i44 Honeysuckle (Caprifoliacece) 



(3) Genus SYMPHORICARPOS, Dill. (Snowberry, etc.) 



From Greek words meaning "to bear together" and "fruit," because of the 

 clustered berries. 



Flowers, white with a rosy or purplish tinge in clusters or 

 spikes, or sometimes solitary. Corolla, bell-shaped, 

 four- to five-lobed. Calyx, with short teeth. Stamens, 

 four or five, inserted on the throat of the corolla. 

 Stigma, rounded. Seed-case, four-celled, but with 

 only two of the cells containing perfect young seeds. 



Leaves, simple, broad-oval to oblong, opposite, edge 

 entire. 



Fruit, with four cells and two seeds. A berry. 



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Fig. 64. Snowberry. S. racembsus, Michx. 



Flowers, in a loose and often somewhat leafy terminal 

 spike. Corolla, thickly-bearded within. Stamens 

 and style not longer than the corolla tube (" included"). 

 Style, smooth. June, August. 



Leaves, smooth or nearly so, often with wavy margins. 

 Fruit, snow-white, the size of a large pea. 



Found, native in New England and Pennsylvania, and 

 northward and westward, and in cultivation. 



A pretty bush two to three feet high, very common 

 in cultivation, especially in old gardens, attractive, not on 

 account of its flowers, but its white fruit. 



Var. pauciflorus, Robbins, has the flower spike reduced 

 to only one or two blossoms. 



Wolf-berry. S. occidentalis, Hook. 



Flowers, crowded in nodding terminal or axillary spikes. 

 Corolla, bearded within. Stamens and Style, longer 

 than the corolla-tube (" exserted"). July. 



