8 CAPRIFOLIACE^. Adorn. 



many as the lobes of tlie corolla, inserted on its throat. Ovary 4-celled ; two cells contain- 

 ing a few sterile ovules : alternate cells containing a single suspended ovule. Fruit a glo- 

 bose berry-like drupe, containing 2 small and seed-like bony smooth nutlets, each filled by a 

 seed ; sterile cells soon obliterated. 



7. LONICERA. Calyx with ovoid or globular tube and a short 5-toothed or truncate limb. 

 Corolla from campanulate to tubular, more or less gibbous at base ; the limb irregular and 

 commonly bilabiate (i), sometimes almost regular. Stamens 5, insei'ted on the tube of the 

 corolla. Ovary 2-3-celled, with several pendulous ovules in each cell, becoming a few- 

 several-seeded berry. 



8. DIERVILLA. Calyx Avith slender elongated tube, and 5 narrow persistent or tardily 

 deciduous lobes. Corolla fuunelform (or in large-flowered Japanese species more campanu- 

 late), inconspicuously gibbous at base; a globular epigynous gland within occupying the 

 gibbosity ; limb somewhat imequally or regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube 

 or tliroat of the corolla : anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit a narrow capsule, with at- 

 tenuate or rostrate summit, septicidally 2-valved, many-seeded. 



1. ADOXA, L. (From aSo^os, obscure or insignificant.) — Single species, 

 an insignificant small herb, of obscure affinity, now referred to the present order. 



A. Moschatellina, L. (Moschatel.) Glabrous and smooth : stem and once to thrice 

 teiiiately compound radical leaves a span high from a small fleshy-scaly rootstock : cauline 

 pair of leaves 3-parted or of 3 obovate and 3-cleft or parted leaflets : flowers small, greenish- 

 white or yellowish, 4 or 5 in a slender-pedunculate glomerule : corolla of the terminal one 

 4-5-cleft, of the others 5-6-cleft : drupe merely succulent: odor of plant musky. — Lam. 

 111. t. 320 ; Giertn. Fruct. t. 112 ; Schk. Handb. t. 109 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 648.— Subalpine, 

 under rocks, Arctic America to N. Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Rocky Mountains to Colo- 

 rado. (Eu., N. Asia, &c.) 



2. SAMBtJCUS, Tourn. Elder. (Classical' Latin name, said by some 

 to come from o-aixjSvKr], a stringed musical instrument.) — Suffrutescent to arbo- 

 rescent (in both Old and New World) ; with large pith to the vigorous shoots, 

 imparipinnate leaves, serrate leaflets, small flowers (usually white and odorous) 

 in broad cymes, and red or black berry-like fruits. Stems with warty bark. 

 Stipule-like appendages hardly any in our species ; but stipels not rare. Flowers 

 occasionally polygamous, produced in summer. 



* Compound cj-mes thyrsoid-paniculate ; the axis continued and sending off 3 or 4 pairs of lateral 

 primary branches, these mostly trifid and again bitid or tritid: pith of 3'ear-old shoots deep 

 yellow-brown: no obvious stipule-like nor stipel-hke appendages to the leaves : early flowering 

 and fruiting. 



S. racemosa, L. Stems 2 to 12 feet high, sometimes forming arborescent trunks : branches 

 spreading : leaves from pubescent to nearly glabrous : leaflets 5 to 7, ovate-oblong to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, thickly and sharply serrate : thyrsiform cyme ovate or oblong : 

 flowers dull white, drying brownish: fruit scarlet (has been seen white), oily : nutlets mi- 

 nutely punctate-rugulose. — Spec. i. 270; Jacq. Ic. Ear. i. t. 59; Hook. Fl. i. 279; Gray, 

 Bot. Calif, i. 278. S. pubens, Michx. Fl. i. 181 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 323; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 13 ; 

 Meehau, Nat. Flowers, ser. 2, ii. t. 21, flowers wrongly colored. S. pnbescenn, Pers. Syn. 

 i. 328; Pursh, Fl. i. 204. — Rocky banks and open woods, Nova Scotia to the mountains of 

 Georgia, in cool districts, west to Brit. Columbia and Alaska, and the Sierra Nevada, Cali- 

 fornia. (En., N. Asia.) 



Var. arborescens, Torr. & Gr.^y, 1. c. A form with leaflets closely serrate with 

 strong lanceolate teeth. — Washington Terr, to Sitka. 



Var. laciniata, Keen, witli leaflets divided into 3 to 5 linear-lanceolate 2-3-cleft or 

 lacinhite segments, occurs on soutli shore of L. Superior, Austin. 

 S. melanocarpa, Gray. Glabrous, or young leaves slightly pubescent : leaflets .5 to 7, 

 rarely 9 : cyme convex, as broad as high : flowers white : fruit black, witlunit l)loom : 

 otherwise much like preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 76. — Ravines of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains of Montana ( Watso7i) to those of E. Oregon ( Citsick-), south to the Wahsatch ( Watson), 



