590 CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
Famity II]—CAPRIFOLIACEAE. MHonrystcxite FAmMILy 
Plants very closely related to the Family Rubiaceae, the leaves 
in this last being usually accompanied by minute stipules or by 
leaf-like stipules, the Honeysuckle family nearly always destitute 
of stipules. These plants are nearly always woody. In our area 
there are but two exceptions, one of which is the extremely in- 
teresting creeper, the Linnaea, the other, Triosteum. The leaves 
are opposite. Flowers have both stamens and pistils and are regu- 
lar or quite irregular in form. The corolla is composed of united 
petals and takes different forms, but the border is always 5-lobed. 
The stamens are 5, or rarely 4, inserted in the tube of the corolla. 
The ovary is, in part at least, enveloped in the calyx, which is 
adherent to it, and has from 1 to 5 cells, each with 1 or more 
ovules suspended from the central column. The fruit is a berry, 
a drupe, a nutty fruit or rarely a capsule. 
Leaves composed of leaflets ranged each side of the leaf-stalk 
with can ‘odd leaflet... 4 do, ee ee 
Leaves not compound. 
Flowers regular or only slightly irregular. 
Shrubs or trees. 
Corolla flat, circular; fruit a one-seeded 
drupe... 2a) . . » Wibunmimag 
Corolla tubular or bell- cae fruit a one- 
seeded berry . . . .  Symphoricarpos 
Herbs with regular or slightly 2-lipped corollas. 
Erect plant leaves without leaf-stalks 
Lathes . . . criestenm 
Creeping vine, Einetnat woody, leaves with 
leaf-stalks ..: .' « « -» © 5, ee 
Flowers irregular. 
Woody vines. 1. G vs .« «| s S.C 
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Shrubs, with opposite compound leaves, the leaflets arranged on each 
side of the leaf stem in pairs, with an odd one at each end and with com- 
pound clusters of small white flowers. Calyx ovoid, the lobes small or 
absent. Corolla round, flat, 3- to 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted at the 
base of the corolla. Drupe, berry-like, juicy, containing 3 to 5 one- 
seeded nutlets. 
Flower cluster flat, umbel-like . . . . - © «© «© «© « «© « Se Canadensis 
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