164 CAPRIFOLIACEJC. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



ed out its characters, and with whom this humble but charming plant was an 

 especial favorite.) 



1. Li. boreiVliS, Gronov. Moist mossy woods and cold bogs; common 

 northward, but towards the south of rare occurrence as far as New Jersey, and 

 along the mountains to Maryland. June. (Eu.) 



2. SYMPHORICARPUS, Dill. SNOWBERKY. 



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-cellcd, 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/A$ope', to bear together, and /caprros, fruit ; 

 from the clustered berries.) 



1. S. occidentalis, R. Brown. (WOLFBERRY.) Flowers in dense 

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

 protruded; berries white. Northern Michigan to Wisconsin and westward. 

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

 which it too closely resembles. 



2. S. nice III OS US, Michx. (SNOHTBERRY.) Flowers in a loose and 

 somewhat leafy interrupted spike at the end of the branches ; corolla bearded in- 

 side; berries large, bright white. Rocky banks, from W. Vermont to Penn- 

 sylvania and Wisconsin : common in cultivation. June - Sept. Berries re- 

 maining until winter. 



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

 in small close 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. LONICI2RA, 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 Lonicer, a German botanist of the 16th century.) 



$ 1 . CAPRIF6LIUM, 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. li sempervirens, Ait. (TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE.) Flowers in 

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

 most pairs united round the stem. Copses, New York (near the city) to Vir- 

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

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



