190 CAPRIFOLIACEsE. [SAMBUCUS. 



Hedges and thickets from Ross southd. ; ascends to 1,350 ft. in Yorkshire ; 

 (a denizen in Scotland, Wats.} ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. June. Trunk 

 often as thick as the thigh ; bark corky ; buds scaly ; branchlets angular, 

 lenticellate. Leaflets 2-4 pair, 1-3 in., ovate oblong or lanceolate, rarely 

 orbicular (var. rotundifolia, Bromf.), serrate. Cymes 4-6 in. diara., flat- 

 topped. Corolla J in. diam., white, rotate, lobes rounded. Filaments 

 slender. Berry small, globose, black, rarely green. DISTRIB. Europe, 

 W. Asia, N. Africa. Berries used for wine; flowers for perfumes. The 

 " Cut-leaved Elder,'' a laciniate-leaved variety, occurs as a garden escape. 



3. AD OX' A, L. MOSCHATEL. 



A small glabrous succulent herb. Rootstock creeping ; buds scaly ; stem 

 simple, 2-leaved. Leaves ternately cut. Flowers small, honeyed, green, 

 in a 5-fld. peduncled head, terminal 4- lateral 5-merous. Calyx-tube hemi- 

 spheric ; limb ^-superior, 2-3-lobed. Corolla rotate, 4-5-lobed. Stamens 

 8-10, on the corolla-tube, in pairs alternating with its lobes ; anthers pel- 

 tate, 1 -celled. Disk 0. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style short, 3-5-partite, 

 stigmas terminal ; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous. Drupe girt by 

 the calyx-teeth, with 4-5 compressed cartilaginous cells. Seeds obovate ; 

 embryo minute. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia, Himalaya, N. America. 

 ETYM. a and 5o|a, in allusion to its insignificance. Each pair of stamens 

 is perhaps one, with separate anther-cells. 



A. Moschatelli'na, L. ; leaflets broadly triangular-ovate. 

 Damp hedgebanks and tree-roots, rather local, from Koss southd. ; ascends 

 3,300 ft. in the Highlands ; Ireland; fl. April-May. Stems 6-8 in.,4-angled. 

 Radical leaves 1-2-ternate, leaflets ^-J in., irregularly 3-lobed ; petiole 

 slender, dilated at the base ; cauline 3-foliolate. Head |-| in. diam., sub- 

 4-angular, yellow-green. Corolla J in. diam. Fruit succulent, green. 

 Odour musky. A Kashmir variety has 5-6-merous flowers. 



4. LONICE'RA, L. HONEYSUCKLE. 



Erect, prostrate, or climbing shrubs, with scaly buds. Leaves opposite, 

 entire, exstipulate, of the young shoots sometimes lobed. Flowers in 

 peduncled cymes or heads, often connate in pairs by the ovaries, and sub- 

 tended by connate bracteoles. Calyx-tube ovoid or subglobose ; teeth 5, 

 often unequal. Corolla tubular, funnel- or bell-shaped ; tube equal or 

 gibbous at the base, honeyed ; limb oblique or 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Stamens 

 5. Disk tumid. Ovary 2-3-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate ; ovules 

 many in the inner angle of each cell. Berry fleshy, 2-3-celled ; cells 

 few-seeded, septa sometimes wanting. Seeds ovoid or oblong, testa crusta- 

 eeous. DISTRIB. Temp, and warm regions of the N. hemisphere ; species 

 80. ETYM. A. Lonicer, a German botanist. 



Ii. Pericly'menum, L. ; twining, leaves ovate or oblong upper ses- 

 sile, flower-heads terminal peduncled. Woodbine or Honeysuckle. 

 Hedges and copses, N. to Shetland ; ascends to 1,500 ft. in Durham ; Ireland ; 



Channel Islands; fl. June-Sept. Glabrous or slightly pubescent. Stem 



