4, Symphoricarpos (Dill.) Ludwig. 
Erect or trailing shrubs with opposite, simple,mostly entire leaves. 
Flowers in short dense racemes, each subtended by a pair of small connate 
bracts. Calyx 5-toothed, the limb very short, saucer=shaped. Corolla 
campanulate, regular or nearly so, (4-) S-lobed, the stamens included, 
inserted within the throat. Ovary wholly inferior, 4-chambered, only 
2 ovules developing. Fruit a white berry. 
QO Stems erect or ascending, never trailing and rooting 
fat the nodes; flowers 5-7 mm. long, slightly 
4 irregular, the lowermost petal broader, lightly 
gibbous toward the base, the throat densely hairy, 
more or less concealing the stamens 2.58. albus 
O Stems gracefully drooping and trailing, rooting at the 
nodes and there forming new offsets; flowers 4.5-5 mn. 
4 long, regular, the throat villous but not densely, 
the stamens nearly equal to the petals at anthesis f/f S. mollis. 
2. S. mollis Nutt. — ? Trailing shrubs 30-50 om. tall, 
the stems droopi racefull stoloniferous, rooting at the nodes and there 
forming new offsets, tracgable sametimes for several meters, forming dense 
mats, the bark mahogany color, shredding, the branchlets reddish, glabrous, 
soon becaning brown; buds 1.5 mm. long, bisecting the angles; leaves light 
green, tending to yellowish,mostly 1.5-3 cm. long, the members of each 
pair erect and more or less connivent, in sun-forms broadly ovate or oval, 
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obtuse or rounded at the apex rounded at the base, entire, or the leaves : 
of vigorous suckers irregularly lobed or coarsely toothed, the teeth blunt ’ ; 
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upper surface glabrous, the lower softly pubescent, paler, petioles 1-2 mm. 
long; racemes dense, 1-1.5 cm. long, terminal on short erect or ascending 
branchlets, the bracts 1-1.5 mm. or less long; sepals deltoid ,.5 mm. long; q 
corolla pink, 4.5-g mm. long the tube even, not saccate, the lobes ovate, : 
225-3 mme long, commonly somewhat longer than the tube » more or less connivent 
at anthesis, the throat villous but not densely so, the style visible, the 
stamens bending over the style but soon erect and subequal to the petals; 
fruit not seen. 
Frequent in the southern part of our region, abundant locally, sometimes { 
growing with S. albus. 
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