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bearing at summit a pair of small bracts, and from axil of each a filiform 

 one-flowered pedicel : pedicels similarly 2-bracteolate at summit, and a pair of 

 larger ovate glandular-hairy inner bractlets subtending the ovary : flowers 

 nodding. From the mountains of California, Colorado, and Maryland, 

 northward to the Arctic Circle. 



5. SYMPHOBICARPOS, Dill. SNOWBEERY. INDIAN 



CURRANT. 



Low and branching shrubs, erect or diffuse, not climbing ; with small and 

 entire short-petioled leaves, and 2-bracteolate small white or pinkish flowers. 

 Fruit in ours white, and the style glabrous. 



* Short-flowered : corolla urceolate- or open-campanulate, only 2 or 3 lines long : 



flowers in terminal and upper axillary dusters, or solitary in some axils. 



1. S. OCCidentalis, Hook. Robust, glabrous, or slightly pubescent: 

 leaves oval or oblong, thickish (larger 2 inches long) : axillary flower-clusters 

 not rarely pedunculate, sometimes becoming spicate and an inch long : corolla 

 3 lines high, 5-cleJl to beyond the middle, within densely villous-hirsute with long 

 beard-like hairs : stamens and style more or less exserted. Mountains of Colo- 

 rado and Montana, northward and eastward. " Wolf-berry." 



2. S. racemoSUS, Michx. More slender and glabrous : leaves round-oval 

 to oblong, smaller : axillary clusters mostly few-flowered, or lowest one-flow- 

 ered : corolla 2 lines high, 5-lobed above the middle, moderately villous-bearded 

 within, narrowed at base : stamens and style not exserted. Across the conti- 

 nent. " Snowberry." 



Var. pauciflorus, Robbins. Low, more spreading: leaves commonly 

 only an inch long : flowers solitary in the axils of upper ones, few and loosely 

 spicate in the terminal cluster. Mountains of Colorado to those of Oregon, 

 Vermont, and northward. 



* # Longer-flowered : corolla from oblong-campanulate to salverform, 5-lobed only 



at summit, 4 to 6 lines long : flowers mostly axillary. 



3. S. oreophilus, Gray. Glabrous or sometimes with soft pubescence : 

 leaves oblong to broadly oval, ^ to f inch long : corolla tubular or funnelform, 

 its tube almost glabrous within, 4 or 5 times the length of the lobes : nutlets 

 of the drupe oblong, flattened, attenuate and pointed at base. Bot. Calif, i. 

 279. S. montanus, Gray. Mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, to 

 California and Oregon. 



6. L ONI CERA, L. HONEYSUCKLE. WOODBINE. 



Erect or climbing shrubs ; with leaves mostly entire, and the inflorescence 

 various. 



* Flowers in pairs (or threes) from the axils of the leaves, the ovaries of the two 



either distinct or connate : stems erect and branching : corolla rather short. 

 - Bracts at the summit of the peduncle very small, subulate : bractlets minute, 



rounded : berries red. 



1. L. Utahensis, Watson. Leaves oval or elliptical-oblong, rounded at 

 both ends, very short-petioled, glabrous or nearly so from the first, or soon 



