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DIVISION II. MONOPETALOUS EX6GENOUS PLANTS. 



Floral envelopes consisting of both calyx and corolla, the latter 

 composed of more or less united petals, that is, monopetalous.* 



ORDER 55. CAPRIFOLJACEJE. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



Shrubs, or rarely lierbs, with opposite leaves, no (genuine} stipules, the 

 calyx-tube coherent with the 2 - 5-ceUed ovary, the stamens as many as 

 (or one fewer than) the lobes of the tubular or wheel-shaped corolla, and 

 inserted on its tube. Fruit a berry, drupe, or pod, 1 - several-seeded. 

 Seeds anatropous, with a small embryo in fleshy albumen. 



Synopsis. 



TRIBE I. LONICERE JE. Corolla tubular, often irregular, sometimes 2-lipped. Style 

 slender : stigma capitate. 



1. LINNJ^A. Stamens 4, one fewer than the lobes of the corolla. Fruit dry, 3-celled, but 



only 1-seeded. 



2. SYMl'HORICARPUS. Stamens 4 or 5, as many as the lobes of the bell-shaped regular 



corolla. Berry 4-celled, but only 2-seeded. 



8. LONICERA. Stamens 5- as many as the lobes of the tubular and more or less irregular 

 corolla Berry several-seeded. 



4. D1ERVILLA. Stamens ,5. Corolla funnel-form, nearly regular. Pod 2-celled, 2-valved, 



many-seeded. 



5. TRIOSTEUM. Stamens 5. Corolla gibbous at the base. Fruit a 3 - 5-celled bony drupe. 



TBIBE II. SAMBTJCEJE. Corolla wheel-shaped or urn-shaped, regular, deeply 5-lobed. 

 Stigmas 1-3, rarely 5, sessile. Flowers in broad cymes. 



6. SAMBUCUS. Fruit berry-like, containing 3 seed like nutlets. Leaves pinnate. 



7 VIBURNUM. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe, with a c mpressed stone. Leaves simple. 



1. L< I N N JE A , Gronov. LINN^EA. TWIN-FLOWER. 



Calyx-teeth 5, awl-shaped, deciduous. Corolla narrow bell-shaped, almost 

 equally 5-lobed. Stamens 4, two of them shorter, inserted toward the base of 

 the corolla. Ovary and the smalt dry pod 3-celled, but only 1-seeded, two of 

 the cells being empty. A slender creeping and trailing little evergreen, some- 

 what hairy, with rounded-oval sparingly eremite leaves contracted at the base 

 into short petioles, and thread-like upright peduncles forking into 2 pedicels at 

 the top, each bearing a delicate and fragrant nodding flower. Corolla purple 

 and whitish, hairy inside. (Dedicated to the immortal Linnceus, who first point- 



* In certain families, such as Ericaceae, &c. the petals in some genera are nearly or quite 

 separate. In Composite and some others, the calyx is mostly reduced to a pappus, or to scales, 

 or a mere border, or even to nothing more than a covering of the surface of the ovary. The 

 Btudent might look for these in the first or the third division. But the artificial analysis pre- 

 fixed to the volume provides for all these anomalies, and will lead the student to bho ordes 

 whore they belong. 



