594 CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
4. LINNAEA, L. 
A slender creeper, somewhat woody, with opposite rounded leaves on 
short leaf-stalks, evergreen. Flowers on thread-like flower-stems, which 
rise from the horizontal stem and fork into 2 secondary stems, each sup- 
porting 1 nodding, fragrant purple flower. Calyx teeth 5, slender. Co- 
rolla bell-shaped or funnel-formed, 5-lobed, the lobes equal or nearly so. 
Stamens 4, unequal. Ovary 3-celled, the fruit a dry pod with a single 
seed. Rarely there may be 4 or more secondary stems, with as many 
flowers. 
L. borealis, L. (See Frontispiece.) Twin FLower. Found in moist 
woods, or under pine trees. June-Aug. 
This little plant was a favorite with the great Linnaeus and it was 
dedicated to and named after him by Gronovius, a distinguished Dutch 
botanist and friend of Linnaeus. The flower of the European form of 
this little plant is more bell-shaped than that of the American form and 
the calyx of the former is longer. Hence the American form is regarded 
as a variety; var. Americana. 
5. SYMPHORICARPOS, Juss. 
Low shrubs, branching, with opposite oval leaves on short leaf-stalks, 
downy on under surface. Flowers small, white tinged with pink, in 
clusters in the leaf-axils or terminal. Calyx tube nearly globular. Bor- 
der of 5 teeth. Corolla tubular, expanding toward the throat, with 4 or 
5 more or less spreading lobes. Throat hairy or smooth Ovary of 4 
cells, two of which have single ovules, the other undeveloped. Fruit a 
globose fleshy berry. 
Fruit white. 
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1. §. racemosus, Michx. (Fig. 4, pl. 155.) SNowserry. Erect 
shrub, about 4 ft. high, with smooth slender branches. Leaves oval, 
blunt at each end. Flower clusters in the axils, few flowered. Corolla 
hairy in the throat. Berry white. Rocky places, river banks, ete. North- 
ern New England and Penna. June-Sept. 
2. §. pauciflorus, (Robbins) Britton. (Fig. 2, pl. 155.) Low Snow- 
BERRY. Plant diffusely branched, 6 to 10 in. high. Leaves small, 4 to 1 in. 
long, oval. Flowers usually 1 in the axils and 2 or 3 in the terminal 
cluster. Corolla hairy within. Fruit white. Rocky places, Vermont, 
Western New York and Penna, June-July. 
3. §. orbiculatus, Moench. (Fig. 3, pl. 155.) INDIAN CURRANT. 
CoraL Berry. (8S. vulgaris, Michx.) Shrub, 2 to 5 ft. high, purplish. 
Flowers in the axils of nearly all the leaves. Leaves 1 to 14 in. long. 
Fruit purplish red. Rocky places, along rivers. Southern part of our 
area, July. 
6. LONICERA, L. 
Climbing or erect shrubs, with opposite leaves, mostly with entire 
margins and with flowers in clusters of several or of two only. Calyx tube 
ovoid, teeth very short. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, irregularly 
