LiNNJEA. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 3 



with broadly oval sparingly crenate-toothed leaves, abruptly narrowed into a 

 petiole. Peduncles filiform, terminating the ascending branches, bearing 

 two pedicellate (minutely bibracteolate) nodding flowers. Corolla purplish- 

 rose-color or nearly white. 



L. borcalis (Gronov.) — Linn.! fl. Lapp. p. 214, t. 12, f. 4, Jl. Suec. ed. 2. 

 p. 219 (ic), cV spec. 2. p. 631 ; Fl. Dan. t. 3 ; Schkuhr, handb. t. 176 ; Lam. 

 ill. t. 536 ,- Ensl. hot. t. 1297 ,• Michx. ! fl. \.p. 87 ,- Wahl.fl. Lapp. p. 170, 

 t. 9,/. 3 ; Pursh! fl. 2. p. 413 ; Torr ! fl. I. p. 175 ; Bigel. ! fl. Bost. ed. 2. 

 p. 241 ,* Richards, apjjx. Frankl. journ. ed. 2. p. 25 ; DC. ! I. c; Hook. ! 

 {fl. Land. n. ser. t. \m) fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 285. 



Moist mossy woods, usually under the shade of evergreens, from the Arc- 

 tic Circle to the New England States! New York ! New Jersey! (in a cedar 

 swamp near New Durham, Mr. L. Menard,) and the mountains of Penn- 

 sylvania ; and from Newfoundland! and Labrador! to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains ! Oregon ! Unalaschka and Kotzebue's Sound ! June-July. — Stems 

 filiform, sending up numerous short branches. Leaves about half an inch 

 long, sparsely hispid. Flowers fragrant ; the slender pedicels, and particu- 

 larly the calyx-tube and the appressed bracts, clothed with glandular hairs. 

 Corolla hairy inside. — This unpretending and beautiful plant, so interesting 

 from its association with the name of Limueus, is as widely dispersed through- 

 out the northern portion of the new. as of the old world. 



2. SYMPHORICARPUS. Dill. Elth. f. 371. t. 278; DC.prodr. A. p. 338. 



Symphoria, Pers. 

 Calyx-tube globose ; the limb 4-5-toothed, persistent. Corolla infundibu- 

 liform or campanulate, somewhat regularly 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, in- 

 serted into the throat of the corolla. Ovary 4-celled ; two of the cells with 

 several abortive ovules ; the two others (ojiposite) each with a single fertile 

 ovule pendulous from the stimmit. Stigma capitate. Frui^ a globose or ovoid 

 berry, 4-celled ; two opposite cells 1-seeded, the others empty. Seeds bony. 

 — Small branching shrubs (natives of North America and Mexico) ; with 

 oval entire leaves on short petioles. Flowers sinali, bibracteolate, in short 

 axillary clusters or terminal spikes. Corolla rose-color or white. Berries 

 red or white. 



1. S. racemosus (Michx.) : spikes terminal, loose, interrupted, often some- 

 what leafy ; corolla campanulate, densely bearded inside ; style (glabrous) 

 and stamens included. — Michx. ! fl. I. p. 107 ; DC. ! I. c; Hook. ! fl. Bor.- 

 Am. \. 2J. 285. Symphoria racemosa, Pers. syn.. 1. p. 214 ; Pursh.! fl. 1. 

 p. 169 ; Bot. mag. t. 2211 ; Lodd. hot. cab. t. 230 ; Bart.fl. Amer. Sept. 1. 

 t. 19 ; Torr. ! fl. 1. p. 246. S. elongata & heterophylla, Prcsl, in herh. 

 Hienliel ex DC. 



Rocky banks of rivers (mostly on limestone). Upper Canada ! Western 

 part of New York ! and Western States ! to Oregon ! and the North- West 

 Coast! California, fide Hook. Sf Am. bot. Bcechey. Common also in cul- 

 tivation. July-Aug. — A nearly glabrous shrub, 2-3 feet high, often surcu- 

 lose. Leaves oval or oblong, 1-2 inches long, sometimes a little pubescent; 

 the margin often undulate. Spikes usually pedunculate ; the flowers oppo- 

 site. Corolla about 3 lines long, rose-color. Berries globose and roundish- 

 obovate, very white, opaque when ripe, often half an inch in diameter. — 

 Snow-berry. 



