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and the berries grow by pairs more or less distinctly 

 united together, each having 2 cells and many seeds. 



In Symphoria, formerly also included in Lonicera, 

 the minute calyx is only 4-toothed, and, as in the 

 preceding genus, furnished with 2 small bractes at 

 its base. The corolla is small, partly campanulate, 

 with a 5-cleft, nearly equal border. The berry is 

 crowned with the persistent calyx, and is divisible into 

 4 cells, with only 4 seeds, and 2 of the cells are 

 often abortive. The most singular and ornamental 

 shrub of this genus is the Shovvberry (»S. racemosa), 

 which in the autumn, appears loaded with a profusion 

 of snow-white or wax-like berries in clusters, adding 

 to the plant a singular beauty, of which the inconspicu- 

 ous flowers have not to boast. 



The Violet (Viola), of which the United States 

 possess more than twenty species, is the type of a 

 very distinct natural order, the Violace^. The genus 

 is characterized by having a deeply 5-cleft calyx, 

 produced or projecting at the base. The corolla 

 consists of 5 irregular petals, the upper petal con- 

 tinued backwards in the form of a spur. The anthers 

 are connivent, and slightly cohering. The capsule 

 is conic, of 1 cell, spontaneously divisible into 3 

 valves, the seeds adhering to the centre of the valves. 

 The species are very naturally divisible into 2 sec- 

 tions ; those which are stemless and produce their 

 flowers immediately from the root ; and those which 

 have stems and flowers in their axils or the junction 

 of the leaf and stem. 



