SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS LONICERA. 69 
and very variable. Many varieties and forms have been 
distinguished, but they are all connected by intermediate 
forms and therefore not always easily separated. The 
following account of them does not pretend to be a definite 
arrangement nor an entirely satisfactory one. 
A. Winter buds more or less spreading and the branches diverging 
generally at an angle of more than 45°; tube of the generally fun- 
nel-form corolla usually longer than limb, mostly pilose with- 
out; stipular appendages and accessory buds often present, 
B. Leaves glabrous or only pubescent when young; branches 
glabrous or nearly so, rarely finely tomentulose. 
C. Leaves usually slightly pubescent, rather thin. 
var. GLABRECENS, Ruprecht, Beitr. Pflanzenk. Russ. 
Reich. 2:37 (1845), nom. nud. — Herder, Bull. Soc. 
Nat. Mosc. 371: 205 (1864); ld. c. 531: 20 (1878). — 
Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 1: 265 (1889). 
L. coerulea a, Turczaninow, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 18: 305 (1845). — 
Kirillow, Lonic. Russ. Reich. 53 (1849). — Wolf, Isv. St. Peterb. 
Lesn. Inst. 3 : 14 (1898). 
L. coerulea glabriuscula, Regel, Russk. Dendr. 143 (1873). 
This variety is usually considered as the type, and 
common in Europe and western Asia. Here belong the 
following forms: 
f. praErcox, Lavallé, Arb. Segrez. 142 (1877), nom. 
nud.— Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 1:265 (1889). 
L. praecox, hort., ex K. Koch, Dendr. 21330 (1872). 
Low spreading shrub, early leafing ; leaves oval to ovate; 
fruit subglobose. 
f. SPHAEROCARPA, Regel, Russk. Dendr. 144 (1873). 
With oval fruits. 
f. etonosa, Regel, /. c. 
L. coerulea sphaerocarpa, Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 13226 (1889), 
not Regel. 
With subglobose fruits. 
