216 CAPRIFOLIACE^. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



Division TI. GAMOPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



Floral envelopes consisting of both calyx and corolla, the latter 

 composed of more or less united petals, that is, gamopetalous.* 



Order 51. CAPRIFOLIACE^E. (Honeysuckle Family.) 



Shi'ubs, or rarely herbs, icith opposite leaves, no (genuine) stipules, the 

 calyx-tube coherent with the 2-b-celled ovary, the stamens as many as (one 

 fewer in Linnsea, doubled in Adoxa) the lobes of the tubular or rotate 

 corolla, and inserted on its tube. — Fruit a berry, drupe, or pod, 1 - several- 

 seeded. Seeds anatropous, with small embryo in fleshy albumen. 



Tribe I. SAMBUCE^. Corolla wheel-shaped or urn-shaped, regular, deeply 5-Iobed. 

 Stigmas 3-5, sessile or nearly so. Inflorescence terminal and cyiuose. 

 * Dwarf herb, with stamens doubled and tlowei-s in a capitate cluster. 



1. Adoxa. Fruit a dry greoiish drupe, with 3-5 cartilaginous nutlets. Cauline leaves a 



single pair and tenia te. 

 * * Shrubs, with stamens as many as corolla-lobes and flowers in broad compound cymes. 



2. Sanibucus. Fruit berry-like, containing three small seed-like nutlets. Leaves pinnate. 



3. Viburnum. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe, with a compressed stone. Leaves simple. 

 Tribe II. I.ONICERE^. Corolla tubular, often irregular, sometimes 2-lipped. Style 



slender ; stigma capitate. 



* Herbs, with axillary flowers. 



4. Triosteum. Stamens 5. Corolla gibbous at the base. Fruit a 3 celled drupe. Erect; 



flowers sessile. 



5. Liinnaea. Stamens 4, one fewer than the lobes of the corolla. Fruit dry^ 3-celled, but 



only 1-seeded. Creeping, with long-pedunculate twin flowers. 



* * Erect or climbing shrubs, with scaly winter-buds. 



6. Symphoricarpos. Stamens 4 or 5, as many as the lobes of the bell-shaped regular 



corolla. Berry 4-celled, but only 2-seeded ; two of the cells sterile. 



7. liOiiicera. Stamens 5, as many as the lobes of the tubular and more or less irregular 



coroUa. Berry several-seeded ; all the 2 or 3 cells fertile. 



8. Diervilla. Stamens 5. Corolla fiinnel-form, nearly regular. Pod 2-celled, 2-valved, 



many-seeded , slender. 



1. ADOXA, L. MOSCHATKL. 



Calyx-tube reaching not quite to the summit of the 3 - 5-ceUed ovary ; hmb 

 of 3 or more teeth. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4 - 6-cleft, bearing at each sinus a 

 pair of separate or partly united stamens with 1-celled authers. Style 3-5- 

 parted. Dry drupe greenish, with 3-5 cartilaginous nutlets. — A dwarf per- 

 ennial herb with scaly rootstock and ternately divided leaves, the cauline a 

 single pair. An anomalous genus. (From &5o^os, obscure or insignificant.) 



* In certain families, as in Ericaceae, etc., the petals in some genera are nearly or quite 

 separate. In Compositse and some others, the calyx is mostly reduced to a pappus, or a mere 

 border, or even to nothing more than a covering of the surface of the ovary. The student 

 might look for these in the first or the third division ; but the artificial analysis prefixed to 

 the volume provides for such anomalies, and will lead him to the proper order. 



