170 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



8. Shrubs or some low trees, with small flowers in broad cymes, short and widely 

 ojjtn deeply o-loljul i-i t/iilnr i "i-uilti, 1 - 3 sessile stigmas, and berry-like fi'uit, 

 contuiiuuy 1-3 seeds / rniln r s, /-//. ftiu:s. Calyx-teeth on the ovury vtry 

 short or obscure : stamens 5. 



6. VIlU'KXr.M. Leaves simple. Fruit containing a single flat or fkttish stone. 



7. SAMISIX'l'S. Leave* pinnate, iiml the oblong- or lanceolate leaflets serrate. 



Fruit containing 3 seeds or rather small seed-like stones. 



1. LINNJEA, TWIN-FLOWER. (Named fur Linno-us.) Only ona 

 species, 



L. borealis. Mossy woods and cold bogs N. : creeping stems bearing 

 round-oval and sparingly creuate .-oinewhat hairy small leave.-, and in early 

 summer the sweet-scented (lowers ; corolla purple and whitish, hairy inside. 



2. TRIOSTEUM, FEVE1IWORT, HORSE-GENTIAN. (Greek for 



three bones, from the 3 bonv seeds or rather stones.) The root has been used 



in medicine, and t!ie seeds 'for eonx-e. In rich soil : fl. early summer. 



T. perfoliatum, the common species, is softly hairy, 2 - 4 high, with 

 oval leaves abruptly narrowed at base, and brownish-purple flowers. 



T. angUStifbiium, chiefly S., a smaller and bristly-hairy plant, with nar- 

 rower lanceolate leaves more tapering at base, and greenish or cream-colored 

 flowers. 



3. SYMPHORICARIPUS. (Name from the Greek, denotes croicded 

 fruits.) Wild on rocky banks, especially W. & S., and cult, for the orna- 

 mental insipid berries. Flowers white or slightly rose-color, produced all 

 summer. 



S. racemdsus, SNOWBERRY. Clusters of flowers in interrupted leafy 



spikes (rather than racemjs) terminating the branches; berries snow-white, in 

 autumn. Common in gardens. 



S. vulgaris, CORAL-BERRY, INDIAN CI.'URAXT. Short clusters of flowers 

 in the axils of most of the leaves ; berries small, dark red. 



4. LONICERA, HONEYSUCKLE. WOODBINE. (Named for an old 

 German herbalist, L<niit~<i\ latini/.ed Lonicerus'.) 



1. TRUE HONEYSUCKLES, with tiriniiuj stems (in one wild species slightly so). 



# (_'nntll<i. inth rfry long tnhe, and ~i s/mrt a/most regular lotn.i. 



L. sempervirens, TRTMI-KT II. Wild from New York S., and com- 

 monly cult. Leaves evergreen (as the name denotes) only at the S., thiekish, 

 pale beneath, the lower oblong, the uppermost pairs united round the stem ; 

 flowers scentless, in spiked whorls, 2' long, scarlet with yellow inside (al.-o 

 a yellow variety), produced all summer; berries red. 



# * Corolla strongly flipped; lower li/> nnrmir, upper one broad and 4-lvbtd. 

 -- The ~2 In 4 ii/i/Mrmoxf />f//V.< <ifl<rr* nni/ul round the stem in the form of an oval 

 or rounded disk r shullou- m/i, tin //n/r'/-.< xrx*ili~ in their axils, or partly in 

 leaflets spiked 7/r/.< In i/n/ul : liu'rii* rnf / tmrntje. 



++ European Honeysuckles, cultivated for omuinmf : ///(;>, jmrple and white or 

 tiiriinii/ yellowish inside, sweet-scented, in siummr. 



L. Caprif61ium, COMMON EUROPEAN II., has leaves smooth on both 

 sides, and flowers usually only in early summer. 



L. Etriisca, ITALIAN or 1'EnrETi'Ai. II., has the leaves downy beneath 



and blunter, and (lowers through the summer. 



<-* -* ]\'//il x/M-cifs, irit/i ti<m'rm smooth <nul itmrli/ scentless, except the first species, 

 in In/I- sprint/ t>r irli/ sniiiiitrr : /mi-ts smooth (except one variety) and 

 glaucous or irhitish In ninth. 



L. grata, SWKKT WILD II. Wild in Middle States and S., sometimes 

 cult. : leaves obovate ; corolla white with a pink or purple slender tube, fading 

 yellowish, fragrant. 





