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4. Flowers and fruit in continuous spikes: stamens pro- 
truding. (Wolfberry). S. occidentalis. 
Flowers in interrupted spikes: stamens not protruding. 5. 
5. Leaves hairy beneath. (Snowberry). 6. 
Leaves glabrous. S. albus laevigatus. 
6. Leaves not whitened beneath. S. albus. 
Leaves whitened beneath. S. albus pauciflorus. 
LINNAEA. Twin Flower. 
Delicate evergreen woody trailing plants with ireapent short 
erect branches bearing few small opposite stalked crenate leaves; 
small funnel-shaped perfect gamopetalous fragrant white ane 
rosy flowers usually paired at the end of a slender terminal 
peduncle; and small 1-seeded capsules. 
Basal tube of corolla shorter than calyx. L. borealis. 
Slender corolla tube longer than calyx. L. borealis americana. 
ABELIA, 
Deciduous or partly evergreen shrubs with. slender more or 
less square twigs with excavated pith; opposite low U-shaped 
leaf-scars, connected by a cross line, with 3 bundle-traces; small 
somewhat spreading solitary ovoid sessile buds with several pairs 
of loose scales, often developing into branches the first season; 
small ovate slightly toothed subsessile leaves: perfect funnel- 
shaped gamopetalous flowers in axillary or terminal leafy 
clusters; and small dry inferior berries. 
I. Flowers in terminal panicles. 2. 
Flowers in small lateral clusters: leaves deciduous. 3. 
2. Leaves half-evergreen: flowers 20 mm. long. X A. Saleen 
Leaves deciduous: flowers 15 mm. long. A. chinensis. 
3. Flowers 15 mm. long. A. Engleriana. 
Flowers 25 mm. long. A. Graebneriana. 
LonicerA. Honeysuckle. 
Deciduous or partly evergreen shrubs or woody twiners with 
white or yellowish brown wood with small ducts, those of the 
