HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Capri foh'aceas. 



finally dull crimson -magenta. The smaller bees and 

 honeybees are common visitors. 2-5 feet high. Rocky 

 slopes. Mass. , banks of the Delaware River in N. J. , and 

 Pa., south to Ga. and Tex., west to the Daks. 



^ ^ A familiar shrub of old-fashioned gar- 



Snowberry , , , n .,, , , . 



Syniphoricarpos dens and door-yards still commonly culti- 

 racemosus vated, with smooth, erect, gray-brown 



Pink and white branches, and oval, dull gray -green leaves 

 June-August ligj^ter beneath, toothless, and a trifle 

 wavy -margined. The young shoots are ochre brown. 

 The tiny, five-lobed, bell-shaf)ed flowers are pink graded 

 to white, and are borne in terminal and leaf -angle clus- 

 ters. The corolla is conspicuously tine-hairy within ; 

 and the stamens and style almost protrude. The honey- 

 bee is a constant visitor, and the flowers continue to 

 bloom even after the large snow-white waxy berries ap- 

 pear ; the latter are a conspicuous feature of the bush in 

 early September. 3-4 feet high. On roadsides, escaped 

 from cultivation, and on rocky banks, from Me., south 

 to Pa. and Ky., and west to Minn., S. Dak., and Cal. 



A thin straggling bush with smooth, 

 suckle brownish stems. The thin leaves bright 



Lonicera light green on both sides, ovate lance- 



ciliata shaped, sometimes very broad at the 



Naples yellow ^j^gg^ toothless, short-stemmed, and hair}- 

 edged. The Naples yellow or honey 

 yellow, five-lobed flower, about f inch long, is funnel- 

 formed and borne in pairs at the leaf-angles. Fruit two 

 small ovoid red berries. 3-5 feet high. Moist woods, 

 from Me., south to Pa., and west to Minn. 



A similar species but with thickish, 

 hon"ys^uckle^~ blunt ovate leaves fine-hairy beneath. 

 Lonicera The Naples yellow flowers in pairs, al- 



ccerulea most united. The ovaries unite and form 



one two-eyed, gray-black ovate berry, 1-3 feet high 

 In boggy woods, the same distribution. 



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