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Division II. MONOPETALOUS EX6GENOUS PLANTS. 



Floral envelopes consisting of both calyx and corolla, the latter 

 composed of more or less united petals, that is, monopetalous.* 



Order 55. CAPRIFOLIACE7E. (Honetsuckle Family.) 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, no {genuine) stipules, the 

 calyx-tube coherent with the 2 - 5-celled ovary, the stamens as many as 

 (or one fewer than) the lobes of the tubular or wheel-shaped corolla, and 

 inserted on its tube. — Fruit a berry, drupe, or pod, 1 -several-seeded. 

 Seeds anatropous, with a small embryo in fleshy albumen. 



Synopsis. 



Tribe I. LONICEREJE. Corolla tubular, often irregular, sometimes 2-lipped. Style 

 slender : stigma capitate. 



1. LINNiEA. Stamens 4, one fewer than the lobes of the corolla. Fruit dry, 3-celled, but 



only 1-sccded. 



2. SYMPHORICARPTJS. Stamens 4 or 5, as many as the lobes of the bell-shaped regular 



corolla. Berry 4-celled, but only 2-seeded. 



3. LONICEBA. Stamens 5. as many as the lobes of the tubular and more or less irregular 



corolla Berry several-seeded. 



4. DIEKYILLA. Stamens 5. Corolla funnel-form, nearly regular. Pod 2-celled, 2-valved, 



many-seeded. 

 6. TRIOSTEUM. Stamens 5. Corolla gibbous at the base. Frui t a 3 - 5-celled bony drupo. 



Tbide II. SAMBCCE^. Corolla wheel-shaped or urn-shaped, regular, deeply 5-lobed. 

 Stigmas 1-3, rarely 5, sessile. Flowers in broad cymes. 



6. SAMBUCUS Fruit berry-like, containing 3 seed like nutlets. Leaves pinnate. 



7. VIBURNUM Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe, with a c impressed stone. Leaves simple. 



1. liIIVIV^EA, Gronov. Linn.ea. Twin-flower. 



Calyx-teeth 5, awl-shaped, deciduous. Corolla narrow bell-shaped, almost 

 equally 5-lobed. Stamens 4, two of them shorter, inserted toward the base of 

 the corolla. Ovary and the small dry pod 3-celled, but only 1 -seeded, two of 

 the cells being empty. — A slender creeping and trailing little evergreen, some- 

 what hairy, with rounded-oval sparingly crenate leaves contracted at the base 

 into short petioles, and thread-like upright peduncles forking into 2 pedicels at 

 the top, each bearing a delicate and fragrant nodding flower. Corolla purple 

 and whitish, hairy inside. (Dedicated to the immortal Linnceus, who first point- 



* In certain families, such as Ericaceae, &c. the petals in some genera are nearly or quite 

 separate. In CompositaD and some others, the calyx is mostly reduced to a p;ippus, or to scales, 

 or a mere border, or even to nothing more than a covering of the surface of the ovary. The 

 Btudent might look for these in the first or the third division. But the artificial analysis pre- 

 fixed to the volume provides for all those anomalies, and will lead the student to too order 

 whore they belong. 



