CAPRIFOLIACE^. ]70 TRIOSTEOM. 



found in woods, 3 — 4 feet high. Leaves thin, oblong-ovate, often cordate at 

 the base, somewhat ciliate on the margin, and villose beneate when young. 

 Flowers pale straw-yellow, in pairs at the top ot the peduncle, with an obtuse 

 spur turned outwards at the base. Berries ovoid, red, in pairs, but not con- 

 nate, 3 — 5-seeded. June. Fly Honeysuckle. 



9. L. OBLONGIFO'LIA. Hook. Xylosteum oblongifolium. Goldie. 



Berries connate, or united into one, globose, purple ; leaves oblong oi oval, 

 velvety-pubescent beneath ; coro//rt deeply bilabiate, gibbous at base; pedun- 

 cles erect, long, filiform. A shrub 3—4 feet high, growing in swamps. Leaves 

 on short stalks. Peduncles about as long as the leaves. Corolla hairy, green- 

 ish yellow outside, purplish inside, the lower lip nearly entire, the upper one 

 4-lobed, erect. Berries marked with the remains of the two calyxes. Jn. 



10. L. CCF.RU'lEA. L. Xylosteum villosum. B. X. Solonis. £a. 



Berries connate or united into one, deep blue ; leaves oval, obtuse, villose on 

 both sides, becoming nearly smooth ; peduncles short, refiexed in fruit; hracts 

 lomrer than tiie ovaries. A small shrub, in rocky hills and woods. Stem 2 

 feet°high, with small leaves and pairs of small, yellow flowers, which are long- 

 er than their peduncles. Leaves ovate, oval, obovate and oblong, ending ab- 

 ruptly. May. June. 



2. DIERVI'LLA. 



Calyx tube oblong, limb 5-cleft ; corolla twice as long, fun- 

 nel-shaped ; the limb 5-cleft, and nearly regular; stamens 5; 

 capsular fruit 2-celled, many-seeded. 



Dierville, a French surgeon, sent this shrub from Acadia, where he was 

 traveling, to Tournefort, who named it after him. Shrubs, with ovate or ob- 

 long, serrate, deciduous leaves. Flowers bibracteate. Capsule apparently 4- 

 celled, from the projecting placentaj. 



D. TRI'fIDA. Mamch. D. Tournefortii. Mx. D. Canadensis. Mh. 



Leaves on short stalks, ovate-acuminate; capsule attenuate above; racemes 

 axillary and terminal, I— 3-flowered. A shrub, 2 feet high, branching, with 

 greenish yellow, somewhat irregular flowers, in small clusters. Stamens and 

 style much exserted. Stigma capitate. Jn. Busk Honeysuckle. 



3 . T R I O' S T E U M . 



Calyx tube ovoid, limb 5-parted, segments linear, nearly as 

 long a"s the corolla; corolla tubular, gibbous at base, limb 5- 



,, lobed, subequal ; stamens 5, included ; stigma capitate, lobed ; 



\ fruit drupaceous, crowned with the calyx, 3-celled, o-seeded ; 

 seeds ribbed, bony. 



Gr. rpui, three, oa-nov, a bone ; on account of its 3, hard, bony seeds. 

 Perennial herbs (rarely suft'ruticose). 



T. perfolia'tum. 



Leaves oval acuminate, connate ; flowers axillary, veiticillate or clustered. 

 A coarse, unattractive plant, growing in rooky woods. Stem simple, stout, 



