OKDKR 66. HONEYSUCKLES. 225 



COHORT II. 



THE GAMOPETALOUS EXOGENS. 



EssentliX Character. Flowering plants (PH.ENOGAMIA) 

 with their steins growing by additions to the outside in lay- 

 ers (EXOGENS), their seeds inclosed in a seed-vessel or pericarp 

 (AtfGlospERMs), their flowers with a double perianth and 

 their petals united (MONOPETALJE). 



ORDER LXYI. CAPRIFOLIACE^E. Honeysuckles. 



Shrubs and herbs, often twining, with opposite leaves ; with 



flowers clustered and often fragrant, 5-parted and often irregular; 



corolla monopetalous, tubular or rotate ; 



stamens on the tube of the corolla, often one less than its lobes ; 



ovary adherent to the calyx ; style 1 ; fruit a berry, drupe, or capsule ; 



embryo small, in fleshy albumen. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



1 Corolla tubular. Stigma capitate, on a slender style. . . .2 



1 Corolla rotate, deeply 5-lobed. Stigmas 3, rarely 5, sessile. Shrubs e 



2 Herbs.... a 



2 Shrubs.... b 



a Stamens 4, capsule 3-celled. A trailing evergreen. T-icin-jlouur. LINN^'A I 

 a 8ta. 5, drupe bony, 3-5-celled. Erect, unbranched. Fever-root. TRIOS'TEUH 



b Cor. bell-shaped, reg'r. Berry glob., 4- celled, 2-seeded. SYMPHORICAR'PU* 



b Cor. tubular, lobes unequal. Berry 2-3-celled, few seeded, c. LONICE'RA. 



b Corolla funnel-shaped. Capsule 2-celled, many-seeded, e. DIERVIL'LA 

 e Leaves pinnate. Berry globose, pulpy, 3-seeded. Elder. SAMBU'CUS 



e Leaves simple. Drupe flattish, 1-seeded. Handsome shrubs, VIBUB'NCII 



1. LINNJE'A. Twin-flower. 



Calyx tube ovate, limb 5-parted, deciduous, with 2 bractlets at base. 

 Jorolla bell-shaped, limb a little irregular, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, 2 longer 

 than the other 2. Capsule 3-celled, but only 1-seeded, 2 of the cells being 

 empty. A trailing evergreen herb, dedicated to Linnaeus, the first and 

 greatest of botanists. 



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