2 1 8 Caprifoiiacecz L inncea. 



DIVISION II. -QAMOPETAL^E. 



Petals usually united, forming a monopetalous corolla. 



ORDER LVIL CAPRIPOLIACE^!. 



Shrubs or herbs with opposite usually exstipulate simple or 

 compound leaves and usually corymbose or cymose flowers. 

 Calyx-limb superior, 3- to 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla regular 

 or irregular, often 2-lipped. Stamens 4 to 10, inserted upon 

 the corolla. Fruit a berry, drupe, or dry capsule, indehiscent, 

 1- or more celled and seeded ; seeds albuminous, often with a 

 horny testa. There are about 200 species, in 14 genera, chiefly 

 from the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere. 



1. LINNJEA. 



A genus of one species. A small elegant creeping evergreen 

 shrub, named in honour of the celebrated Swedish botanist, 

 and thus possessing an additional attraction in the eyes of the 

 amateur. 



1. L. borealis. Leaves ovate, obtuse, crenate, nearly 

 glabrous. Flowers pink, very fragrant, in pairs, on slender 

 bracteolate axillary peduncles. Corolla campanulate. Stamens 

 4. Fruit small, 3-celled by abortion, 1-seeded. This charming 

 little plant is widely spread in Europe and temperate and 

 arctic Asia and North America, and is indigenous in the North 

 of England and some parts of Scotland, but nowhere very 

 abundant. It flowers in July. 



2. LONICERA. 



Erect prostrate or climbing shrubs with opposite simple 

 entire or lobed deciduous or persistent leaves and cymose or 

 capitate often fragrant flowers sometimes adhering together by 

 the ovaries in pairs. Calyx-limb of five often unequal teeth. 

 Corolla tubular or bell-shaped, gibbous at the base in some 

 species, with the limb oblique or 2-lipped. Stamens 5. Fruit 

 a fleshy 2- or 3-celled berry. There are upwards of eighty 

 species in the temperate and warm regions of the North. This 

 genus was named in honour of the German botanist Lonicer. 

 There is great confusion in the nomenclature of the Japanese 

 and Chinese Honeysuckles, arising probably from the fact that 

 many of them are garden varieties. 



1. L. Periclymenum. Honeysuckle or Woodbine. This 

 favourite indigenous shrub is surpassed by none of the exotic 



