348 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



lobed, sometimes 2-Hpped. Stamens 5, rarely 4, inserted 

 on the corolla-tube and alternate with its lobes; anthers 

 versatile, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary in- 

 ferior, 1-6-celled; style slender; stigma capitate or 2-5- 

 lobed; ovules 1-several in each cavity. Fruit a berry, 

 drupe or capsule. 



Leaves pinnately compound; flowers rotate. 1. Sambucus. 

 Leaves simple. 



Berry white; corolla short campanulate. 2. Symphoricarpus. 



Berry red or black; corolla tubular, some- 

 what irregular. 3. Lonicera. 



1. SAMBUCUS L. Elder. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite pinnate leaves, serrate 

 or laciniate leaflets, and small white or pinkish flowers 

 in compound depressed or thyrsoid cymes. Calyx-tube 

 ovoid or turbinate, 3-5-toothed or 3-5-lobed. Corolla 

 rotate or slightly campanulate, regular, 3-5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla; filaments 

 slender. Ovary v3-5-celled; style 3-parted; ovules 1 in 

 each cell, pendulous. Drupe berry-like, containing 3-5 

 1-seeded nutlets. 



1. S. coerulea Raf. Bushy or arborescent, 2-5 m. high, the 

 largest specimens tree-like; leaves coriaceous, glabrous; leaflets 5-7, 

 lanceolate, ovate or obovate, mostly abruptly acuminate, serrate 

 except at the acuminate apex, 2.5-8 cm. long; inflorescence 5-rayed, 

 each ray again 1-3 times 5-rayed, forming a flat-topped cyme, 8-15 

 cm. broad; flowers white, 7 mm. broad; fruit blue beneath the white 

 bloom. { S. glauca Nutt.) 



Frequent on low hills and in washes in all the valleys. May- 

 June. 



2. SYMPHORICARPUS Juss. Snowberry. 



Shrubs with opposite deciduous short-petioled simple 

 leaves, and small white or pink perfect flowers in axil- 

 lary or terminal clusters. Calyx-tube nearly globular, 

 the limb 4-5-toothed. Corolla campanulate or salver- 

 shaped, regular or sometimes gibbous at the base, 4-5- 

 lobed. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the corolla. Ovary 

 4-celled, 2 of the cells containing several abortive ovules, 

 the others each with a single suspended ovule; style 

 filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit an ovoid or 

 globose 4-celled 2-seeded berry. 



