, or cyme, with long peduncles, each flower pedi- 

 celled, the cyme i J to 3 inches across. Fruit, a drupe, first crim- 

 son, then turning a bluish black. Leaves, opposite, broadly tri- 

 angular, 3-lobed, palmately veined, lobes pointed, spreading, 

 coarsely and deeply toothed, downy on both sides when young, 

 petioled, with bristly stipules. Very deep crimson in fall. May 

 and June. 



A shrub, 3 to 6 feet high, with grayish, slender branches, 

 found in cool, thin woods, along roadsides, in dry soil, in all 

 the Atlantic States to North Carolina, and westward. 

 Withe-rod. Wild Raisin. Appalachian Tea 



K cassinoides. — Color, white. Flowers, many, making large, 

 compound, terminal cymes, peduncled, slightly fragrant. Leaves, 

 thick, oval or oblong, mostly entire, 4 to 9 inches long, narrow- 

 ing at base into a short petiole, pointed at apex, scurfy on the 

 upper surface. Fruit, pink at first, then blue black, with a bloom. 

 June and July. 



A shrub from 3 to 12 feet high, with grayish branches, 

 found in swamps or moist woods, or along the banks of 

 streams, from Maine to North Carolina and westward. 

 Downy Arrow-wood 



V, pubescens. — Color, white. Flowers, all perfect, in cymes, 

 with peduncles. Fruit, almost black. Leaves, ovate, rather broad, 

 coarsely dentate, pinnately veined, the veins ending in the teeth, 

 very downy on the under sides, somewhat hairy above, on short 

 petioles or none, i| to 3 inches long. June and July. 



A species found in rocky ground, limestone ridges and 

 banks, from Maine to Georgia and westward, common among 

 the Alleghany Mountains. 2 to 5 feet high. 

 Arrow-wood 



V. dentktam. — Color, white. Flowers, all perfect, in flat cymes, 

 peduncled, 2 to 3 inches broad. Leaves, pale green, broadly 



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