344 CAPRIFOLIACE^. 



1. V. ellipticum, Hook. Fl. i. 280 (1833); Gray, Syn. Fl. i. 10. Stems 

 2—5 ft. high, with glabrous pale brown bark: leaves from round-oval to 

 elliptic-oblong, rounded at both ends, dentate above the middle, 2 in. 

 long, subcoriaceous, 3— 5-nerved from the base, the nerves ascending or 

 parallel: corolla 4—5 lines wide: stone of the bluish black fr. deeply and 

 broadly sulcate on both faces, the furrow of one face divided by a median 

 ridge. — In mountain woods, from Placer and Mendocino counties north- 

 ward. 



3. OBOLARIi, Siegesheck (Twin-Fdower. Linn^a).' Trailing ever- 

 green shrub, with erect long and slender 2-flowered peduncles. Calyx 

 with limb 5-parted into subulate-lanceolate lobes, constricted above the 

 globular tube, deciduous from the fruit. Corolla campanulate-funnel- 

 form, not gibbous at base, almost equally 4-lobed. Stamens 4, in unequal 

 pairs, included. Ovary 3-celled, becoming a dry indehiscent 1-seeded 

 fruit. 



1. 0. borealis, O. Ktze. Eev. Gen. i. 275 (1891); Linn. Sp. PI. li. 631 



(1753), under Linnxa. Prostrate branches slender, pubescent: leaves 

 obovate, crenately few-toothed, %—1. in. long, on very short petioles: 

 filiform peduncles 2—6 in. high, with 2 bracts near the summit, and from 

 the axil of each a rose-colored flower nodding on a filiform pedicel; 

 pedicels bibracteolate near the summit: corolla % in. long or more, very 

 fragrant.— In woods of pine and spruce, from Humboldt and Plumas 

 counties northward. July. 



4. SYMPHORICARPOS, DUhnins (Snowbeert). Low branching 

 shrubs, erect or spreading, never climbing. Leaves small, membran- 

 aceous, mostly entire. Flowers small, nearly or quite regular, axillary 

 and terminal, solitary or in dense spicate clusters, white or pinkish. 

 Calyx with globular or oblong tube and 4— 5-toothed persistent limb. 

 Corolla either short-campanulate and slightly gibbous, or salverform and 

 regular, 4— 5-lobed. Stamens inserted on the throat of the corolla and 

 as many as its lobes. Ovary 4-celled; 2 cells containing a few sterile 

 ovules, the other 2 each with a single suspended ovule. Fruit globose, 

 berry-like, containing two seed-like smooth 1-seeded nutlets. 



* Floiver shurl, nrceolate- or ope)i-campanulate, only 2 — S lines long. 



1. S. racemosus, Michx. Fl. i. 107 (1803); Bot. Mag. t. 2211; Bart. Fl. 

 Am. Sept. i. 1. 19. Usually 3—4 ft. high, slender, with spreading branches: 

 leaves round-oval to oblong, 1 in. long, glabrous above, pubescent along 

 the veins beneath: axillary clusters mostly few-flowered, the lowest 

 1-flowered: corolla reddish or pinkish, 2 lines long, slightly gibbous, 

 moderately villous within, cleft above the middle: fr. H~}i in. thick, 

 subglobose, snow-white.— -On banks of streams in shady places almost 

 everywhere in the Coast Range; more slender than the eastern type, 



