G4 CAPRIFOLIACE^. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



white, often reddish bracts, 1J to 3 inches long, abruptly acute. Fruit a large cluster of 

 crimson berries. 



2. C. Canadensis, L. Stem simple, herbaceous, 3 to 8 inches high; leaves in a 

 whorl of 6 at the top, and a pair below; the 4 bracts 4 to 8 lines long. 



* * Flowers white or cream colored, cymose, not involucrate. 



3. C. Californica, C. A. Meyer. A shrub, 6 to 15 ft. high, with smooth, purplish 

 branches; leaves ovate acute, obtuse at the base, 2 to 4 inches long, lighter colored 

 beneath, with loose, silky hairs; flowers in small, dense, round-topped cymes. 



4. C. glabrata, Benth. Bark gray; leaves obloDg to narrowly ovate, acute at each 

 end, alike green on both sides; flowers in open, flat cymes. 



GARRY A ELLIPTIC A, Dougl. and G. Fremontii, Torn, dioecious shrubs, belong here. The ever- 

 green coriaceous leaves are opposite on the 4-angled branchlets, the short petioles connate; the apeta- 

 lous flowers in axillary aments. Leaves of the former elliptical, undulate margins; the staminato 

 amenta long ; leaves of the latter ovate to oblong, not undulate, lighter green. 



DIVISION 2. GAMOPETAL^E. 



ORDER 28. CAPRIFOUACE.2E. 



In our species shrubs with opposite leaves, no stipules, the calyx adherent to the 

 2-5-celled ovary, the stamens as many as the lobes of the rotate or tubular corolla. 



Corolla rotate, regularly 5-lobed; white : Sambucus. 1 



Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4-5-lobed, pinkish Symphoricarpus. 2 



Corolla tubular, irregular Louicera. 3 



1, SAMBUCUS, Tourn. ELDER. 



Calyx teeth corolla lobes and stamens 5. Stigmas 3 to 5. Berries really drupes. 



Shrubs whose rank shoots are filled with a pith, half an inch in diameter. Leaves 

 pinnately 5-11-foliolate. Flowers small, in large compound cymes. 



1. S. glauca, Nutt. Cyme flat, 5-parted; fruit black, with a white bloom. 



2. S. racemosa, L. Cyme ovate or pear-shaped; fruit bright red. Bare. 



2. SYMPHORICARPUS, Dill. (SNOWBERRY). 



Calyx 5-toothed, occasionally 4-toothed, persistent. Corolla nearly or quite regular, 

 from open campanulate to salver-form, 5-4-lobed. Stamens as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla, inserted on its throat. Fruit globular, white. Low shrubs, with oval or ob- 



