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■I- + Shrubbi/, icith cymose or axillarjj jlowers. 



++ Teeth of the calyx very short on the 2-4 celled ovary ; fruit a berry ; leaves simple, 



entire or rarely wavy or lobed on some vigorous young shoots. 



6. SYMPIIORICAKPUS. Flowers small, in close clusters or interrupted spikes. Corolla 



bell-shaped, with 4 or, 5 equal roundish lobes and as many short stamens in the 

 throat. Ovary 4-celled, but the berry only 2-seeded, two cells being emjjty. Low 

 upright shrubs, with oval, short-petioled leaves. 



7. LONICERA. Corolla tubular, funnel-form, or oblong, more or less irregular, being 



gibbous or bulging on one side at base, and the 5 lobes not all alike, but in one species 

 nearly so. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-3-eelled, becoming a several-seeded berry. Twining 

 or upright shrubs. 

 ++ ++ Teeth or lobes of the calyx slender, on the summit of the slender or taper-pointed 

 ovary lohich becomes a many-seeded, 2-valved pod ; leaves simple, serrate. 



8. DIEEVILLA. Corolla funnel-form, almost regular, 5-lobed. (stamens 5. Ovary narrow, 



sometimes linear and stalk-like. Low upright .shrubs, with flowers in terminal or 

 axillary loose clusters or cymes. 



1. ADOXA. (Greek: obscure). 11 



A. Moschat^llina, Linn. Radical leaves 1-o-ternate, the stem leaves 

 cleft ur ijarted ; leaflets obovate ; head of flowers on a slender peduncle. 

 ^Yi.s.,^Y.alld N. 



2. VIBURNUM, ARROWWOOD. (Ancient name, of uncertain 

 meaning.) Flowers white, or nearly so, in spring or early summer. 



* Flowers all alike, small, and perfect. 



■t- Leaves not lobed nor coarsely toothed, smooth or icith some scurf; fruit 

 black or loith a bluish bloom. 



■w- Leares (jlossij, finely ani evenly serrate icith very sharp teeth. 



V. Lentago, Linn. Sweet V., Sheepberrv. Tree 10°-30° hi^h, 

 connnon in moist grounds, chiefly N.; leaves ovate, conspicuously pointed, 

 on long-margined petioles; cyme broad, sessile; fruit oval, A' or more 

 long, sweet, edible. 



V. prunifblium, Linn. Rr.ACK Haw. Hardly sn tall as the preced- 

 ing, with smaller and oval mostly blunt leaves. Dry soil, from Conn. 

 to Kans. and S. 



■<-»• ^ Leaves thick and rur/ose, dull, finely serratr. 



V. Lantan a, Unn. Wayfaring Tree. Tall shrub, with short ovate- 

 cordate leaves, the lower surface and petioles and cymes scurfy-pubes- 

 cent ; fruit red, becoming black. Eu. Cult, here "under the "name of 



V. RIHiOSIM. 



■*-*-«■■«. Leaves entire or icith a few wavy or crenatr small teeth, thickish. 



= Cyme more or less peduncled. 



II Leaf edges ciliate. 



V. T)nus. Linn. Lairestims. Cult, from S. Ku., with evergreen 

 smooth entire leaves ; not hardy N.; a common house plant, winter-fiower- 

 ing, or planted out in summer ; leaves oblong; fruit dark purple. 



II II Leaf edges not ciliate. 

 V. cassinoides. Linn. WixuE-Ron. Leaves thickish and dull, 

 ovate-oblong, the point bluntish, obscurely veiny and often irregularly 

 creiiate-denticuiate ; peduncle short and leafy ; shoots scurfy." Wet 

 grounds, X. 



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