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ing from cultivation (Fig. 294). 



2. L. canadensis Bartr. American Fly Honeysuckle. A 

 straggling shrub 1-1. 5 m. high; twigs glabrous; buds short-ovoid 

 or nearly globose, glabrate, scales acute, the lower distinctly 

 shorter than the bud. Cool woods, Quebec to Saskatchewan, south 

 to North Carolina, Indiana and Iowa (Fig. 295). 



3. L. japonica Thunb. Japanese Honeysuckle. A half-evergreen 

 twining or trailing shrub with pubescent red-brown twigs; leaves 

 ovate, 2-8 cm. long, entire. Introduced from Asia, much planted, 

 especially along roadsides, now widely spreading and naturalized, 

 often a very aggressive weed (Fig. 296). 



4. L. sempervirens L. Trumpet Honeysuckle. High-climbing 

 glabrous shrub, more or less evergreen; twigs gray or straw- 

 colored; leaves elliptic, 3-8 cm. long, glaucous. Woods and thick- 

 ets, Florida to Texas, north to Maine, Ohio, Iowa, and Nebraska, 

 partly as an escape from cultivation northwards (Fig. 297). 



5. L. dioica L. Smooth Honeysuckle. A slightly climbing or 

 erect deciduous shrub, 1-3 m. high; bark grayish, peeling on old 

 stems; twigs glaucous and glabrous; buds ovoid, the scales ovate, 

 the lowest about as long as the buds. Rocky banks, Maine and 

 Quebec to Manitoba and British Columbia, south to Georgia, Mis- 

 souri, and Kansas (Fig. 298 ). 



SYMPHORICARPOS Duham. (Caprifoliaceae) 



Erect much branched deciduous shrubs. Twigs slender, round, 

 pubescent; pith small, round, brownish, continuous or excavated. 

 Buds small, solitary or multiple, ovoid-oblong, sessile. Leaf- 

 scars opposite, half-round, small and torn, partly connected by 

 ridges; bundle-trace 1, indistinct; stipule-scars none. Fruit a 

 berry persistent into winter. 



a. Pith excavated; fruit white l.S. albus 



a. Pith continuous; fruit red 2.S. orbiculatus 



1. S, albus ( L. ) Blake« Snowberry. (S. racemosus Michx. ) 

 Erect shrub 1-1. 5 m. high; twigs glabrate; buds 2 mm. long; fruit 

 globose, white, 5-10 mm. in diameter when fresh, withering but 

 persisting into winter. Rocky limestone slopes, Quebec to British 

 Columbia, south to Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and 

 Colorado (Fig. 299 ). 



2. S. orbiculatus Moench. Coralberry . Shrub to 2 m. high, 

 with slender upright pubescent branches; fruit subglobose, red. 



