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3a. Symphoricarpos rotundifolius vaccinioides (Rydb.) A. Nels. Leaves 

 soft-pubescent or tomentulose, elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, from ob- 

 tuse to acute at both ends, entire or somewhat dentate: flowers oblong- 

 campanulate, shorter than in the species. (S. mollis acutus Gray, Syn. Fl. 

 1: 14. 1878; S. vaccinoides Rydb. Mem.N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 371. 1900.) Col- 

 orado to Montana. 



4. Symphoricarpos oreophilus Gray, Journ. Linn. Soc. 14: 12. 1873. 

 Glabrous or nearly so: leaves oblong to broadly oval, entire or dentate, 10-15 

 mm. long: corolla tubular or narrowly funnelform, 8-12 mm. long, the tube 

 4-5-times as long as the lobes and glabrous within : nutlets of the drupe oblong, 

 flattened, pointed at the base. (S. tetonensis A. Nels. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 

 31 : 249. 1904.) Montana to New Mexico and far westward. 



4a. Symphoricarpos oreophilus utahensis (Rydb.) A. Nels. Leaves larger 

 and the flowers often more numerous, but otherwise as in the species. (S. 

 utahensis Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 544. 1899.) Colorado to Utah 

 and southward. 



5. LONICERA L. HONEYSUCKLE 



Erect or climbing shrubs, with mostly entire leaves and the inflorescence 

 various. Flowers often showy and fragrant. Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla 

 tubular or funnelform, often gibbous at the base, irregularly or almost regu- 

 larly 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-3-celled. Berry several-seeded. Includes 

 Distegia Raf . ... 



Climbing or scrambling; flowers in capitate clusters . . . . 1. L. glaucescens. 



Erect shrubs; flowers in pairs. 

 Bracts small or wanting. 



Leaves pale; fruit blue-black . . . . . . . 2. L. caerulea. 



Leaves green, thin; fruit red . . . . . . . 3. L. utahensis. 



Bracts broad, foliaceous 4. L. involucrata. 



1. Lonicera gkucescens Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24: 90. 1897. Leaves 

 glabrous above, pubescent, at least on the veins beneath, 3-9 cm. long, 

 chartaceous-margined, not ciliate, usually only the upper pair connate- 

 perfoliate: flowers verticillate in a short interrupted spike: corolla yellow, 

 changing to reddish, pubescent or puberulent without, pubescent within, 

 2.5 cm. long or less, the 2-lipped limb shorter than the tube: stamens nearly 

 glabrous, or somewhat pubescent; style hirsute; both exserted. Wyoming, 

 northward and eastward. 



2. Lonicera caerulea L. Sp. PL 174. 1753. Stems branched, 3-6 dm. high: 

 leaves 2-3 cm. long, oblong-elliptical, obtuse, short-petioled, conspicuously 

 veined, villous-pubescent or glabrate: peduncles shorter than the flowers: 

 corolla somewhat gibbous at base, moderately bilabiate: bracts subulate or 

 linear: ovaries united and forming a blue-black sweetish berry. Transcon- 

 tinental northward; also in Europe and Asia. 



3. Lonicera utahensis Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 133. 1871. Leaves oval or 

 elliptical-oblong, rounded at both ends, very short-petioled, glabrous or nearly 

 so from the first, or soon glabrate, reticulate-venulose at maturity, 2-4 cm. 

 long: peduncles seldom over 1 cm. long; bractlets minute, rounded: corolla 

 honey-yellow or ochroleucous, occasionally tinged with purple, 12-18 mm. 

 long; the tube gibbous at base, pilose-pubescent within: berry red. (L. 

 ebractulata Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 372. 1900.) Wyoming to Montana 

 and far westward. 



4. Lonicera involucrata Banks, Rich. Bot. App. Frank. Journ. 733. 1823. 

 Pubescent or sometimes glabrate, freely branched, 6-20 dm. high: leaves 

 ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 5-12 cm. long: peduncles 2-5 cm. long; bracts 

 oblong to ovate or cordate and foliaceous; in fruit enlarging and inclosing or 

 surrounding the 2 globose, dark purple or black berries: flowers paired, rarely 

 in threes: corolla yellowish, viscid pubescent, 12-15 mm. long; bractlets 4 

 or united into 2, viscid-pubescent. -Colorado .to Montana and thence across 

 the continent. 



