156 KEY AND FLORA 



/. G. borea'le L. Erect, smooth, leafy, branched. Leaves in 

 fours, linear to lanceolate, obtuse. 3-nerved. Flowers white, perfect, 

 in a terminal panicle. Fruit small, hispid at first, smooth when ripe. 

 In the mountains northward. Summer. 



CAPRIFOLIA'CEJE. HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



Shrubs or shrubby vines (rarely herbs) with opposite leaves 

 without stipules. Flowers perfect ; regular or irregular. Calyx 

 5-toothed, adnate to the inferior ovary. Corolla 4 or 5 cleft. 

 Stamens distinct, as many as the corolla lobes and alternat- 

 ing with them. Ovary 2-5-celled. Fruit a berry, drupe or 

 capsule. 



I. SYMPHORICAR'POS, Snowberry 



Low, branching shrubs, with leaves usually entire (some- 

 times on young shoots lobed at the base). Flowers in axil- 

 lary or terminal spikes or clusters with 2 bracts under each 

 flower. Calyx 5-toothed, persisting on the fruit. Corolla 

 bell-shaped, 5 or 4 lobed. Fruit a roundish, white berry con- 

 taining 2 bony nutlets. The berries are usually densely clus- 

 tered at the ends of the branchlets. 



a. S. racemo'sus Michx. Erect shrubs, smooth or with the lower 

 face of the leaves pubescent. Flowers in terminal, short and inter- 

 rupted spike-like racemes, or some solitary in the upper axils. 

 Corolla very hairy within at the base of the lobes. Style and 

 stamens short. Widely distributed. 



b. S. mollis Nutt. Low,, diffusely spreading, softly and densely 

 pubescent. Leaves oval, small. Flowers few in terminal clusters 

 or in the upper axils. Corolla short and broad, but little bearded 

 inside. Throughout California. 



II. LONIC'ERA, Honeysuckle, Twin-berry 



Twining or erect shrubs with entire leaves (sometimes 

 lobed on short shoots), the upper united around the stem in 

 some species. Flowers many in interrupted spikes, or axillary 

 in pairs which are sessile in an involucre. Calyx minutely 

 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, funnel-form, or oblong bell-shaped, 

 with the border 5-lobed ; or 2-lipped, ivith 4 lobes forming the 



