BOTANY OF LA SALLE COUNTY. 85 



berries Or. crowned by calyx. 



S YMPHORICAR POS. Snow Berry. A shrub 

 with smallish, oval, leaves; flowers Pi. in leafy 

 spikes and white globose berries of ^ in. dia. 

 Ju. Sept. 



LONICERA. Honey-Suckle. Woodbine. Leaves 



entire. 



L. semper virens, Trumpet Honeysuckle. Flow- 

 ers R. without, Y. within. 



L. Sullivantii. Whitish, smooth; leaves oval, 

 sessile, and upper connate or united at base; 

 flowers Y., berries Cr. L. flava of 5th EM. 



Jh. L. glauca. Smooth; leaves oblong, pale, 1 to 4 

 upper pairs connate; flowers G. Y. L. parvi- 

 flora 5th Ed. 



DIERVILLA. Bush Honeysuckle. Low straggling- 

 shrubs. 



D. trifida. Leaves long-ovate, acuminate short 

 petioled; flowers pale Y., J. Aug. Rocky places. 

 Order 52. RUBIACEAE. Madders. Leaves oppo- 

 site; entire, connected by stipules seed pod 2 to 

 4 celled. 



HOUSTONIA. Low plants with small, narrow 

 leaves and W. or purplish flowers in flat-heads 

 cymes. 



H. purpurea. M. J. 3 to 6 in. Edges of bluffs. 

 Ours var. ciliolata. Leaves somewhat thick. 



CEPHALANTHUS. Button-bush. Flowers W. in 



dense globular heads. 



C. occidentalis. Shrub. Smooth; leaves ovate, 

 acute, shining above. In ponds and by slow 

 running streams. 



GALITTM. Cleavers. Leaves whorled, stems square 



and generally trailing and bristly. 

 G; Aparine. Weak and reclining! flower W., bell- 



