208 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



II. MOXOPETALOUS DIVISION. 



Includes the families whicli have both calyx and corolla, 

 and the latter in one piece ; that is, the petals united more 

 or less into one body. Yet in some plants, especially the 

 composita3, the calyx is so much reduced or modified as to 

 appear to be wanting; and in a few others, as some of the 

 Ericaceffi, the petals are separate. 



LVII. CAPRIFOLIACEiE, HOXEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with calyx adherent to the 2-5- 

 celled ovary (the teeth or limb above it sometimes nearly 

 obsolete or obscure), stamens as many as the lobes of the 

 corolla (or in Adoxa twice as many, and in Linngea one fewer) 

 and borne on its tube, and opposite leaves without stipules. 

 In some species of Viburnum there are little appendages 

 on the base of the petiole imitating stipules. Fruit a drupe 

 or berry, or sometimes a pod. Seeds with a small embryo in 

 fleshy albumen. 



« Corolla shallow, wheel shaped or urn shaped : stigmas 8-5 (sometimes 1 tit Vibur- 

 num). Frtiit a dri/ish orjlesh;/ drupe. 

 +- Herbs ; flowers capitate. 



1. ADOXA. Low, with a single pair of ternate, cauline leaves. A pair of separate or 



united staiiifiis with l-celled anthers in each sinus of the 4-6-cleft, greenish or yellow- 

 ish, small corolla. Fruit dry, with 3-5 nutlets. 

 +- +- Shriibs or some loiv trees, with small floioers in broad ri/mes. and berry like fruit, 

 containing l-;3 seeds or rather seed-like stones. Cali/x-teelh on the ovary very 

 short or obscure ; stamens 5. 



2. VIBUKNUM. Leaves simple. Fruit containing a single fl.it or flatti.'ih stone. 



3. SAMBUCUS. Leaves pinnate, and the oblong or lanceolate leaflets serrate. Fruit con- 



taining 3 seeds or rather small, seed-like stones. 

 » * Corolla longer or tubidar , frequently irregidar, sometimes 2 lipped ; stigma 1. 



-I- Perennial he7-bs, with pi-ominent awl shaped or linear lobes to the calyx, and axil 

 lary flowers. 



4. LINN.(EA. A pair of flowers nodding on the summit of a slender, scape-like peduncle. 



Corolla narrow, bell-shaped, with 5 almost equal, rounded lobes. Stamens 4, two of 

 them shorter. Ovary and small pod 8-celled, but perfecting a seed in only one cell. 

 Creeping evergreen herb. 



5. TRIOSTKUM. Flowers sessile in the a.xils of the leaves, single or in a cluster. Corolla 



oblong-tubular, with 5 short, almost equal lobes, scarcely longer than the leaf-like lobes 

 of the calyx. Stamens 5, equal. Fruit fleshy, orange or red, crowned with the pen 

 sistent calyx-lobes, containing 3 bony seeds or rather nutlets. Erect and coarse, leafy 

 herbs; their leaves narrowed at base, but united :u-o'.nid the simple stem. 



