754 CAPRIFOLIACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY) 



CAPRIFOLlACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY) 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, the calyx-tube adherent to the 

 2-5-celled ovary, the stamens as many as (I fewer in Linnaea, doubled in 

 Adoxa) the lobes of the tubular or rotate corolla, and inserted on its tube. 

 Fruit a berry, drupe, or pod, 1-several-seeded. Seeds anatropous, with small 

 embryo in fleshy albumen. 



Tribe I. LONICEREAB. Corolla tubular, often irregular, sometimes 2-lipped. Style slender ; 

 stigma capitate. 



* Erect or climbing shrubs, with scaly winter-buds. 



1. Diervilla. Stamens 5. Corolla funnelrform, nearly regular. Pod 2-celled, 2-valved, many- 



seeded, slender. 



2. Lonicera. Stamens 5, as many as the lobes of the tubular and more or less irregular corolla. 



Berry several-seeded ; all the 2 or 3 cells fertile. 



8. Symphoricarpos. Stamens 4 or 5, as many as the lobes of the bell-shaped regular corolla. 

 Berry 4-celled, but only 2-seeded ; two of the cells sterile. 

 * * Herbs, with axillary flowers. 



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



1-seeded. Creeping, with long-pedunculate twin flowers. 



5. Triosteum. Stamens 5. Corolla gibbous at the base. Fruit a 3-celled drupe. Erect ; flowers 



sessile. 



Tribe II. SAMBtrCEAE. Corolla wheel-shaped or urn-shaped, regular, deeply 5-lobed. Stigmas 

 1-5, sessile or nearly so. Inflorescence terminal and cymose. 

 * Shrubs, with stamens as many as corolla-lobes, the flowers in broad compound cymes. 



6. Viburnum. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe, with a compressed stone. Leaves simple. 



7. Sambucus. Fruit berry -like, containing 3 small seed-like nutlets. Leaves pinnate. 



* * Dwarf herb, with stamens doubled and flowers in a capitate cluster. 



8. Adoxa. Fruit a dry greenish drupe, with S-5 cartilaginous nutlets. Cauline leaves a single 



pair and ternate. 



1. DIERViLLA [Tourn.] Mill. BUSH HONEYSUCKLE 



Calyx-tube tapering at the summit ; the lobes slender, awl-shaped, persistent. 

 Corolla 5-lobed. Pod slender, pointed, septicidal. Low upright shrubs, with 

 ovate or oblong pointed serrate leaves, and cymoseiy 3-several-flowered pedun- 

 cles, from the upper axils or terminal. (Named in compliment to Dr. N. 

 Diereville, who carried it from Canada to Tournefort.) Several early-flowering 

 Asiatic shrubs of this genus are frequent in cultivation under the name WEIGEI.A, 

 and may in some instances persist or spread. 



1. D. Lonicera Mill. Leaves oblong-ovate, taper-pointed, petioled ; pedun- 

 cles mostly 3-flowered ; pod long-beaked. (Z>. trifida Moench; D. Diervilla 

 MacM.) Dry woods and rocky places, Nfd. to Man., s. to N. C. and the Great 

 L. region. June-Aug. Flowers at first pale yellow, turning to deep yellow, 

 scarlet, crimson, or even maroon. 



2. LONICERA L. HONEYSUCKLE 



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

 base, irregularly or almost regularly 6-lobed. Berry several-seeded. Erect 

 or climbing shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers often showy and fragrant. 

 (Named in honor of Adam iMnitzer, latinized Lonicerus, a German herbalist 

 of the 16th century.) A large boreal genus most abundant in Asia and long 

 popular in cultivation. 



