. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. CAPRIFOLIACEiEJ 131 4. VIBURNUM. Calyx 5-toothed; corolla 5-lobed,. regular; stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla; ovary 1-3-oelled; style short, 3-lobed; fruit a someyhat flattened 1-seeded drupe. Erect shrubs with simple leaves and usually white or greenish-white flowers in flat compound cymes. 1. V. Opulus, L., var. americana, (Mill.) Ait. High Bush Cranberry. Erect, 3-12 ft. high, smooth or nearly so; leaves 3-lobed, the lobes often toothed on the sides; cymes broad, the outside flowers neutral,
. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. CAPRIFOLIACEiEJ 131 4. VIBURNUM. Calyx 5-toothed; corolla 5-lobed,. regular; stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla; ovary 1-3-oelled; style short, 3-lobed; fruit a someyhat flattened 1-seeded drupe. Erect shrubs with simple leaves and usually white or greenish-white flowers in flat compound cymes. 1. V. Opulus, L., var. americana, (Mill.) Ait. High Bush Cranberry. Erect, 3-12 ft. high, smooth or nearly so; leaves 3-lobed, the lobes often toothed on the sides; cymes broad, the outside flowers neutral, with much enlarged co- rollas, pure white, the inner flowers perfect, greenish-white, with ex- serted stamens; fruit red, edible. Woods and thick- ets, Man. and Sask. 2. V. Lentago, L. Nanny Bebbt. A taU shrub, or some- ^'°- 74. - Vibernum opulus. times a small tree 25 ft. high; leaves ovate, very closely and sharply serrate, on winged petioles; flowers greenish-white in a broad sessile cyme; fruit black. Woods, par- ticularly river banks, Man. and westward. 3. V. paucifldrum, Raf. Squashberry. A straggling shrub 2-5 ft. high; leaves 3-lobed towards the apex, serrate, glabrous above, somewhat pubescent beneath; flowers white, all alike, in a few-flowered cyme; stamens included. Cold woods and mountain valleys, N. Sask., Alta., and 5. SAMBUCUS. Elder. Calyx 3-5-toothed, the teeth very small or obsolete; corolla 5-cleft, broadly spreading; stamens 5, alternate with the lobes of the ooroUa and inserted on its tube; stigmas 3; fruit a berry-hke drupe. Shrubs with pinnately compound leaves and numerous small flowers in a oompoUnd Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hales, B. J. (Benjamin Jones), 1868-1945. Toronto : Macmillan Company of Canada
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