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1. G. bifolliim Wats. Stem smooth, erect, but little branched; 

 4-12 inches high. Leaves linear to oblanceolate. Flowers per- 

 fect: on solitary, naked peduncles. Fruit hispid, curved down- 

 ward at the end of the peduncle. In light shade along streams, 

 often in dense patches. May-June. 



2. G. triflorum Michx. Sweet-scented Bedstraw. Stems 

 weak; bristly-roughened backward on the angles; unbranched; 

 1-3 ft. long. Leaves 1-nerved; narrowly elliptical or slightly 

 oblanceolate, cuspidate at the apex. Peduncles terminal and 

 axillary; 3-flowered or branched into three 3-flowered pedicels. 

 Flowers greenish. Fruit hispid with hooked hairs. Along 

 mountain streams in rich soil. May-August. 



CAPRIFOLIACEJE. Honeysuckle Family. 



Shrubs, or sometimes herbs, with opposite, usually 

 exstipulate leaves. Inflorescence mostly cymose. Calyx 

 of 3-5 united sepals. Corolla of 5 united petals, the 

 tube often gibbous at the base. Stamens 5, borne on 

 the corolla and alternate with its lobes. Style slender. 

 Stigma capitate, or 2-5-lobed, Ovary "inferior," 1-6- 

 celled, ripening into a 1-6-celled berry, drupe or 

 capsule. 



Leaves pinnately-compound; corolla mostly rotate. 1. Sambucua 



Leaves simple. 



Corolla bell-shaped; regular 2. Symphoricarpos 



Corolla tubular; irregular 3. Lonicera 



1. SAMBTJCUS. Elderberry. 



More or less tree-like shrubs with smooth bark and promi- 

 nent pith in the new growth. Leaves large, pinnately-com- 

 pound; decussately-opposite; leaflets 3-11, serrate. Inflor- 

 escence a compound cyme of small white or cream-colored, 

 fragrant flowers. Stigmas and cells of ovary 3-5. Fruit a 

 berry-like drupe. 



1. S. decipiens Jones. Bushy or tree-like, 6-15 ft. high, some- 

 times with a trunk as much as 9 inches in diameter; bark 

 finely fissured. Winter buds small. Leaves glabrous, with 

 3-9 leaflets, sharply serrulate except the abruptly acuminate 

 apex. Cyme flat-topped. 3-6 inches broad. Fruit blue with 

 a white bloom. In mountain valleys. June-July. (This species 

 has heretofore been confused with S. glauca Nutt.) 



2. SYMPHORICARPOS. Buck Bush; Snowberry; Waxberry. 



Bushy shrtbs. less than 5 ft. high. Stems erect or ascend- 

 ing. Leaves short-petiolecl. Inflorescence a short spike or 

 axillary. Flowers white or pink-tinged, each accompanied by 

 2 small bracts. Calyx-teeth short. Corolla narrowly bell- 

 shaped or funnelform; regularly 4-5-lobed. Stamens short. 

 Ovary 4-celled, only 2 of the cells being fertile. Fruit 4-celled, 

 but 2-seeded; ovoid; white in our western species. 



Leaves decidedly pubescent beneath 1. S. rotundlfoliiis* 



Leaves pubftrulent or glabrous on both surfaces 2, S. vac<?in|oi<1ei 



