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2. SYMPHORICARPTTS, Dill. SNOWBERRT. 



Calyx-teeth short, persistent on the fruit. Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4 - 

 5-lobed, with as many short stamens inserted into its throat. Ovary 4-celled, 

 only 2 of the cells with a fertile ovule ; the berry therefore 4-celled but only 2- 

 seeded. Seeds bony. Low and branching upright shrubs, with oval short- 

 petioled leaves, which are downy underneath and entire, or wavy-toothed or 

 lobed on the young shoots. Flowers white tinged with rose-color, in close 

 short spikes or clusters. (Name composed of (ru/i<ope<o, to bear together, and 

 Kapnos, fruit; from the clustered berries.) 



1. S. OCCidentalis, E. Brown. (WOLFBERRY.) Flowers in dense ter- 

 minal and axillary spikes ; corolla much bearded within ; the stamens and style 

 protruded ; berries white. Northern Michigan, Illinois, and westward. Flow- 

 ers larger and more funnel-form, and stamens longer, than in the next. 



2. S. racembsus, Michx. (SNOWBERRY.) Flowers in a loose and some- 

 what leafy interrupted spike at the end of the branches ; corolla bearded inside ; 

 berries large, bright white. Rocky banks, W. Vermont to Pennsylvania and 

 Wisconsin : common in cultivation. June- Sept. Berries ripe in autumn. 



Var. pau.cifl.6rus, Bobbins. , Low, diffusely branched and spreading ; 

 leaves smaller (about 1' long), the spike reduced to one or two flowers in the 

 axils of the uppermost. Rocky woods of L. Superior, Dr. Bobbins, and north- 

 westward. Alleghanies of Pennsylvania, J. R. Lowrie, Mr. Backing. 



3. S. VUlgaris, Michx. (INDIAN CURRANT. CORAL-BERRY.) Flowers 

 in small dose clusters in the axils of nearly all the leaves ; corolla sparingly 

 bearded ; berries small, dark red. Rocky banks, W. New York and Penn. to 

 Illinois and southward : also cultivated. July. 



3. LONICERA, L. HONEYSUCKLE. WOODBINE. 



Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, often gibbous at the 

 base, irregularly or almost regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Ovary 2 - 3-celled. 

 Berry several-seeded. Leaves entire. Flowers often showy and fragrant. 

 (Named in honor of Adam Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus, a German herbalist of 

 the 16th century.) 



1. CAPRIFOLIUM, Juss. Twining shrubs, with the flowers in sessile whorled 

 clusters from the axils of the (often connate) upper leaves, and forming interrupted 

 terminal spikes: calyx-teeth persistent on the (red or orange) berry. 



# Corolla trumpet-shaped, almost regularly and equally 5-lobed. 



1. L. Semp6rvirens, Ait. (TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE.) Flowers in 

 somewhat distant whorls ; leaves oblong, smooth ; the lower petioled, the up- 

 permost pairs united round the stem. Copses, New York (near the city) to 

 Virginia, and southward : common also in cultivation. May - Oct. Leaves 

 deciduous at the North. Corolla scentless,, nearly 2' long, deep red outside, 

 yellowish within or rarely throughout. 



# * Corolla ringent : the lower Up narrow, the upper broad and 4-lobed. 



2. L. grata, Ait. (AMERICAN WOODBINE.) Leaves smooth, glaucous be- 

 neath, obovate, the 2 or 3 upper pairs united ; flowers, whorled in the axils of 



