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corolla, funnel form, campanulate, four to five-lobed; 

 stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla, inserted on 

 the tube or throat; ovary one to ten-celled; fruit a cap- 

 sule, berry or drupe. About 5,500 species mostly tropi- 

 cal. Bedstraw (Galium) and coffee belong to the order. 

 Buttonweed (Diodia teres, Walt.). 

 A hairy, or minutely pubescent annual, 

 with spreading stem ; leaves mostly 

 terete, linear-lanceolate ; sessile, rigid 

 flowers, one to two in each axil ; corolla 

 funnel-form, small ; fruit obovate, tur- 

 binate, not furrowed, crowned with four 

 short calyx teeth. Common in New Jer- 

 sey and found as far south as Florida 

 and Texas. 



Honeysuckle Family (Caprifoliaceac). 

 Shrubs, trees or vines, or rarely herbs, 

 with opposite leaves ; stipules absent or 

 present ; flowers perfect, mostly cymose ; 

 calyx adnate to the ovary, three to five- 

 toothed or three to five-lobed; corolla 

 gamopetalous with a five-lobed limb or 

 two-lipped; stamens four to five, in- 

 serted on the tube of the corolla and 

 Fig. 144. Bracted alternate with its lobes ; ovary two to 

 plantain (Plantago five-celled; styles slender; stigma capi- 

 anstata). < / j j 



tate; fruit a berry, drupe or pod; seeds 



with a membranous or hard coat. About 275 species. 

 Found generally in the northern hemisphere. 



Indian Currant, Coralberry (Symphoricarpos orbicula- 

 tus, Moench.). A shrub two to four feet high, purplish, 

 usually pubescent, branched ; leaves oval or ovate, entire 

 or undulate, nearly glabrous above, pubescent under- 

 neath; flowers in short axillary clusters; corolla bell- 

 shaped, sparingly bearded, pinkish, stamens included ; 

 fruit a purplish berry. Rocky woods and along streams 



