164 CAPRIFOLIACE.E. 



rose-red, 2 lines long, slightly gibbous, cleft to the middle or more 

 deeply, scarcely villous within: fr. small, globose, snow-white. Common 

 in the Oakland Hills on northward slopes. Fl. May. fr. July. 



3. DISTEGIA, Raf. Stems erect. Leaves membranaceous. Flowers 

 in pairs on an axillary peduncle, each pair closely subtended by a pair 

 of ample foliaceous bracts. Corolla salverform or funnelform, gibbous 

 at base. Berries approximate but distinct, black when ripe, their sub- 

 tending bracts then dark red, more or less reflexed. 



1. D. Ledebourii (Each.). Stoutish, 5-15 ft. high, often with the 

 very long sarmentose branches reclining on other shrubs or small trees : 

 leaves : corolla strongly gibbous at base, strictly salverform above the gib- 

 bosity, the short rounded lobes spreading abruptly, the whole almost 

 scarlet without, yellow within. Common along streams throughout 

 western California, ranging northward far beyond our borders. 



4. CAPRIFOLIUM, Brunfels (HONEYSUCKLE). Trailing or climbing 

 shrubs, with subcoriaceous leaves occasionally stipulate, the upper pairs 

 usually connate-perfoliate. Flowers larger and showy, verticillate-spicate 

 at the ends of the branches. Calyx-limb small and 5-toothed, or obsolete. 

 Corolla bilabiate. Stamens 5, on the tube of the corolla. Ovary 23- 

 celled, becoming a few-seeded red or yellow berry. 



1. C. hispid u In in, Lindl., var. Californicnm, Greene. Twining, 10 

 25 ft. high, the ultimate branches often a yard or two in length and 

 drooping, hispidulous and somewhat glandular as to the upper portion 

 and about the inflorescence; leaves ovate-oblong or elliptical, acutish, 1 

 3 in. long, the lower pair without stipules, the intermediate with 

 broadly ovate stipular appendages often % in. long and as broad, the 

 one or two floral pairs connate, all very glaucous beneath, pale and 

 glaucescent above: spikes 1 5, each with 3 6 whorls of pink flowers: 

 corolla hispidulous, % % in. long; anthers exserted, narrowly linear, 

 2> lines long. Common in moist ravines and on shady banks, climbing 

 over small trees, along the seaboard chiefly. May July. 



2. C. interruptum (Benth.), Greene. Stoutish, erect and bushy, 4 

 7 ft. high, less disposed to twine or climb; bark of branches white and 

 almost shining, glabrous: leaves of a very pallid hue, white-glaucous 

 beneath, glaucescent above, 1 in. or more in breadth, mostly orbicular 

 or round-ovate, never stipulate, several of the uppermost pairs connate: 

 fl. numerous, in several interrupted spikes, corolla % in. long, yellow, 

 glabrous. Common on bushy hills of the inner Coast Ranges. 



