XIX. 2. THE ARROW WOOD. 367 
teeth of the calyx, surrounding the triple or apparently single 
stigma. 
The young shoots of this tree are said by Marshall, (Ardus- 
trum, p. 160,) to have been generally used by the natives for 
arrows, whence it is known by the name of arrow wood. 
Sp. 4. Tse Marre Leavep Arrow Woon. V. dcerifoliuwm. L. 
A slender, low shrub, not often more than five or six feet 
high, remarkable for the resemblance of its leaves to those of 
the red maple. It 1s found in rocky woods throughout the 
State, and from Canada to the country beyond the Mississippi. 
The stem is erect, with a brownish bark, and very infrequent 
wart-like, whitish dots. Recent shoots of a lighter brown or 
pale green, and with the leaf-stalks and flower-stalks downy 
and scattered with hairs. Branches opposite, ascending at a 
sharp angle. Leaves opposite, from two to four inches long, 
and of nearly equal breadth, rounded or heart-shaped at base, 
three-lobed, with large, irregular teeth, waved, smooth or some- 
what hairy, and impressed at the veins above; lighter and 
downy, and hairy, particularly on the veins and veinlets be- 
neath; the lobes diverging, separated by a broad, shallow notch, 
and ending in a prolonged, often bluntish point. ‘The leaf- 
stalks appressed and swellimg at base, round, one inch or less in 
length, with scattered hairs and somewhat downy, and with 
colored, linear, pointed stipules at base, or assuming the form 
of glands higher up. The terminal leaves are often entire, 
without lobes, and broad-ovate or roundish in shape. 
The flowers are in terminal cymes, on round, smooth, or 
slightly pubescent stalks, gradually enlarging, and about two 
inches long, with two linear, perishing bracts at the end. ‘The 
partial footstalks, about six in number, radiate from one pomt, 
and repeatedly and somewhat regularly sub-dividing by threes 
or twos, terminate in pairs of very short flower-stems. The 
flowers are tinted with pale purple before opening. ‘The calyx 
ends in five small, obtuse, appressed, colored teeth. ‘The corolla 
is white, cup-shaped, with five ovate, pointed or rounded, re- 
flexed segments. Stamens on tapering filaments, twice as long 
as the corolla, bearing a large, short, yellow anther. ‘The ber- 
