cate from the strong and nearly simple straight veins, glabrous and shining
above, pale beneath, with tufts of villous hairs in the axils of the veins, slightly
pilose-eiliate; cymes pedunculate, nearly glabrous ; fruit small, globose-
ovoid ; the nucleus grooved or excavated on one side and obtusely ridged on
the other.—Linn. ! spec. 1. p. 268 ; Jaeq. hort. Vindob. 1. i. 36 ; Pursh,Jl.
1. p. 202 ; Torr.! ft. 1. p. 319 ; D C .! prodr. 4. p. 326 ; Hoolc. ft. Bor.-Am.
1. p. 280; Darlingt.fi. Cest. p. 203. V. dentatum var. lucidum, Ait. Kew.
{ed. 1) 1. p. 372. Y. dentatum var. glabellum, Michx. partly.
p. ? scabrellum: young branchlets and peduncles scabrous and often hairy;
leaves (often large) roundish-cordate or ovate, coarsely and rather obtusely
toothed, pubescent beneath; petioles and peduncles shorter.—Y. dentatum
(a. & p. chiefly), Michx. ! ft. 1. p. 179; Ell. sJc. 1. p. 365.
Swamps and low grounds; a. Canada! and Northern States! to Virginia.
p. S. Carolina and Georgia! to Florida! and Louisiana! June. p.
March—May.—Shrub 8-15 feet high (the wood hard), with obtusely angular
gray branches ; the young vigorous shoots straight and slender. Fruit deep
blue, or bluish-black when fully ripe, with very little pulp : nucleus with a
deep longitudinal groove on one . side, and the edges incurved, so that the
transverse section is somewhat reniform; but sometimes there are two shallow
grooves, and the edges scarcely incurved.—The northern, plant is very
common, and uniform in appearance : the leaves are 2-3 inches Tong and often
of nearly the same width, with strong simply-forked veins, and' quite glabrous,
except the tufts in the axils of the veins, and a few scattered hairs on
the young petioles and Veins beneath,; the peduncle is 2 or 3 inches in length;
and the drupes about 3 lines long. But in Pennsylvania this same plant be^-
comes more pubescent; a few scattered hairs often appearing on the upper
surface of the leaves, while the young petioles and peduncles are clpthed with
separate or fasciculate hairs. A still more’ pubescent plant abounds in the
Southern States; the leaves of which (sometimes 4 inches in breadth, but
usually scarcely half that size,) are almost villous or velvety when young
with somewhat fasciculate hairs, in part only deciduous : the peduncles are.
about an inch long,, and the drupes 4 lines in length. This may very probably
be a distinct species, but we are unable to distinguish it satisfactorily as
such,—Arrow-wood.
7. V. pubescens (Pursh): leaves ovate or oval-oblongs acuminate; coarsely
toothed, often somewhat cordate, appearing slightly plicate from the straight
sparingly branched veins, somewhat hairy above ; the lower surface, with
the very 'short petioles, villous-tomentose or velvety; cyme pedunculate,
nearly glabrous; fruit (small) oblong; the much compressed nucleus slightly
2-crrooved on one side and obtusely ridged on the other.—Pursh, ft. 1. p. 202
(excl. the habitat, chiefly); Tom.! ft. 1. p. 320; DC.! prodf. 4 .p. 326;
Hook. ft. Bar.-Am. 1. p. 280. V. dentatum var. pubescens, Ait. Kew.
{ed. 1) 1. p. 168. V. dentatum var. semitomentosum, Michx.! l,_c. partly.
V. villosum, Baft, in med. repos, (hex. 2) 5. p. 361 (1808), Sf in Desv.
jour. hot. i .ft : 228; not o f Swartz. V. tomentosum, Rqf. 1. c. (1808)
p . 354. (without descr.) V. Rafinesquianum, Rcerh. Sf Schult. syst. 6. p. 630.
Dry rocky banks, Canada (from Lake Winipeg) and northern part of
New York! also near West Point! New Jersey, Beck ! and the mountainous
portions of North Carolina, Sehweinitz ! June.—Shrub 2—3 feet high, with
straggling branches. Leaves about 2 inches long, nearly glabrous above
when old. Peduncle at first shorter than the cyme, hut mostly elongated in
fruit. Flowers fewer and larger than in V. dentatum. Fruit 3 lines long ;
the nucleus nearly flat.—Perhaps the plant which Pursh, and even Aiton,
had in view, may have been our V. dentatum p. scabrellum. The present
species extends into the Southern States along the mountains ; but certainly
does not grow “ in the lower parts of Virginia and-Carolina.” The plant
of the Hortus Kewensis came from Peter Collinson’s garden.
* * Leaves lobed or incised.
8. V. acerifolium (Linn.) : leaves roundish or broadly ovate, mostly sub-
cordate, 3-ribbed from the base, 3-lobed, coarsely and unequally toothed, velvety
pubescent beneath; the lobes divergent and mostly acuminate; petioles
(with the young branchlets and ribs of the leaves) pubescent and somewhat
hirsute, furnished near the base with two setaceous stipuliform appendages;
cymes pedunculate;. fruit oval, compressed; stamens much exserted.—-Linn.!
spec, 1. p. 268 {pi. Gronov.!) ; Vent. hort. Cels. t. 272; Michx. ! ft. 1. p.
180 ; Pursh, ft. l.p . 203 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 364 ; Wats, dendr. Brit. 1 .1. 118 ;
Torr.! ft. 1. p. 320 ; Bigel. ft. Bost. ed. 2. p . 116 ; D C .! ptodr. 4. p . 327;
Hook.! ft. Bor.-Am. l.p . 280 (partly); Darlingt. ft. Cest. p. 204.
Woods, particularly in rocky situations, Canada! and nearly throughout
the United States ! and probably iri Oregon. May-June.—Shrub 3-5' feet
high, with straight slender branches; the younger branchlets (like the petioles
and, in a less degree, the primary veins or ribs of the leaves) usually
clothed both with a very short soft pubescence, and With slender rather ap-<
pressed hirsute hairs. Leaves 2-5 inches in diameter, membranaceous, glabrous
or sparsely hairy above, often minutely dotted beneath ; the soft close
pubescence of the lower surface stellate. Peduncle about 2 inches long; the
loose cyme 2-3 inches broad. Corolla often slightly tinged with rose-color.
Drupe broadly oval, 3-4 lines long, nearly black when ripe : the nucleus
with 2 obtuse ridges on one side, and 2 corresponding shallow grooves on the
other.—Arrow-wood.
9. V. paucifloTum (Pylaie! herb.) i branches and petioles glabrous or
nearly so; leaves roundish, seldom subcordate, slightly 3-lobed or incised at
the summit, mostly 5-nerve'd from the base, unequally serrate, sparsely pubescent
on the veins beneath ; petioles destitute Of stipuliform appendages;
cymes (small and simple) pedunculate, terminating the very short lateral
branches; filaments much shorter than the corolla.—V. acerifolium, Bon-
gard ! veg. Sitcha^ l. c. p. 144, partly ?
Newfoundland, Pylaie ! &fc. White Mountains of New Hampshire, and
on Mansfield Mountain, Vermont, Mr. Tuckerman ! Sj-Mr, W. F. Macrae!
Probably also in Oregon and in Sitcha! June.—Shrub 2-3 feet high.
Leaves 1—2 inches m diameter, nearly glabrous, or more of less pubescent
on the veins of the lower surface (the ‘hairs riot stellate) ; the lobes Often Obscure.
Cymes seldom an inch in diameter. Anthers on very short filaments,
not exserted beyond the tube of the corolla. Fruit unknown.—For
specimens of this plant, we are indebted to the promising botanists who first
discovered it within the United Stales (Mr. Macrae of Montreal and Mr.
Tuckerman of Boston), who also directed our notice to the characters which
clearly distinguish them. We find from our notes upon L a Pylaie’s collection
in Newfoundland, that he had given to the same plant the appropriate
name which we have adopted. De Candolle, it will be seen, has referred P y laie
s plant to V. acerifolium. We have another Newfoundland specimen in a
small collection made by a British land-surveyor, and given to us by A. B.
Lambert, Esq. of London. The V. acerifolium of Bongard, veg. Sitcha,
Sfc. appears to belong to, or include this species : but if we mistake not, we
have a fragment of the true V. acerifolium from Oregon.—The leaves usually
turn blackish in drying.
§ 2, Cymes radiant; the marginal flowers much larger than (he othersT
and neutral.—Opulus, Tourn., DC.
A®' ^ ' Opulus (Linn.): nearly glabrous; leaves 3-lobed ; the lobes acuminate,
toothed; petioles glandular; cymes pedunculate; fruit ovate-globose*
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