HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Caprifoliaceae. 



finally dull crimson -magenta. The smaller bees and 

 honeybees are common visitors. 2-5 feet high. Rocky 

 slopes. Mass. , banks of the Delaware River in N. J. , and 

 Fa., south to Ga. and Tex., west to the Daks. 



A familiar shrub of old-fashioned gar- 

 Snowberry ' .,1 



Symphoricarpos dens and door-yards still commonly culti- 

 racemosus vated, with smooth, erect, gray-brown 



Pink and white branches, and oval, dull gray-green leaves 

 June-August ii ghter beneath, toothless, and a trifle 

 wavy-margined. The young shoots are ochre brown. 

 The tiny, five-lobed, bell-shaped flowers are pink graded 

 to white, and are borne in terminal and leaf -angle clus- 

 ters. The corolla is conspicuously fine-hairy within ; 

 and the stamens and style almost protrude. The honey- 

 bee is a constant visitor, and the flowers continue to 

 bloom even after the large snow-white waxy berries ap- 

 pear ; the latter are a conspicuous feature of the bush in 

 early September. 3-4 feet high. On roadsides, escaped 

 from cultivation, and on rocky banks, from Me., south 

 to Pa. and Ky., and west. See Appendix. 



A thin straggling bush with smooth, 

 suckle y=> brownish stems. The thin leaves bright 

 Lonicera light green on both sides, ovate lance- 



canadensis shaped, sometimes very broad at the 

 Naples yellow b toothless, short-stemmed, and hairy- 

 May-June i i rrn XT i n 1 



edged. The Naples yellow or honey 

 yellow, five-lobed flower, about f inch long, is funnel- 

 formed and borne in pairs at the leaf-angles. Fruit two 

 small ovoid red berries. 3-5 feet high. Moist woods, 

 from Me. , south to Pa. , and west to Minn. 



A similar species but with thickish, 

 Mountain Fly= . , ,, , . , , , 



honeysuckle b l unt ovate leaves fine-hairy beneath. 

 Lonicera The Naples yellow flowers in pairs, .al- 



ccerulea most united. The ovaries unite and form 



one two-eyed, gray-black ovate berry, 1-3 feet high, 

 In boggy woods, the same distribution. 



A Japanese shrub in frequent cultivation, 

 Lonicera established in eastern Mass. Leaves dark 



CreanTwhite g reen oblong, rather rough, palei beneath. 

 Corolla-lobes widespread, the calyx teeth 

 hairy. Berries bright red. 4-6 feet high. 

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