8/4 FLORA. 



Fruit white ; style glabrous. 



Stamens and style included ; clusters usually few-flowered. 



Erect shrub; leaves 2.5-5 cm long! clusters several-flowered. 



i. S. racemosus. 



Diffuse shrub; leaves 1-2.5 cm - long; clusters i-2-flowered. 2. S. pauciflorus. 

 Stamens and style somewhat exserted; clusters many-flowered. 3. S.occidentalis. 

 Fruit red, style bearded. 4. S. Symphoricarpos . 



1. Symphoricarpos racemosus Michx. SNOWBERRY. (I. F. f. 3451.) An 

 erect shrub, glabrous or nearly so. Petioles about 4 mm. long; leaves oval, obtuse 

 at each end, sometimes a little pubescent beneath, entire, undulate, or those of 

 young shoots sometimes dentate; axillary clusters few-flowered, the terminal one 

 mostly interruptedly spicate; corolla campanulate, about 6 mm. long, slightly gib- 

 bous at the base, bearded within; style glabrous; berry snow-white, globose, loose- 

 ly cellular, 6-10 mm. in diameter. In rocky places and on river shores, N. S. to 

 Br. Col., Penn., Ky., S. Dak. and in Cal. Commonly planted and sometimes es- 

 caped from cultivation. June-Sept. 



2. Symphoricarpos pauciflorus (Robbins) Britton. Low SNOWBERRY. 

 (I. F. f. 3452.) A low spreading diffusely branched shrub, 1.5-2.5 dm. high. 

 Leaves broadly oval to orbiculate, entire, softly pubescent, especially along the 

 veins beneath; flowers 4-6 mm. long, solitary in the upper axils and 2 or 3 in the 

 terminal spike; corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, bearded within; berry oval when 

 young, becoming globose, white, 4-6 mm. in diameter. In rocky places, Ont. and 

 Vt. to N. Y., Penn., S. Dak., Br. Col., Neb. and Colo. June-July. 



3. Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. WOLFBERRY. (I. F. f. 3453.) 

 Similar to S. racemosus but stouter, with larger paler leaves 2-8 cm. long, more 

 or less pubescent beneath, entire, or often undulate-crenate; axillary clusters 

 spicate, many-flowered; corolla campanulate, 6 mm. long, lobed to beyond the 

 middle; berry nearly globular, white, 8-10 mm. in diameter. Mich, and Minn, to 

 Br. Col., Kans. and Colo. June-July. 



4. Symphoricarpos Symphoricarpos (L.) MacM. CORAL-BERRY. (I. F. f. 

 3454.) A shrub, 6-15 dm. high, the branches, purplish, usually pubescent. 

 Petioles 2-4 mm. long; leaves oval or ovate, entire or undulate, mostly obtuse at 

 each end, glabrous or nearly so above, usually soft-pubescent beneath, 2-4 cm. 

 long; clusters dense, many-flowered, at length spicate, shorter than the leaves; co- 

 rolla campanulate, sparingly pubescent within, pinkish, about 4 mm. long; stamens 

 included; berry purplish red, ovoid-globose, 3-4 mm. long. Along rivers and in 

 rocky places, N. J. and Penn. to western N. Y., Dak., Neb., Ga. and Tex. Also 

 sparingly escaped from cultivation farther east. July. 



6. LONICERA L. 



Erect or climbing shrubs, with opposite mostly entire leaves; flowers spicate, 

 capitate or geminate, usually somewhat irregular. Calyx-tube ovoid or nearly 

 globular, the limb slightly 5 -toothed. Corolla often gibbous at the base, the limb 

 5-lobed, more or less oblique, or 2-lipped. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the 

 corolla. Ovary 2-3 -celled; ovules numerous, pendulous; style slender, stigma 

 capitate. Berry fleshy, 2-3-celled or rarely I -celled, few-seeded. Seeds with 

 fleshy endosperm and a terete embryo. [Named for Adam Lonitzer, 1528-1586, a 

 German botanist] About 100 species, of the north temperate zone, a few in trop- 

 ical regions. Besides the following, some 8 others occur in western N. Am. 



* Climbing or trailing vines; flowers in heads, or interrupted spikes; upper leaves 



connate-perfoliate. 

 Corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip 4-lobed, the lower entire. 



Corolla glabrous within. I. L. Caprifolium. 



Corolla pubescent within. 



Leaves pubescent, at least beneath ; corolla yellow. 



Leaves pubescent on both sides, at least when young, ciliate ; corolla slightly 



gibbous at base. 2. L. hirsuta. 



Leaves glabrous above, pubescent beneath ; corolla-tube strongly gibbous at 



the base. 3. L. glaiicescens. 



Leaves glabrous on both sides, very glaucous beneath. 

 Corolla greenish yellow, the tube somewhat gibbous. 



Corolla-tube 6-10 mm. long; filaments hirsute at the base. 



4. L. dioica. 



