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 Symphoria racemosa. Snow-Berry. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Germen 4-loculare : loculis 2, polyspermis, sterilibus ; 2 

 monospermis, fertilibus. Bacca coronata. Cor. tubulosa, 

 brevis, 5-fida, subaequalis. Cal. 5-dentatus. Brown. 

 Ijonicerce sp. Lin. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Symphoria racemosa; racemo interrupto subterminali, co- 

 rolla intus barbata. 



Symphoria racemosa; racemo terminali, corolla intus bar- 

 bata. Per soon Syn. 1. p. 214. Michaux Flor. Bor. 

 Amer. \.p. 107. Pursh Fl. Amer-sept. 1. p. 162. 



Symphoria racemosa. Lodd. Cab. 230. Nuttall Gen. PL 

 Amer. 1. p. 139. 



Caprifolium, Periclymenum, Cham^cerasus, Xylos- 

 teon and Diervilla of Tournefort, as well as Svmphori- 

 carpos of Dillenius were united by Linn^us into one genus, 

 under the name of Lonicera. Later botanists, however, 

 seem generally to concur in restoring- the three last to the 

 rank of distinct genera. 



Our present plant belongs to Dillenius's genus Symphori- 

 carpos, changed by Persoon to Symphoria; a genus esta- 

 blished from Symphoria conglomerata, the Lonicera Sym- 

 phoricarpos of Linnaeus. 



Symphoria racemosa was first mentioned by Michaux, 

 and a figure of it has been lately published by Messrs. Lod- 

 diges and Sons in their Botanical Cabinet, where it is stated, 

 that they first received it in the spring of 1818, from Mr 

 Robert Carr. 



Descr. A low bushy shrub ; bark of the branches bnghtisli 

 brown. Leaves opposite, round-ovate with a mucro, mostly 

 quite entire, but on the lower part of the shrub sometimes 



irregularly 



