220 CAPRIFOLIACE.E. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



6. SYMPHORICARPOS, Dill. SNOWBERRY. 



Calyx-teeth short, persistent. Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4 - 5-lobed, with 

 as many short stamens inserted into its throat. Ovary 4-celled, only 2 of the 

 cells with a fertile ovule ; the berry therefore 4-celled but only 2-seeded. Seeds 

 bony. Low and branching upright shrubs, with oval short-petioled leaves, 

 which are downy underneath and entire, or wavy toothed or lobed on the young 

 shoots. Flowers white tinged with rose-color, in close short spikes or clusters. 

 (Name composed of ffv/j.rj>opf<, to bear together, and Kapir6s, fruit; from the 

 clustered berries.) 



* Style bearded ; fruit red ; flowers all in short dense axillary clusters. 



1. S. VUlgaris, Michx. (INDIAN CURRANT. CORAL-BERRY.) Flowers 

 in the axils of nearly all the leaves ; corolla sparingly bearded ; berries small. 



Rocky banks, western N. Y. and Penn. to Dak., Neb., and Tex. July. 

 * * Style glabrous ; fruit white ; flowers in clusters or sometimes solitary. 



2. S. OCCidentalis, Hook. (WOLFBERRV.) Flowers in dense terminal 

 and axillary spikes ; corolla much bearded within ; stamens and style pro- 

 truded. Rocky ground, N. Mich, and 111., west to the Rocky Mts. Flowers 

 larger and more funnel-form, and stamens longer, than in the next. 



3. S. racem6sus, Michx. (SNOWBERRY.) Flowers in a loose and some- 

 what leafy interrupted spike at the end of the branches; corolla bearded inside , 

 berries large. Rocky banks, N. New Eng. and Fenn., to Minn, and westward ; 

 common in cultivation. June -Sept. Berries ripe in autumn. Var. PAUCI- 

 FL6uus, Robbins. Low, diffusely branched and spreading; leaves smaller 

 (about 1' long), the spike reduced to one or two flowers in the uppermost axils. 



Mountains of Vt. and Peiin. to Minn., Dak., and westward. 



7. L ONI CERA, L. HONEYSUCKLE. WOODBINE. 



Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, often gibbous at 

 the base, irregularly or almost regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5 , Ovary 2-3- 

 celled. Berry several-seeded. Leaves entire. Flowers often showy and 

 fragrant. (Named in honor of Adam Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus, a German 

 herbalist of the 16th century.) 



1. XYL6STEON. Upright bushy shrubs ; leaves all distinct ; peduncles axil- 

 lary, single, 2-flowered at the summit; the two berries sometimes united into 

 one ; calyx-teeth not persistent. 



* Bracts (2 or sometimes 4) at the base of the ovaries minute. 



1. L. Ciliata, Muhl. (FLY-HONEYSUCKLE.) Branches straggling (3 - 5 

 high); leaves oblong-ovate, often heart-shaped, petioled, thin, downy beneath; 

 Ji I if or in peduncles shorter than the leaves ; corolla funnel-form, almost spurred 

 at the base (greenish-yellow, |' long), the lobes nearly equal; berries separate 

 (red). Rocky woods, N. Brunswick to Penn. and Minn. May. 



2. L. cserulea, L. (MOUNTAIN F.) Low (1-2 high); branches up- 

 right ; leaves ova}, downy when young ; peduncles very short ; bracts awl-shaped, 

 longer than the ovaries, u-hich are united into one (blue) berry ; flowers yellowish. 



Mountain woods and bogs, Lab. to R. I., Minn., and northward. May. (Eu.) 



