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Division II. GAMOPETALiE. 



Perianth consistiiiii: of both calyx and corolla, the latter 

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



Order 39. CAPRI FOLIACEyli:. (Honeysuckle Family.) 



Shruhs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, no stipules, the calvx- 

 tube aduate to the 2 to 5-cclled 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. 

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

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

 about 3-tootlied. Corolla rotate, 4 to 6-cleft. Stamens a pair belf>w 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 comjiouml- 

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



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



{•elled, forming small baccate drupes. 



3. Yiburnum. Leaves siniple, sometimes lobed. CoroUa 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 gloliulnr tul>e. Corolla 

 cami)anulate-funnelform, almost equally 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. 

 Style exserted. 

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



5. Symphoricarpos. Calyx with a globular tube and 4 to .O-toothcd limb. Corolla reiru- 



lar, not gibbous, from short-campanulate to salverform, 4 to S-lobed. Ovary 4-< ellcd. 

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



6. l.onicera. Calyx with ovoid or globular tube and a short 5.toothed or triuicnte limb 



Coiolla from campanulate to tubular, more or less gibbous at ba.se ; the limb irregular 

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

 to several-seeded berry. 



1. ADOXA, L. MosniATKi.. 



An anomalous genus in tliis order. Cnulino loaves a sinc:l^ pair: a vory 

 small herb, a p])an or less liigh, with musky odor. 



1. A. Moschatellina, L. Glabrous and smooth : radical lonvos onrp to 

 thrice ternately compound ; cauliuo p.n'r of Ip.ivos n-p:irtoil or of .3 ohov.ite 

 and 3-cleft or parted leaflets : flowers small, greeuish-w hite or yellowish, 4 or 



