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DIVISION II. GAMOPETAL.E. 



Perianth consisting of both calyx and corolla, the latter 

 more or less gamopetalous, that is, with petals united. 



ORDER 39. CAPRIFOLIACE^E. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, no stipules, the calyx- 

 tube adnate to the 2 to 5-celled ovary, the stamens mostly as many as 

 the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, inserted on its tube or 

 base. Flowers commonly 5-merous. 



* Corolla regular, short, rotate or open-campanulate : style short or hardly any ; stigmas 



3 to 5 : fruit baccate-drupaceous : inflorescence terminal and cymose. 

 i- Herb, with stamens doubled and flowers in a capitate cluster. 



1. Adoxa. Calyx with hemispherical tube adnate to above the middle of the ovary: limb 



about 3-toothed. Corolla rotate, 4 to 6-cleft. Stamens a pair below each sinus 

 of the corolla, each with a peltate one-celled anther. Ovary 3 to 5-celled. Fruit 

 greenish, maturing 2 to 5 cartilaginous nutlets. 



-- *- Shrubby to tree-like : stamens as many as corolla-lobes : inflorescence compound- 

 cymose : anthers 2-celled : calyx 5-toothed. 



2. Sainbucus. Leaves pinnately compound. Corolla rotate or nearly so. Ovary 3 to 5- 



celled, forming small baccate drupes. 



3. Viburnum. Leaves simple, sometimes lobed. Corolla rotate or open-campanulate. 



Ovary 1-celled and 1-ovuled, becoming a drupe. 



* * Corolla commonly more or less irregular, elongated or at least campanulate: style 



elongated ; stigma mostly capitate. 



t- Herbaceous, creeping, with long-pedunculate geminate flowers and dry one-seeded fruit, 

 but a 3-celled ovary. 



4. Linnsea. Calyx with a 5-parted limb, constricted above the globular tube. Corolla 



campanulate-funnelform, almost equally 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. 

 Style exserted. 

 t- - Shrubs, with scaly winter buds, erect or climbing : fruit two to many-seeded. 



5. Symphoricarpos. Calyx with a globular tube and 4 to 5-toothed limb. Corolla regu- 



lar, not gibbous, from short-campanulate to salverform, 4 to 5-lobed. Ovary 4-celled. 

 Fruit a globose berry-like drupe, containing two small and seed-like bony nutlets. 



6. Lonicera. Calyx with ovoid or globular tube and a short 5-toothed or truncate limb 



Corolla from campanulate to tubular, more or less gibbous at base ; the limb irregular 

 and commonly bilabiate, sometimes almost regular. Ovary 2 to 3-celled. Fruit a few 

 to several-seeded berry. 



1. ADOXA, L. MOSCHATEL. 



An anomalous genus in this order. Cauline leaves a single pair: a very 

 small herb, a span or less high, with musky odor. 



1. A. Mosehatellina, L. Glabrous and smooth : radical leaves once to 

 thrice ternately compound ; cauline pair of leaves 3-parted or of 3 obovate 

 and 3-cleft or parted leaflets : flowers small, greenish-white or yellowish, 4 or 



