152 PENTANDRIA, TRIGYNIA. 



Black Haw. Plumb-leaved Mealy-tree. 



A very large shrub. Flowers as in all the following species, 

 white. Berries, indigo blue. In natural hedges and thickets 

 near water courses, every where common, lj • May. 



pyrifoiium. 2. V. smooth ; leaves ovate, subacute subserrate, 

 petioles smooth, fruit ovate-oblong, cymes sub- 

 pedunculate. — Lamark. 



Pear-leaved Mealy-tree. 



Larger than No. 1, and very like it. In swamps near Wood- 

 bury, Jersey, scarce. Jj . May, June. 



nudum. 



V. leaves oval, somewhat rugose, with the mar- 

 gins revolute, obscurely crenulate. — Sp. PI. 

 Icon. Mill* ic. 274. (Pursh.) 



Naked-cymed Mealy-tree. 



A smaller shrub than either of the preceding. Berries 

 black. In the swamps near Woodbury, Jersey, and on the 

 swampy ground near Kaighn's Point; not very common. I 

 have never found it on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware. 

 }j . May, June. 



dentatum, 



4. V. leaves ovate, with large serratures, plaited ; 

 fruit nearly globose. — Pers. 



Icon. Jacq. hort. t. 56. (Pursh.) 



Arrow-wood. Tooth-leaved Mealy-tree. 



Berries dark blue. On the banks of all our rivers and creeks, 

 and in damp woods, common. \± . June. 



acerifoiiura. 5. V. branches and petioles hairy and without 

 glands, leaves sub-cordate-ovate or three lobed, 

 acuminate narrowly-serrate, pubescent under- 

 neath, cymes in long peduncles. — Willd. 

 Icon. Vent. hort. eels. t. 72. (Pursh.) 



