Order 66.— HONEYSUCKLES. 225 



COHORT II. 



THE GAMOPETALOUS EXOGENS. 



Essentiiil Character. — Flowering plants (Ph.enogamia) 

 with their stems growing bj additions to the outside in lay- 

 ers (ExoGENs), their seeds inclosed in a seed-vessel or pericarp 

 (AngIospekms), their flowers with a doable perianth and 

 their petals united (Monopetal^). 



Order LXYI. CAPRIFOLIACE^. Honeysuckles. 



Shrubs and Tierbs^ often twining, with opposite leaves ; with 



■flowers clustered and often fragrant, 5-parted and often irregular; 



corolla monopetalous, tubular or rotate ; 



stamens on the tube of the corolla, often one less than its lobes ; 



ovary adherent to the calyx ; style 1 ; fruit a berry, drupe, or capsule ; 



embryo small, in fleshy albumen. 



Analysis of tlie Genera. 



1 Corolla tubular. Stigma capitate, ou a slender style. . . .2 



1 Corolla rotate, deeply 5-lobed. Stigmas 3, rarely 5, Fessile. Shrubs.. . .c 



2 Herbs a 



2 Shrubs b 



a Stamens 4, capsule 3-celled. A trailing evergreen. Twin-floiver. Linn^'a. 1 



a Sta. 5, drupe bony, 3-5-celled. Erect, unbranched. Fever-root. Trios'teum. 



b Cor. bell-shaped, reg'r. Berry glob., 4-celled, 2-seeded. Symphoricar'pus. 2 



b Cor. tubular, lobes unequal. Berry 2-3-celled, few seeded, c. Lonice'ra. 3 



b Corolla funnel-shaped. Capsule 2-celled, many-seeded, c. Diervil'la. 4 



c Leaves pinnate. Berry globose, pulpy, 3-seeded. MJer. Sambu'cus. 5 



c Leaves simple. Drupe flattish, 1-seeded. Handsome shrubs. Vibur'num. 6 



1. LINN^'A. Twin-flower. 

 Calyx tube ovate, limb 5-parted, deciduous, with 2 bractlets at base. 

 Corolla bell-shaped, limb a little irregular, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, 2 longer 

 than the other 2. Capsule 3-celled, but only 1-seeded, 2 of the cells being 

 empty.— A trailing evergreen herb, dedicated to Linnaeus, the fii-st and 

 greatest of botanists. 



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