220 CAPRIFOLIACEvE. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



6. SYMPHORICARPOS, Dill. Snowberry. 



Calyx-teeth short, persistent. Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4 - 5-lobed, with 

 as many short stamens inserted into its throat. Ovary 4-celled, only 2 of the 

 cells with a fertile ovule ; the berry therefore 4-celled but only 2-seeded. Seeds 

 bony. — Low and branching upright shrubs, with oval short-petioled leaves, 

 which are downy underneath and entire, or wavy toothed or lobed on the young 

 shoots. Flowers white tinged with rose-color, in close short spikes or clusters. 

 (Name composed of av/Kpopew, to bear together, and Kapiros, fruit ; from the 

 clustered berries.) 



* Stijle bearded ; fruit red ; flowers all in short dense axillary clusters. 



1. S. vulgaris, !Michx. (Indian Currant. Coral-berry.) Flowers 

 in the axils of nearly all the leaves ; corolla sparingly bearded ; berries sm.all. 



— Rocky banks, western N. Y. and Peun. to the Dakotas, Neb., and Tex. July. 



* * Style glabrous ; fruit white : flowers in clusters or sometimes solitary. 



2. S. OCCidentalis, Hook. (Wolfberry.) Flowers in dense terminal 

 and axillary spikes : corolla much bearded within ; stamens and style pro- 

 truded. — Rocky ground, N. Mich, and 111., west to the Rocky Mts. — Flowers 

 larger and more funnel-form, and stamens longer, tlian in the next. 



3. S. racemosUS, Michx. (Snowberry.) Flowers in a loose and some- 

 what leafy interrupted spike at the end of the branches; corolla bearded inside , 

 berries large. — Rocky banks, N. New Eng. and Penn., to Minn, and westward ; 

 common in cultivation. June -Sept. Berries ripe in autumn. — Var. pauci- 

 fl6rus, Robbins. Low, diffusely branched and spreading; leaves smaller 

 (about 1' long), the spike reduced to one or two flowers in the uppermost axils. 



— Mountains of Vt. and Penn. to Minn., the Dakotas, and westward. 



7. L ONI CERA, L. Honeysuckle. Woodbine. 



Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, often gibbous at 

 the base, irregularly or almost regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, Ovary* 2-3- 

 celled. Berry several-seeded. — Leaves entire. Flowers often showy and 

 fragrant. (Named in honor of Adam Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus, a German 

 herbalist of the 16th century.) 



§ 1. XYL6STE0N. Upright bushy shrubs ; leaves all distinct ; peduncles axil- 

 lary , single, 2-flowered at the summit ; the two berries sometimes united into 

 one ; calyx-teeth not persistent. 



* Bracts (2 or sometimes 4) at the base of the ovaries minute. 



1. L. ciliata, Muhl. (Fly-Honeysuckle.) Branches straggling (3 - 5° 

 high) ; leaves oblong-ovate, often heart-shaped, petioled, thin, downy beneath ; 

 filiform peduncles shoHer than the leaves; corolla funuel-form, almost spurred 

 at the base (greenish-yellow, |' long), the lobes nearly equal ; berries separate 

 (red)'. — Rocky woods, N. Brunswick to Penn. and Minn. May. 



2. L. cserillea, L. (Mountain F.) Low (1-2° high); branches up- 

 right; leaves oval, downy when young; peduncles very short; bracts awl-shaped, 

 longer than the ovaries, which are united into one (blue) berry ; flowers yellowish. 



— Mountain woods and bogs, Lab. to R. I., Minn., and northward. May. (Eu.) 



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