CAPKIFOLIACEiE. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 1'2'j 



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

 oue-flowered pedicel : pedicels similarly U-bracteolato 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 tlie Arctic Circle. 



5. SYMPHOmCARPOS, Dill. SNOwniiURV. Indian' 



CUUUANT. 



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

 entire sliort-petiolod leaves, and 2-bractcolate small white or jtinkish flowers. 

 — Fruit in ours white, and the style glabrous. 



* Short-Jlowered : corolla iirceolate- or open-campanulate, onli/ 2 or 3 lines long: 



flowers in fenninal and upper axillarij clusters, or solitari/ in some axils. 



1. S. OCeidentalis, Ilook. Robust, glabrous, or slightly pubescent* 

 leaves oval or oblong, thickish (larger 2 inches long): a.xillary flower-dusters 

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

 3 lines high, 5-cleJl to beyond the middle, icithin denselj villous-hirsute with long 

 beard-like hairs : stamens and st/jle more or less exserted. — Mountains of Colo- 

 rado and ^lontana, northward and eastward. " Wolf-l)erry." 



2. S. racemosus, Michx. ^fore 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, moderatelu villous-bcardfd 

 ?(vV///?!, narrowed at base : stamens and stijle not exserted. — Across the conti- 

 nent. " Snowberry." 



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

 only an incb long : flow ers 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-floicered : corolla from oblong-campanulate to salve form, 5-lobed onhj 



at summit, 4 /o 6 lines long : flowers mostlg axillarg. 



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

 leaves oblong to broadly oval, i- 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. LONICERA, L. Honeysuckle. WoonniNE. 



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

 various. 



* Flowers in pairs {or threes) from the axils of' the leaves, the ovarirs of the two 



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

 *- Bracts at the sunnnit of the peduncle verij 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 sood 



