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no stipule-scars; ovoid buds with about 2 pairs of exposed 

 scales; simple entire or exceptionally lobed ovate petioled 

 leaves; small white or rosy bell-shaped perfect gamopetalous 

 iiowers, hairy within; and white or red inferior berries. 



1. Pith continuous: leaves small (scarcely 40 mm.), white 



beneath: fruit red. 2. 

 Pith excavated: fruit white. (Snowberries). 3. 



2. Leaves unvariegated. (Coral berry). S. orbiculatus. 

 Leaves variegated. S. orbiculatus variegatus, 



3. Leaves often deeply lobed, glabrate: fruit late. X S.Heyeri. 

 Leaves very rarely a little repand-lobed. 4. 



4. Flowers and fruit in continuous spikes: stamens pro- 



truding. (Wolfberry). S. occidentalis. 



Axillary flowers often solitary. 5. 



5. Leaves hairy beneath. (Snowberry). 6. 



Leaves glabrous. S. albus laevigatus. 



6. Leaves not whitened beneath. S. albus. 

 Leaves whitened beneath. S. albus pauciflorus. 



LINNAEA. Twin Flower. 



Delicate evergreen woody trailing plants with frequent 

 short erect branches bearing few small opposite stalked crenate 

 leaves; small funnel-shaped perfect gamopetalous fragrant 

 white and rosy flowers usually paired at the end of a slender 

 terminal peduncle; and small 1-seeded capsules. 

 Basal tube of corolla shorter than calyx. L. borealis. 



Slender corolla tube longer than calyx. L. borealis americana. 



ABELIA. 



Deciduous or partly evergreen shrubs with slender more 

 or less square twigs with excavated pith; opposite low U- 

 s-haped leaf-scars, connected by a cross . line, with 3 bundle- 

 traces; small somewhat spreading solitary ovoid sessile buds 

 with several pairs of loose scales, often developing into branch- 

 es the first season; small ovate slightly toothed subsessile 

 leaves; perfect funnel-shaped gamopetalous flowers in axillary 

 or terminal leafy clusters; and small dry inferior berries. 

 1. Flowers in terminal panicles. 2. 



Flowers in small lateral clusters: leaves deciduous. 3. 



