i?68 THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



tire or toothed border, sometimes scarcely prominent. Co- 

 rolla monopetalous, 5- or rarely 4-lobed, regular or somewhat 

 irregular, with the lobes overlapping each other in the bud. 

 Stamens inserted in the tube of the corolla, and alternating 

 with its lobes, either of the same number or one less, or rarely 

 double the number. Ovary inferior, with 8 to 5 cells, and as 

 many stigmas, either sessile or borne on short styles, or united 

 on the summit of a single style. Fruit usually succulent, 

 with 1 to 5 cells. Seeds solitary or few in each cell, with a 

 fleshy albumen. 



The Honeysuchle family is not a veiy natural one, but tolerably well 

 rieflned, differing from the exotic opposite-leaved genera of the Madder 

 f:imily chiefly in the want of real stipules j from the Valerian and Teasel 

 families in the compound ovary. 



Sdsmas several. Corolla spreading, with a very short tube. 



Low herb. Leaves once, twiee, or thrice temate 1. Moschatel. 



Tall herb, or tree. Leaves pinnate 2. Ei.dkk. 



Shrubs. Leaves entire or pabnately lobed 3. Vlbcknum. 



Style single. Corolla narrowed into a tube at the base. 



shrubs or climbers. Stamens 5 4. Honbtsuckle. 



Trailing perennial. Stamens 4 5. LiA'if.EA. 



The Snowberry {Symphoricarpos), Leycesteria, and Weigela, of our gar- 

 dens, belong also to this famUy. 



I. imOSCATEI.. ADOXA. 



Leaves temately divided. Calyx with 2 or 3 spreading teeth or lobes. 

 Corolla with a very short tube, and 4 or 5 spreading divisions. Stamens 

 8 or 10, in pairs, alternating with the divisions of the corolla, and inserted 

 on a httle ring at its base. Styles 3 to 5, very short, united at the base. 

 Ovary 3- to 5-eelled, witli one ovule in each cell. Fruit a berry. 



A genus consisting of a single species, with very different foliage and 

 stamens from those of other CaprifoUacea, but in other respects much 

 more nearly allied to tlieni than to the Aralia family, among which it has 

 until recently been classed. 



1. Tuberous Sloscatel. Adoxa Moscliatellma, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 453.) 



A low, glabrous herb, of a light green colour in all its parts ; the root- 

 stock covered with a few thick scales the remains of old leafstalks, and emit- 

 ting creeping, half-underground runners. Eadical leaves stalked, once, 

 twice, or even three times ternate, witli broad, deeply 3-lobed segments. 

 Mower-stems radical, from 4 to 6 inches higli, with a single pan* of leaves 

 on short stalks, and but once ternate. Flowers pale green, in a little 

 globular head at the top of tlie stems, containing usually 5 ; the terminal 

 one with 2 divisions to the calyx, and 4 to the corolla, and 8 stamens ; 

 whilst the 4 lateral flowers have 3 divisions to the calyx, and 5 to the 

 corolla, with 10 stamens ; but these numbers are not quite constant. Berry 

 green and fleshy, most frequently containing but a single seed. 



On moist, shady banks, in woods and other shady places, especially in 

 hilly districts, in northern and central Europe, Russian Asia, and a part of 



