HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 221 



8. LONICERA L. Honeysuckle. 



Corolla ,'5 cm. long, its limb slightly bilabiate; lobes short; leaves glabrous except the 



ciliate margins. 1. L. ciliosa. 



Corolla 2 cm. long, decidedlj' bilabiate; leaves hairy beneath. 2. L. glaucescens. 



9. DIERVILLA (Toxirn.) Mill. Bu.sh Honeysuckle. i. D. Dien-Ula. 



F.\iiiLY 124. ADOXACEAE. Moschatel F.\mily. 

 1. ADOXA L. MoscHATEL, Musk-root. l. a. Moschatellina. 



Family 125. LORANTHACEAE. Mistletoe Family. 



Anthers 2-celIed, opening by an apical pore or sUt; berry globose; both staminate and 

 pistillate flowers usually 3-merous. 1. Phoradexdrox. 



Anthers 1-celIed, opening by a transverse circular slit; berry compressed; staminate 

 flowers .3-merous, the pistUlate ones 2-nierous. 2. Razoumofsky.'V. 



1. PHORADENDRON Nutt. American Mistletoe. 



Leaves reduced to scales; pistillate flowers 2 on each internode. 



Canescent; twigs terete; spike several-jointed. 1. P. californicum. 



Glabrous; twigs bluntly 4-angled; spike 1-jointed. 2. P. juniperinum. 



Leaves with well developed blades; pistillate flowers 6 or more on each internode. 



3. P. Cockerellii. 



2. RAZOUMOFSKYA Hoffm. 



staminate flowers aU or nearly all at the ends of the branches, on distinct pedicels, dichoto- 



mously paniculate. 1. R. americana. 



Staminate flowers nearly all a.xillary, forming simple or compound spikes. 

 Branches 1-2 mm. in diameter. 



Plant yellowish green; accessory branchlets of fruiting specimens flower-bearing. 

 Spikes short, .3-5-flowered ; stems bluntly angled. 



Rather simple, 1-3 cm. high; leaves and sepals obtusish, not distinctly 



keeled. 2. R. Doiiglasii. 



Stout, 3-5 cm. high, branched ; leaves and sepals decidedly acute and keeled. 



3. R. laricis. 

 Spikes many-flowered; stems sharply angled. 4. R. cyanocarpa. 



Plant greenish brown; accessory branches merely leaf-bearing. .5. R. divaricala. 

 Branches 3-4 mm. in diameter. 6. R. cryptopocia. 



Family 126. SANTALACEAE. Sandalwood Family. 



1. COMANDRA Nutt. Bastard Toadfl.o:. 



Flowers in corymbose cymes at the end of the stem; leaves sessile; style slender. 



Leaves all linear, spreading or reflexed; hypantlilum in anthesis cylindrical, constricted 

 above. 1. C. linearis. 



Leaves at least those of the stem lanceolate, those of the branches narrower; hypan- 

 tlilum in anthesis tui-binate, becoming constricted later. 2. C. pallida. 

 Cymes 1-3-flowered on lateral peduncles; leaves short-petioled; style short. 3. C. lirida. 



Family 127. VALERIANACEAE. Valeman Family. 



Sepals minute or wanting; fruit 3-celled, but only one seed-bearing. 



Fruit laterally winged; stem not dicliotomous. 1. Plectritis. 



Fruit wingless; stem dichotomous. 2. V.\leriaxell.\ 



Calyx-lobes inroUed ia flower, in fruit expanding and pappus-hke; fruit strictly 1-ceUed. 



3. Valerl\n.\. 



1. PLECTRITIS DC. Corn Salad. i. p. macwptera. 



2. VALERIANELLA (Tourn.) Hill. Corn Salad, Lamb's Lettuce. 



1. V. Locusta. 



3. VALERIANA (Tourn.) L. Valerian, Tobacco-root. 



Leaves thick, the lower entire or with linear entire divisions, the veining almost parallel ; 

 plants with tliick fleshy taproots. 

 Fruit and ovaries pubescent; bracts in the staminate plant linear-lanceolate. 



1. V. edulis. 

 Fruit glabrous. 



Fruit scurfy, muricate or rugose. 



Basal leaves oblanceolate; fruit broadly ovate; corolla of the staminate plant 



2.5-3 mm. wide; root thick. 2. V. trachycarpa. 



Basal leaves narrowly Unear-oblanceolate; fruit narrowly ovate; corolla >' 

 staminate flowers less than 2 mm. wide; root rather slender. 



3. V. furfurescens. 



