220 CAPRI FOLIACE^E. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



6. SYMPHORICABPOS, Dill. SNOWBERRY. 



Calyx-teeth short, persistent. Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4 - 5-lobed, with 

 as many short stamens inserted into its throat. Ovary 4-celled, only 2 of the 

 cells with a fertile ovule ; the berry therefore 4-celled but only 2-seeded. Seeds 

 bony. LOW and branching upright shrubs, with oval short-petioled leaves, 

 which are downy underneath and entire, or wavy toothed or lobed on the young 

 shoots. Flowers white tinged with rose-color, in close short spikes or clusters. 

 (Name composed of av^opfw, to bear together, and itapir6s, fruit ; from the 

 clustered berries.) 



* Stifle bearded ; fruit red ; flowers all in short dense axillary clusters. 



1. S. Vlllgaris, Michx. (INDIAN CURRANT. CORAL-BERRY.) Flowers 

 in the axils of nearly all the leaves ; corolla sparingly bearded ; berries small. 



Rocky banks, western N. Y. and Penn. to the Dakotas, Neb., and Tex. July. 

 * * Style glabrous ; fruit white ; flowers in clusters or sometimes solitary. 



2. S. OCCidentaliS, Hook. (WOLFBERRY.) Flowers in dense terminal 

 and axillary spikes ; corolla much bearded within ; stamens and style pro- 

 truded. Rocky ground, N. Mich, and 111., west to the Rocky Mts. Flowers 

 larger and more funnel-form, and stamens longer, than in the next. 



3. S. racemosus, Michx. (SNOWBERRY.) Flowers in a loose and some- 

 what leafy interrupted spike at the end of the branches ; corolla bearded inside , 

 berries large. Rocky banks, N. New Eng. and Penn., to Minn, and westward ; 

 common in cultivation. June -Sept. Berries ripe in autumn. Var. PAUCI- 

 FL6RUS, Robbins. Low, diffusely branched and spreading; leaves smaller 

 (about 1' long), the spike reduced to one or two flowers in the uppermost axils. 



Mountains of Vt. and Penn. to Minn., the Dakotas, and westward. 



7. LONICERA, L. HONEYSUCKLE. WOODBINE. 



Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, often gibbous at 

 the base, irregularly or almost regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Ovary 2 -3- 

 celled. Berry several-seeded. Leaves entire. Flowers often showy and 

 fragrant. (Named in honor of Adam Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus, a German 

 herbalist of the 16th century.) 



1 . X YL6STEON. Upright bushy shrubs ; leaves all distinct ; peduncles axil- 

 lary, single, ^-flowered at the summit ; the two berries sometimes united into 

 one ; calyx-teeth not persistent. 



# Bracts (2 or sometimes 4) at the base of the ovaries minute. 



1. L. Ciliata, Muhl. (FLY-HONEYSUCKLE.) Branches straggling (3 - 5 

 high) ; leaves oblong-ovate, often heart-shaped, petioled, thin, downy beneath ; 

 Jiliform peduncles shorter than the leaves ; corolla funnel-form, almost spurred 

 at the base (greenish-yellow, ' long), the lobes nearly equal ; berries separate 

 (red). Rocky woods, N. Brunswick to Penn. and Minn. May. 



2. L. cserillea, L. (MOUNTAIN F.) Low (1-2 high); branches up- 

 right ; leaves oval, downy when young; peduncles very short ; bracts aid-shaped, 

 longer than the ovaries, which are united into one (blue) berry ; flowers yellowish. 



Mountain woods and bogs, Lab. to R . I., Minn., and northward. May. (Eu.) 



