14 CAPEIFOLIACE/E. Symj^lioncarpos. 



Mag. t. 2211; Losld. Bot. Cab. t. 2.*30 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. i. t. 10. 5'. elnngatn and S. 

 heterophylla, Presl, ex DC — Rocky bank.s, Canada and N. New England to Penn., Sas- 

 katcliewan, and west to Brit. Columbiii and W. California, even to San Diego Co. 



Var. pauciflorus, IJobdin.?. Low, more spreading: leaves commonly only inch 

 long : flowers solitary iu the axils of upper ones, few and loosely spicate in the terminal 

 cluster. — Gray, Man. & in Jour. Liuu. Soc. 1. c. — Mountains of Vermont and Penn., Niagara 

 Falls to Wisconsin and northward, in Rocky Mountains south to Colorado, west to Oregon. 

 S. mollis, NuTT. Low, diffuse or decumbent, soft-pubescent, even velvety-tomentose, some- 

 times glabrate : leaves orbicular or broadly oval (half to full inch long) : flowers solitary or 

 in short clusters: corolla open-campanulate and with broad base (little over line high), 

 .Globed above the middle, barely pubescent within: stamens and style included. — Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. 1 c. ; Gray, 1. c. & Bot. Calif, i. 279. S. ciliatns, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 1. c, a 

 glabrate form, from the char. — Wooded hills, California, both in the Coast Eauges and the 

 Sierra Nevada, first coll by Coulter and Nuttall. 



Var. acutus. Not improbably a distinct species, but materials incomplete : leaves very 

 soft-tomcntulose, oblong-lanceolate to oblong, acute at both ends or acuminate, sometimes 

 irregularly and acutely dentate. — S. mollis ? Torr. in Wilkes Pacif. E. Ex. xvii. 328. — 

 Washington Terr, east of the Cascade Mountains, Pickering Sf Brackenridge, with the 

 narrower and entire leaves. Lassen's Peak, N. E. California, Mrs. Austin, with broader 

 leaves, commonly having 3 or 4 unequal serratures on each margin. 



§ 2. Longer-flowered : corolla from oblong-campanulate to salvcrform, 5-lobed 

 only at summit : fruit (in the Mexican S. microphyllus flesh color, ex Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4975) in ours white : flowers mostly axillary : leaves small. 



* Style glabrous: corolla with broad and short lobes slightly or merely spreading. 



S. rotundifolius, Gray. Tomentulose to glabrate : leaves fi-om orbicular to oblong- 

 elliptical, thickish (half to three-fourths inch long) : corolla elongated-cam panulate, 3 or 4 

 lines long ; its tube pubescent within below the stamens, twice or thrice the length of the 

 lobes : nutlets of the drupe oval, equally broad and obtuse at both ends. — PL Wright. 

 ii. 66, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1. c, & Bot. Calif, i. 279. S. montanus, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 132, 

 partly. — Mountains of New Mexico and adjacent Texas to those of Utah, N. W. Nevada, 

 adjacent California, and nortli to Mt. Paddo, Washington Terr., Suksdorf: first coll. \>y 

 Wright and Bigeloio. 



S. Oreophilus, Gray. Glabrous or sometimes with soft pubescence : leaves oblong to 

 broadly oval, thinner: corolla more tubular or funnelform, 5 or 6 (rarely only 4) lines 

 long ; its tube almost glabrous within, 4 or 5 times the length of the lobes : nutlets of the 

 drupe oblong, flattened, attenuate and pointed at base. — Jour. Linn. Soc. 1. c. 12, & Bot. 

 Calif. 1. c. .S'. montanus, Gra}' iu Am. Jour. Sci. xxxiv. 249, not PIBK. — Mountains of 

 Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, to the Sierra Nevada, California, and E. Oregon ; first coll. 

 by Parrij. 



* * Style bearded : corolla with oblong widely spreading lobes. 



S. longiflorus, Gray, 1. c. Glabrous or rarely minutely pubescent, glaucescent : leaves 

 spatulatc-oblong varying to oval, thickish, small (quarter to half inch long) : corolla white, 

 salverform, slender; the tube 4 to 6 and lobes one and a half lines long, very glabrous 

 within : anthers linear, subsessile, half included in the throat : nutlets of the fruit oblong. — 

 Mountains of S. Nevada and Utah, Miss Searls, Parry, Ward, Palmer, &c. Apparently 

 also S. W. Texas, Ilavard. 



7. LONiCERA, L. Honeysuckle, Woodbine. {Adam Lonitzer, Lat- 

 inized Lonicerus, a German herbalist.) — Shrubs of the northern hemisphere, 

 some erect, others twining ; with normally entire leaves, occasionally on some 

 shoots sinuate-pinnatifid ; the flowers variously disposed, produced in spring or 

 early summer. 



§ L Xylosteon, DC. Flowers in pairs (rarely threes) from the axils of the 

 leaves, the common peduncle bibracteatc at summit, the ovaries of the two either 



