HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Caprifoliacese. 



A coarse perennial, sometimes called 

 Horse^Gentian Tmk er's-weed and often Wild Coffee, 

 Triosteum common in rich woodlands. The stout, 

 perfoliatum simple stem is rather sticky-fine-hairy, 

 Madder purple an( j ^ Q opposite-growing, light green or 

 May-July ... 



medium green, oval leaves are acute at the 



tip, and narrowed at the base to a flaring margin either 

 side of the coarse midrib ; the edge is toothless and 

 somewhat undulating. The flowers are an inconspicu- 

 ous purplish brown or madder purple ; they grow at the 

 junction of the leaves with the plant-stem ; the corolla 

 is five-lobed, tubular, and scarcely longer than the long- 

 lobed calyx, which remains attached to the mature 

 fruit ; this is -J inch long or less, orange-scarlet, densely 

 fine-hairy, and contains three hard nutlets. 2-4 feet 

 high. In rich soil, from Me., south to Ala. and Ky., and 

 west to Minn., Iowa, and Kan. 



Twin=flower ^ delicate and beautiful trailing vine 

 Linnaa borealis common in the northern woodlands, with 

 var. americana a terra-cotta-colored, somewhat rough- 

 Crimson=pink WO ody stem, and a rounded, about 8- 

 scallop-toothed, short-stemmed, light ever- 

 green leaf with a rough surface. The fragrant little 

 bell-shaped flowers, in pairs, terminate a 3-4 inches long 

 stalk, and nod ; they are delicate crimson-pink, graded 

 to white on the margins of the five lobes. The tiny 

 calyx divisions are threadlike. Branches 6-20 inches 

 long. Common in rich moist mossy \voods, particularly 

 in the mountains. Me ., to Long Island and Staten Island, 

 N. Y., and N. J., west to S. Dak., Wash., and Col. 



A shrub with erect, generally madder 

 Coral=berry or , ' , i. 



Indian Currant br wn branches very slightly woolly-hairy 

 Symphoricarpos on the younger growths. The dull gray- 

 orbiculatus green leaves are ovate, toothless (rarely 



Pink and white some o f ^he larger leaves are coarsely 

 toothed), and have distinctly short stems. 

 The five-lobed flowers are tiny bell-shaped, and grow in 

 small clusters at the angles of the leaves, or terminally ; 

 the corolla pink graded to white, and somewhat filled 

 by the fine hairiness of style and stamens. The small 

 berries in small terminal clusters are first coral red and 



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