1274 CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
5. PHENIANTHUS Raf. Woody vines or diffuse shrubs. Leaf-blades 
entire, the upper pairs of bracts often connate-perfoliate. Flowers in sessile 
xilary clusters. Sepals very small.  Corolla-elon- 7 
gate, bright-colored: tube slightly ventricose near A S 
he base. Berries subglobose, usually clustered.— 
About 6 species, mostly North American. 
1. P. sempervirens (L.) R Twining vine, the 
twigs glabrous: leaf-blades een or broad, mostly 
2-9 em. long, glaucous and often ease beneath: 
sepals very a corolla 3.5—4.5 long, eae 
red without, yellow within, or nete ENT 
angie: lobes m ostly 4—5 mm. long, obtuse, the lower lobe often nar- 
rower than the upper lobes: filaments 4—4.5 mm. long: berry red or orange. 
[Lonicera sempervirens L.|-—(TRUMPET-HONEYSUCKLE. CORAL-HONEYSUCKLE, 
WooDBINÉ.)—Thiekets, woods, swamps, and fencerows, various provinces, Fla. 
to Tex., Nebr., and Me. 
6. XYLOSTEON B. Juss. Erect shrubs. Leaf-blades entire. Flowers in 
pairs at the end of an axillary AGE. pa ae by 2 minute bracts and 
2 bractlets, the hypanthia more or less united. Sepals minute or obsolete 
Corolla relatively short: tube e a at the i Berry distinct or didymous. 
out a dozen species, in the north temperate zone.—HONEYSUCELE. 
Corolla funnelform, the lobes shorter than the tube. 1. X. ciliatum. 
Corolla 2-lipped, the lobes as lo ong as the tube. 2. X. fragrantissimum. 
X. ciliatum (Muhl) Pursh. Shrub 0.5-2 m. tall: leaf-blades thin, ovate 
or r oval- -ovate, 3-8 em ee ciliate: corolla yellowish, about 1.5 cm. long; t tube 
preminently gibbous at the base: stamens and styleq 
in uel or style fed berry ovoid or oval-ovoid, | w MZ 
—10 long, red.—(FLYv-HONEYSU UCKLE. )—Ro ocky (2 
woods, 1 Blue Ridge and more northern provinces, N. C. 
to Minn. and N. pr. 
a - dragrastissinum Lindl. & Im dieu 
obovate, 15d. em. long, pale beneath: eor olla white 
» a 1 em. I 
base: berry 6- Roadsides | Es 
and about Eds pie in EU Piedmont of Ga. Nat. of China.— 
Wint.-spr. 
7. NINTOOA Sweet. Woody vines. Leaf-blades entire, or pinnatifid on 
young shoots. Flowers in pairs terminating axillary peduncles, accompanied by 
e h 
erries distinct—Four or 5 species, Asiatic. 
1. N. japonica ue, Sweet. Diffusely creeping 
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