April, 1914.] The Honeysuckle Family in Ohio. 
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broad; fruit a red globose or oval drupe f to f inch in diameter, 
very acid, translucent; stone not grooved, flat, orbicular. Low 
fields and woods. Lake, Geauga, Champaign. 
10. Viburnum alnifolium Marsh. Hobblebush. A shrub 
with smooth purplish bark, branches often procumbent, irregular 
and wide spreading; young twigs often scurfy; leaves orbicular or 
very broadly ovate, apex short acuminate or acute, base usually 
cordate, upper surface usually becoming glabrous, lower covered 
with a stellate pubescence especially along the veins, margin 
finely serrate, If to 2f inches broad, If to 3 inches long, petioles 
f to If inches long; cymes sessile, 3f to of inches broad, outer 
flowers large usually about one inch in diameter; fruit a red drupe, 
becoming purple, oblong, f to If inches long; stone three-grooved 
on one side, one-grooved on the other. In low woods. Ashtabula 
and Lake Counties. 
Symphoricarpos [Dill.] Ludw. 
Shrubs with opposite branches; leaves mostly entire, simple, 
short petioled, flowers mostly white or pink, bisporangiate, 
usually somewhat zygomorphic, tetracyclic or pentacyclic; corolla 
campanulate or salverform, often somewhat lipped, and gibbous at 
the base; calyx nearly globular; stamens as many as the corolla 
lobes; inflorescence axillary or in terminal clusters; ovulary 
4-locular, two cavities containing vestigial ovules, the other two 
each containing a single suspended ovule; style slender; fruit a 
2-seeded berry; seeds oblong with a small embryo. 
Key to the Species. 
1. Leaves usually glabrous, sometimes slightly pubescent beneath; flowers 
in few-flowered axillary and terminal clusters; style glabrous; berries 
snow white. S. racemosus. 
1. Leaves glabrous above, usually soft pubescent beneath; flowers in dense 
axillary clusters; style bearded; berries purplish red. 
5. symphoricarpos. 
1. Symphoricarpos racemosus Mx. Snowberrv. An erect 
almost glabrous shrub; leaves oval, obtuse at both ends, glabrous 
above, sometimes slightly pubescent beneath, f to If inches long, 
f to If inches wide, margin entire, wavy, or slightly dentate when 
young; petioles \ inch long; flower clusters terminal and axillary, 
the terminal one irregularly spicate; corolla campanulate, base 
gibbous, bearded within, style glabrous; fruit a white globose 
berry abcut f to f inch in diameter. In waste places and along 
river banks. Rather general. 
2. Symphoricarpos symphoricarpos (L.) MacM. Coral-berry. 
A shrub 1 to 5 feet in height with purplish usually pubescent 
twigs; leaves oval to ovate, entire or undulate, glabrous above, 
usually soft pubescent beneath, f to If inches long, f to 1 inch 
