scrophulariace.f. ( ai'eifoliace.e 333 



5. MlMULUS. Monkey-flower. 



Small herbs with opposite leaves, with usually showy solitary flowers 

 on axillary peduncles: calyx 5-amrled ami ."i-toothed : corolla tubular, the 

 2-lobed upper lip erect or spreading: stamens l: stigma 2-lobed. 



M. ringens, Linu. Wild monkey -flowi r. Erect perennial, with square 

 stem and oblong or lanceolate clasping serrate leaves: flowers bin.- or light 

 purple, somewhat personate. Wet places. 



M, liiteus, Linn. Monkey-flower. Tiger-flower. Pig. 494. Annual, 

 with ovate serrate leaves: flowers large, yellow, blotched with brick-red or 

 In-own. Western America, and commonly cultivated. To gardeners often 

 known as M. tigridioides. 



XXIV. CAPRIFOLIACE.F. Honeysuckle Family. 



Bred or twining shrubs, or sometimes herbs, with opposite mostly 

 simple leaves: flowers epigynous, 5-merous, regular or irregular, 

 tubular or rotate : stamens usually as many as the lobes of the corolla 

 and inserted on its tube: ovary 2 5-loculed, ripening into a berry, 

 drupe, or capsule. About 15 genera and li< species. Characteristic 

 plants are honeysuckle, elder, viburnum, snowberry, weigela, 

 twin-flower. 



A. Corolla long-tubular 1. Lonii 



AA. Corolla shallow, usually rotate. 



b. Leaves Bimple 2. I 



bb. Leaves pinnately compound ::. Satnbv 



1. LONlCERA. HONEl SUCKLE. 



Erect or twining shrubs, with tubular, funnelform, more or less Irregular 

 flowers (often 2-lipped): corolla bulging on one side near the base: Btamena 

 5: fruit a berry, usually 'J 



together from l 1 contiguous 



flOVi | 



a. Erect. 



I 



L.ciliata, Muhl. Open, 2-^ , r 



smootb bush, 3-5 ft.: leaves '' = ~~ %, 



cordate - oblong, not sharp- 

 pointed, entiri i flowers li 

 than 1 in. long, soft j ellowi r 



the lobes lieai'h eipial : ber- TJ^UW 



red. Common in woods. ^> 



Blooms in very early spring. 



L. Tatarica, Linn. Tartarian / Tall ihrul 



12 ft.): leaves cordate-oval, not long-pointed, entire: flowen pli 

 (sometimes nearly white), 2-lipped, all the lob( oblong. A la, but 

 mon in j ard -. Bpri : 



