CAPRIFOLIACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY) 117 



and a slender, long exserted tube. Wet meadows, from early spring 

 to midsummer. 



H. purpurea. Smooth or somewhat pubescent, be- 

 coming 5 dm. high; leaves varying from roundish-ovate 

 to lanceolate; flowers in small terminal clusters; co- 

 rolla funnel-form, white to purplish. Woods. May to 

 September. 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY) 



Shrubs, rarely herbs, u'ith opposite leaves, epigy- 

 nous regular flowers, stamens as many as the lobes of 

 the tubular or rotate corolla, and inserted on its tube, 

 and fruit a berry, drupe, or pod. 



Houstonia 

 caerulea, 

 Bluets. 



DIERVILLA 



Low upright shrubs, with ovate or oblong, pointed, serrate leaves 

 and 3 several-flowered peduncles from the upper axils or ter- 

 minal. Corolla funnel-form, nearly regular, 5-lobed. Stamens 

 5. Pod slender, pointed, 2-celled. 



D. Lonicera, BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. Leaves oblong-ovate, taper- 

 pointed, petioled ; peduncles mostly 3-flowered ; flowers at first pale 



yellow, turning to 

 deep yellow, scarlet, 

 or crimson; pod 

 long-beaked. Dry 

 woods. June to 

 August. 



LONICERA 



Diervilla Lonicera, Bush honeysuckle. Erect Or climbing 



shrubs, with entire 



leaves, and often showy and fragrant flowers. Corolla tubular 

 or funnel-form, often gibbous at base, irregularly or almost 

 regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Berry several-seeded. 



L. canadensis, FLY HONEYSUCKLE. L T pright shrub, with straggling 

 branches; leaves ovate-oblong, often heart-shaped, petioled, ciliate; 



