926 Caprifoliaceae. — Valerianaceae. 
more sessile glands at the top, and 2 or more linear fringe-like 
appendages at the base. Flower-cymes 5—8 cm in diameter, outer 
flowers large, attaining often near 2,5 cm in diameter, but, having 
neither stamens nor styles, they are perfectly barren. Berries glo- 
bular, of a blackish red. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Often cultivated in gardens, sometimes subspontaneous. 
Also known from Europe, Russia Asia extending to the Arctic regions. 
524. (3.) Lonicera Linn. 
Shrubs, or tall climbers, with opposite entire leaves, and white, 
yellowish, pink, or red flowers, two or more together, in terminal or 
axillary heads. Calyx with a border of 5 small teeth. Corolla with 
a more or less elongated tube, and an oblique limb either 5-lobed, 
or in two lips, the upper one 4-lobed, the lower entire. Stamens 5. 
Style filiform, with a capitate stigma. Ovary 2- or 3-celled, with 
several ovules in each cell. Berry small, with one or very few seeds. 
A considerable genus, spread over the temperate regions of Europe, 
Asia, and North America. It is really a natural one, and very readily. 
distinguished from the adjoining genera by the flowers, although the two 
principal groups into which it is separable, the climbing true Honeysuckles 
and the erect shrubby fly Honeysuckles, are rather dissimilar in aspect. 
1289. Lonicera Caprifolium L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 246. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. If, p. 4. — Jacq. Ic. Austr., tab. 357. — A climber, 
scrambling over bushes and trees to a considerable height, quite 
glabrous; the leaves ovate or oblong, glabrous on both sides, the 
uppermost pairs in the flowering branches united at the base, and 
the heads of flowers closely sessile within a pair of leaves united 
into a single broadly rounded perfoliate leaf; or the flowers are 
sometimes separated into two tiers, with a perfoliate leaf under each. 
Berrics small and red. — Flow. January to March. 
N. v. Siut, in gardens and subspontaneous. 
Also known from South-Hastern Europe and Western Asia. 
108. Valerianaceae. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or occasionally unisexual. Calyx-tube 
adnate to the ovary; limb persistent and membranous or coriaceous 
or deciduous and resembling feathery pappus, equal or unequal. 
Corolla gamopetalous, tubular, inserted on an epigynous disk, regular 
or irregular, sometimes calcarate at the base; lobes 3—5, usually 5, 
obtuse, imbricated (cochlear) in aestivation. Stamens 1—4, usually 
3—4, the posterior one and often one of the lateral ones wanting, 
