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5. MlMULUS. MONKEY-FLOWER. 



Small herbs with opposite leaves, with usually showy solitary flowers 

 on axillary peduncles : calyx 5-angled and 5-toothed : corolla tubular, the 

 2-lobed upper lip erect or spreading: stamens 4: stigma 2-lobed. 



M. ringens, Linn. Wild monkey-flower. Erect perennial, with square 

 stem and oblong or lanceolate clasping serrate leaves : flowers blue or light 

 purple, somewhat personate. Wet places. 



M. luteus, Linn. Monkey -flower. Tiger-flower. Fig. 494. Annual, 

 with ovate serrate leaves: flowers large, yellow, blotched with brick-red or 

 brown. Western America, and commonly cultivated. To gardeners often 

 known as M. tigridioides. 



XXIV. CAPRIFOLIACE^]. HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



Erect or twining shrubs, or sometimes herbs, with opposite mostly 

 simple leaves: flowers epigynous, 5-merous, regular or irregular, 

 tubular or rotate : stamens usually as many as the lobes of the corolla 

 and inserted on its tube: ovary 2-5-loculed, ripening into a berry, 

 drupe, or capsule. About 15 genera and 200 species. Characteristic 

 plants are honeysuckle, elder, viburnum, snowberry, weigela, 

 twin- flower. 



A. Corolla long-tubular 1. Lonicera 



AA. Corolla shallow, usually rotate. 



B. Leaves simple 2. Viburnum 



BB. Leaves pinnately compound 3. Sambucus 



1. LONICERA. HONEYSUCKLE. 



Erect or twining shrubs, with tubular, funnelform, more or less irregular 

 flowers (often 2-lipped) : corolla bulging on one side near the base: stamens 

 5: fruit a berry, usually 2 

 together from 2 contiguous 

 flowers. 



a. Erect. 



L. ciliata, Muhl. Open, 

 smooth bush, 3-5 ft. : leaves 

 cordate - oblong, not sharp- 

 pointed, entire: flowers less 

 than 1 in. long, soft yellow? 

 the lobes nearly equal : ber- 

 ries red. Common in woods. 495> Loni ceia Japonica. 

 Blooms in very early spring. 



L. Tatarica, Linn. Tartarian honeysuckle. Fie;. 85. Tall shrub (to 

 12 ft.): leaves cordate-oval, not long-pointed; entire : flowers pink or red 

 (sometimes nearly white), 2-lipped, all the lobes 6blong. Asia, but com- 

 mon in yards. Spring. 



