64 CAPRIFOLIACEM. (IIONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 
white, often reddish bracts, 14 to 3 inches long, abruptly acute. Fruit a large cluster of 
crimson berries. 
2. C. Canadensis, L. Stem simple, herbaceous, 3 to 8 inches high; leaves in a 
whorl of 6 at the top, and a pair below; the 4 bracts 4 to 8 lines long. 
* * Flowers white or cream colored, cymose, not involucrate. 
3. C. Californica, C. A. Meyer. A shrub, 6 to 15 ft. high, with smooth, purplish. 
branches; leaves ovate acute, obtuse at the base, 2 to 4 inches long, lighter colored. 
beneath, with loose, silky hairs; flowers in small, dense, round-topped cymes. 
4. C. glabrata, Benth. Bark gray; leaves oblong to narrowly ovate, acute at each. , 
end, alike green on both sides; flowers in open, flat cymes. 
GARRYA ELLIPTICA, Dougl. and G, Fremontii, Torr., dicecious shrubs, belong here, The ever- 
green coriaceous leaves are opposite on the 4-angled branchlets, the short petioles connate; the apeta- 
lous flowers in axillary aments. Leaves of the former elliptical, undulate margins; the staminate~ 
aments long; leaves of the latter ovate to oblong, not undulate, lighter green. 
DIVISION 2. GAMOPETALA 
Orver 28. CAPRIFOLIACEA:. 
In our species shrubs with opposite leaves, no stipules, the calyx adherent to the: 
2-5-celled ovary, the stamens as many as the lobes of the rotate or tubular corolla. 
Corolla rotate, regularly 5-lobed; white. ...........eeeeseeeceeeeeeeees Sambucus. 1. 
Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4-5-lobed, pinkish............ ....Symphoricarpus, 2 
Corolla tubular, irregular........ awrarreelnw waikeladde amare bee anos Reales ....Lonicera, 3 
1. SAMBUCUS, Tourn. ELprEr. 
Calyx teeth corolla lobes and.stamens 5. Stigmas3to5. Berries really drupes. 
Shrubs whose rank shoots are filled with a pith, half an inch in diameter. Leaves- 
pinnately 5-11-foliolate. Flowers small, in large compound cymes. 
1. S. glauca, Nutt. Cyme flat, 5-parted; fruit black, with a white bloom. 
2. &. racemosa, L. Cyme ovate or pear-shaped; fruit bright red. Rare. 
2. SYMPHORICARPUS, Dill) (Snowzerry). 
Calyx 5-toothed, occasionally 4-toothed, persistent. Corolla nearly or quite regular, 
from open campanulate to salver-form, 5-4-lobed. Stamens as many as the lobes of the- 
corolla, inserted on its throat. Fruit globular, white.—Low shrubs, with oval or ob-- 
