14 CAPRIFOLIACE.E. Symphoncarpos. 



Mag. t. 2211; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 230; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. i. t. 19. S. clonyata and S. 

 heterophylla, Presl, ex DC. Rocky banks, Canada and N. New England to Penn., Sas- 

 katchewan, and west to Brit. Columbia and W. California, even to San Diego Co. 



Var. pauciflorus, ROBBINS. Low, more spreading: leaves commonly only inch 

 long : flowers solitary in the axils of upper ones, few and loosely spicate in the terminal 

 cluster. Gray, Man. & in Jour. Linn. Soc. 1. c. Mountains of Vermont and Penn., Niagara 

 Falls to "Wisconsin and northward, in Rocky Mountains south to Colorado, west to Oregon. 

 S. mollis, NUTT. Low, diffuse or decumbent, soft-pubescent, even velvety-tomentose, some- 

 times glabrate : leaves orbicular or broadly oval (half to full inch long) : flowers solitary or 

 in short clusters: corolla open-campauulate and with broad base (little over line high), 

 5-lobed above the middle, barely pubescent within: stamens and style included. Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. 1. c.; Gray, 1. c. & Bot. Calif, i. 279. S. cltuitus, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 1. c., a 

 glabrate form, from the char. Wooded hills, California, both in the Coast Ranges and the 

 Sierra Nevada, first coll by Coulter and NuttaH. 



Var. acutus. Not improbably a distinct species, but materials incomplete : leaves very 

 soft-tomentulose, oblong-lanceolate to oblong, acute at both ends or acuminate, sometimes 

 irregularly and acutely dentate. .S'. inollts? Torr. in Wilkes Pacif. E. Ex. xvii. 328. 

 Washington Terr, east of the Cascade Mountains, Pickcriiir/ $ Brackenridge, with the 

 narrower and entire leaves. Lassen's Peak, N. E. California, J\frs. Austin, with broader 

 leaves, commonly having 3 or 4 unequal serratures on each margin. 



2. Longer-flowered : corolla from oblong-campanulate to salverform, 5-lobed 

 only at summit : fruit (in the Mexican S. microphyllus flesh color, ex Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4975) in ours white : flowers mostly axillary : leaves small. 



* Style glabrous: corolla with broad and short lobes slightly or merely spreading. 



S. rotund.if61i.US, GRAY. Tomentulose to glabrate : leaves from orbicular to oblong- 

 elliptical, thickish (half to three-fourths inch long) : corolla elongated-campauulate, .3 or 4 

 linos long ; its tube pubescent within below the stamens, twice or thrice the length of the 

 lobes: nutlets of the drupe oval, equally broad and obtuse at both ends. PI. Wright, 

 ii. 06, . r our. Linn. Soc. 1. c., & Bot. Calif, i. 279. S. montanus, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 132, 

 partly. Mountains of New Mexico and adjacent Texas to those of Utah, N. W. Nevada, 

 adjacent California, and north to Mt. Pacldo, Washington Terr., Suksdorf: first coll. by 

 Wrlfjht and Bigelow. 



S. oreophilllS, GUAT. Glabrous or sometimes with soft pubescence : leaves oblong to 

 broadly oval, thinner: corolla more tubular or funnelform, 5 or G (rarely only 4) lines 

 long ; its tube almost glabrous within, 4 or 5 times the length of the lobes: nutlets of the 

 drupe oblong, flattened, attenuate and pointed at base. Jour. Linn. Soc. 1. c. 12, & Bot. 

 Calif. 1. c. S. montanus, Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. xxxiv. 249, not HBK. Mountains of 

 Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, to the Sierra Nevada, California, and E. Oregon ; first coll. 

 by Parry. 



* * Style bearded: corolla with oblong widely spreading lobes. 



S. longiflorus, GRAY, 1. c. Glabrous or rarely minutely pubescent, glaucescent : leaves 

 spatulate-oblong varying to oval, tliickish, small (quarter to half inch long) : corolla white, 

 salverform, slender; the tube 4 to 6 and lobes one and a half lines long, very glabrous 

 within: anthers linear, subsessile, half included in the throat : nutlets of the fruit oblong. 

 Mountains of S. Nevada and Utah, Miss Searls, Parry, Ward, Palmer, &c. Apparently 

 also S. W. Texas, Havard. 



7. LONlCERA, L. HONEYSUCKLE, WOODBINE. (Adam Lonitzer, Lat- 

 inized Lonicerus, a German herbalist.) Shrubs of the northern hemisphere, 

 some erect, others twining ; with normally entire leaves, occasionally on some 

 shoots sinuate-pinnatifid ; the flowers variously disposed, produced in spring or 

 early summer. 



1. XYLOSTEON, DC. Flowers in pairs (rarely threes) from the axils of the 

 leaves, the common peduncle bibracteate at summit, the ovaries of the two either 



