380 Caprifoliaceae 



Family 90. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. HONEYSUCKLE 

 FAMILY. 



Shrubs, trees, vines or perennial herbs, with opposite 

 simple or pinnate leaves, and perfect, regular or irregu- 

 lar, mostly cymose flowers. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary, its limb 3-5-toothed or 3-5-lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, 

 sometimes 2-lipped. Stamens 5, rarely 4, inserted on the 

 corolla-tube and alternate with its lobes ; anthers versa- 

 tile, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary inferior, 

 1-6-celled ; style slender ; stigma capitate or 2-5-lobed ; 

 ovules 1-several in each cavity. Fruit a berry, drupe 

 or capsule. 



Leaves pinnately compound; flowers rotate. 1. SAMBDCUS. 



Leaves simple. 



Berry white; corolla short campanulate. 2. SYMPHOBICABPCS. 



Berry red or black; corolla tubular, somewhat irregular. 



3. LONICERA. 



1. SAMBUCUS L. ELDER. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite pinnate leaves, serrate 

 or laciniate leaflets, and small white or pinkish flowers 

 in compound depressed or thyrsoid cymes. Calyx-tube 

 ovoid or turbinate, 3-5-toothed or 3-5-lobed. Corolla 

 rotate or slightly campanulate, regular, 3-5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla ; filaments 

 slender. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style 3-parted ; ovules 1 in 

 each cell, pendulous. Drupe berry-like, containing 3-5 

 1-seeded nutlets. 



1. S. glauca Nutt. Bushy or arborescent, 2-5 m. high, the 

 largest specimens tree-like ; leaves coriaceous, glabrous ; leaflets 

 5-7, lanceolate, ovate or obovate, mostly abruptly acuminate, ser- 

 rate except at the acuminate apex, 2.5-8 cm. long; inflorescence 

 5-rayed, each ray again 1-3 times 5-rayed, forming a flat-topped 

 cyme, 8-15 cm. broad; flowers white, 7 mm. broad; fruit blue 

 beneath the white bloom. 



Frequent on low hills and in washes in all the valleys. May-June. 



