2 CAPrvIFOLIACE.E. Linnjea. 



* * Ovary uilh a single cell and a solitary ovtile, or rarely ivith 3 cellsi two 

 ofiohich are empty. Seeds with little or no albumen. Fruit indehiscent. 



Stamens distinct. Seed suspended. 



Flowers not in involucrate heads. Albumen none. 74. Valerianace.e. 



Heads dense, involucrate. Seeds albuminous. 75. Dipsace.5;. 



Stamens syngenesious. Heads involucrate. 76. CoMPosiTiE. 



* * * Ovary with one or several cells, and nwnerous ovules. Stamens 

 inserted with the corolla. Fruit capsular. Seeds mostly albuminous. 



Corolla iiTegular. Stamens united. 77. Lobeliace.e. 



Corolla regular. Stamens mostly distinct. 78. Campanulace.e. 



Corolla regular, 5-parted. Anthers sessile. Subord. Pongatie^. 



Order LXXII. CAPRIFOLIACEiE. Juss.; DC. 



Tube of the calyx adherent to the ovary ; the limb 5- (rarely 4-) 

 cleft or toothed. Corolla tubular, or sometimes rotate ; the lobes im- 

 bricate in aestivation. Stamens equal in number and alternate with 

 the lobes of the corolla (or rarely one of them deficient), and inserted 

 into the tube : anthers introrse, versatile. Ovary 3- (rarely 4-5-) 

 celled, with 1-several pendulous ovules in each cell : style fiUform, 

 with a somewhat capitate stigma ; or wanting, and the oblong stigmas 

 3—5. Fruit baccate, fleshy, or sometimes dry (rarely capsular), often 

 1 -celled by abortion. Seeds anatropous. Embryo in the axis of 

 fleshy albumen. — Shrubs, or rarely herbaceous plants, with opposite 

 exstipulate leaves. Inflorescence various. 



Tribe I. LONICERE^. JR. Br. 



Corolla tubular ; the limb sometimes irregular. Style filiform. 

 Raphe on the outer side of the ovule ! 



Subtribe 1. CAPRiFOLia:. — Fruit baccate, or sometimes nearly dry. Tes- 

 ta of the seed crustaceous or coriaceous. 



1. LINN^A. Gi-onov. in Linn. gen. no. 11 A ; DC. j^rodr. A. p.ZAQ. 



Calyx-tube ovate ; the segments of the 5-parted limb lanceolate-subulate, 

 deciduous. Corolla turbinate-campanulate, somewhat equally 5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous, included, inserted towards the base of the corolla. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; two of the cells with several abortive ovules : the third with 

 a single fertile ovule suspended from the summit. Style slightly exserted : 

 stigma capitate. Fruit ovoid-globose, dry and indeliiscent, 3-celled (the two 

 sterile cells smaller), 1-seeded. — A creeping or trailing evergreen herb (indi- 

 genous to tlie northern parts of the old and new world), somewhat hairy ; 



