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2. Sambucus. — Trees or shrubby herbs ; leaves pinnate ; flower's 

 small, in umbellate cymes, 5-merous ; corolla rotate ; berry with 

 3 — 5 i-seeded chambers. 



3. Viburnum. — Shrubs ; leaves simple ; flowers in cymes, 

 5-merous; corolla rotate or bell-shaped; berry i-seeded. 



4. L I N N iE A. — 

 Herb ; leaves simple ; 



flowers in pairs; ^-^^^ 



corolla bell-shaped ; 

 stamens didynamous; 

 fruit dry, i -seeded. 



5. LONICERA. — 



Shrubs ; leaves sim- 

 ple ; flowers in cy- 

 mose heads ; corolla 

 mono symmetric ; 

 berry of 2 or 3 

 several-seeded cham- 

 bers. 



I. Adoxa (Mos- 

 chatel). — A small 

 glabrous, succulent 

 herb ; rhizome creep- 

 ing, scaly; leaves 2, 

 radical, ternate; 

 ■flowers in a long- 

 stalked terminal 

 head of 5, small, 

 green, the 4 lateral 



ones 5-merous, 



the 



ADOXA MOSCHATELLl'XA {Coil!»!On ^Toschatcl). 



terminal one 4-mer- 

 ous; corolla rotate; 

 stamens 4 or 5, bifur- 

 cating at the base; 

 antfiers dimidiate ; 

 berry with i -seeded 

 parchment-like chambers. (Name from the Greek signifying 

 inglorious, from its humble growth.) 



I. A. Moschatellina (Common or Tuberous Moschatel). — The 

 only species, an interesting little herbaceous plant, 4 — 6 in. high ; 

 stem 4-angled; radical leaves long-stalked, ternate; leaflets tri- 

 angular, lobed ; cauline leaves or bracts 2, smaller, with sheathing 

 petioles ; flowers arranged as if on 5 sides of a cube. — Hedgerows ; 



