396 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



4-toothed: corolla tubular, with 4 short lobes: stamens 4 on corolla throat: 

 style long and exserted: fruit, small, dry, inversely pyramidal. 



C. OCcidentEllis, Linn. Tall shrub with leaves in 2's or 3's, oval-pointed, 

 petioled. with stipules between: heads of whitish flowers about 1 inch in 

 diameter. Usually along streams and pond banks. 



XLVIII. CAPRIFOLIACE^. Honeysuckle Family. 



Erect 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 200 species. Characteristic 

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

 twin -flower, 



A, Corolla long-tubular. 



B. Fruit a berry (often two together) several-seeded: leaf 



margins entire or wavy edged: sometimes connate. .1. Lonicera 

 BB. Fruit a linear-oblong capsule, 2-valved, many-seeded: 



leaf margin serrate 2. Diervilla 



AA. Corolla shallow, usually rotate. 



B. Leaves simple 3. Viburnum 



BB. Leaves pinnately compound 4. Sambucus 



1. LONlCERA. Honeysuckle. 



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

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

 5: fruit a berry, usually 2 ^ 



together from 2 contiguous (7^^-- 



flowers. ^-^-^^ ^^^\% 



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L. ciliata, Muhl. Open, dfl^'^?^ " 



smooth bush, 3-5 ft. : leaves '-' ^~ 



cordate - oblong, not sharp- 

 pointed, entire: flowers less 

 than 1 in. long, soft yellow 

 the lobes nearly equal : ber- 



ries red. Common in woods. "95. Loniceia Japonica. 



Blooms in very early spring. 



L. TatArica, Linn. Tartarian honeysuckle. Fig. 85. Tall shrub (to 

 12 ft.): leaves cordate-oval, not long-pointed, entire: flowers pink or red 

 (sometimes nearly white), 2-lipped, all the lobes oblong. Asia, but com- 

 mon in yards. Spring. 



