16 CAPBIFOLIACE.E. Lonicera. 



Fl. i. 10G. X. ciliatum, Pursh, Fl. i. 161, excl. var., which is Symphoricarpos racemosits 

 according to Nutt. Vaccinium album, L. Spec. i. 350, specimen of Ivalm. Rocky moist 

 woods, New Brunswick to the Saskatchewan, and New England to Peim. and Michigan. 

 Flowering in spring, when the leaves are developing. 



L. TARTARICA, L., of the Old World, with rose-colored flowers, is commonly planted as an 

 ornamental shrub, and is becoming spontaneous in Canada. 



* * Bracts at the summit of the peduncle oblong to ovate or cordate and foliaceous: bractlets 

 conspicuous and accrescent. 



L. involucrata, BANKS. Pubescent, sometimes glabrate, 2 to 10 feet high : leaves from 

 ovate to oblong-lanceolate, from acutish to acuminate, 2 to 5 inches long, petioled : peduncles 

 an inch or two long, sometimes 3-flowered : corolla yellowish, viscid-pubescent, half-inch 

 or more long, tubular-fuunelform, with 5 short hardly unequal lobes : bractlets 4 or united 

 into 2, viscid-pubescent, at first short, obovate or obcordate, in fruit enlarging and enclosing 

 or surrounding the two globose dark-purple or black berries. Spreug. Syst. i. 759 ; DC. 

 Prodr. 1. c. 336; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1179; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray, Bot. 'Calif, i. 280. 

 L. Ledebourii, Esch. Mem. Acad. Petrop. (1826) x. 284; DC. 1. c. L. Mociniuna, DC. 

 1. c., probably from California, not Mexico. L. intermedia, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 

 154, fig. 47. Xylosteiun involucratum, Richards. App. Fraukl. Jourii. 6. Wooded grounds, 

 from Gaspe' Co., Lower Canada (Allen], and S. shore of Lake Superior northward, west to 

 Alaska, southward in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado aud Utah, and nearly throughout 

 California. 



2. CAPRIFOLIUM, DC. Flowers sessile in variously disposed terminal or 

 axillary clusters, commonly quasi-verticillate-capitate : corolla more or less elon- 

 gated : berries orange or red at maturity : steins climbing (twining) : upper leaves 

 usually combined into a connate-perfoliate disk. Caprifolium, Juss. 



* Limb of corolla almost regular or slightly bilabiate, very much shorter than the elongated 

 tube: stamens and style little exserted:' flowers nearly scentless. Pencil/ menum, Tourn. 



TKtJMPKT-HONEYSUCKLES. 



L. sempervirens, L. Evergreen only southward, glabrous : leaves oblong, glaucous or 

 glaucescent beneath, uppermost one or two pairs broadly connate : flowers in 2 to 5 more 

 or less separated whorls of 6 : the spike pedunculate : corolla scarlet-red varying to 

 crimson and yellow inside, or sometimes wholly yellow; the narrow tube inch or more long; 

 lobes sometimes almost equal, sometimes short-bilabiate, merely spreading, seldom over 

 2 lines lung. Spec. i. 173 (Ilerm. Hort. Lugd. 484, t. 483) ; Ait. Kew, i. 230; Walt. Car. 

 131 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1781, & 1753 ; Bot. Reg. t. 556 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 5 ; Meehrui, 

 Nat. Flowers, ser. 2, i. t. 45. L. Virginiana & L. Caroliniana, Marsh. Arbust. 80. Capri- 

 foliitin ai in/" rrirr-ns, Michx. Fl. 105; Pursh, Fl. i. 160; Ell. Sk. i. 271. Low grounds, Con- 

 necticut and Indiana to Florida and Texas. Commonly cultivated. (There are indications 

 of a nearly related species in Lower California.) 



L. ci.li.6sa, Pom. Leaves ovate or oval, glaucous beneath, usually ciliate, otherwise glabrous; 

 uppermost one or two pairs connate into an oval or orbicular disk : whorls of flowers single 

 and terminal, or rarely 2 or 3, and occasionally from the axils of the penultimate pair of 

 leaves, either sessile or short-peduncled : corolla glabrous or sparingly pilose-pubescent, 

 yellow r to crimson-scarlet, with thicker tube than the preceding, more ventricose-gibbous 

 below; limb slightly bilabiate; lower lobe 3 or 4 lines long. Diet. v. 612; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 333 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. Caprifolium ciliosiun, Pursh, Fl. i. 160. C. occidentale, Lindl. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1457. Lonicera occidentalis, Hook. Fl. i. 282. Rocky Mountains in Montana 

 to the coast of Brit. Columbia, the mountains of California and of Arizona. From moun- 

 tains near Chico, California, comes a form which, by nearly naked margin of leaves and 

 three-whorled pedunculate spike, makes transition to L. sempervirens. 



* * Limb of corolla ringent; the spreading or recurved lips comparatively large, and stamens 

 and style conspicuously exserted. Caprifolium, Tourn. TRUE HONEYSUCKLES. 



i Tube of corolla elongated (fully inch long), wholly glabrous inside, as are stamens and style: 

 flowers very fragrant: Atlantic species resembling the cultivated Italian or Sweet Honeysuckle 

 of Middle and S. Europe, L. Cupr-ifulium, L. 



