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DIVISION II. MONOPETALOUS EX6GENOUS PLANTS. 



Floral envelopes consisting of both calyx and corolla, the lattet 

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



ORDER 55. CAPRIFOLJACEJE. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, no (genuine) stipules, the 

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

 for one feiver 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. 



TKIBB I. L.ONICERE.E. Corolla tubular, often irregular, sometimes 2-lipped. Style 

 slender : stigma capitate. 



1. LINN.EA. Stamens 4, one fewer than the lobes of the corolla. Fruit dry, 3-celled, but 



only 1-seeded. 



2. SYMPIIORICARPUS. Stamens 4 or 5, aa 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. 

 i. DIERVILLA. Stamens 5. Corolla funnel-form, nearly regular. Pod 2-celled, 2-valved, 



many-seeded. 

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



TBIUE II. SAMBUCE.ZE. 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 impressed stone. Leaves simple. 



1. LJ I NTV 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 

 tha corolla. Ovary and the small dry pod 3-cclled, but only 1-seedcd, two of 

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

 what hairy, with rounded-oval sparingly crenate 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 Linnaeus, who first point- 



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

 separate. In Compositse 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. Th 

 itudent might look for these in the first or the third division. But the artificial analysis DTO- 

 fixed to the volume provides for all these anomalies, and will lead the student to the 0-4*1 

 where they belong. 



