DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 47 



* Flowers round the margin of the cyme without stamens or pistils, 

 large and showy. 



a. (V. LANTANOIDES), HoBBLE-BUSII, \\"lTCH-IIOBBLE. A shl'ub 



about 5 ft. high, with the branches reclining and often rooting and 

 forming loops (whence the popular names). Leaves very large, 

 roundish, abruptly taper-pointed, serrate, with a rusty down on the 

 petioles and veiulets ; cymes very broad and showy ; fruit red, not 

 eatable. 



b. (V. Opulus), Cranberky Tree, High Bush Cranberry. A 

 handsome, upright shrub ; leaves 3-5-ribbed and 3-lobed ; fruit 

 bright red, juicy, very acid, and used as a substitute for cranberries. 



** Flowers all small and perfect. 



.c. (V. dentatum), Areowwood. (Name given from the fact 

 that the straight stems were used by the Indians for arrows.) A 

 shrub 5-10 ft. high ; leaves pale, roundish ovate, very shai-ply 

 toothed and strongly veined, often with tufts of hairs in the axils of 

 the veins ; fruit bright blue. 



d. (Y. prunifolium), Black Haw. Leaves smooth, shining 

 above, oval or obovate, serrate with fine, sharp teeth, obtuse or 

 nearly so, petioles hardly margined; fruit oval, somewhat flattened, 

 sweet and insipid, but eatable. 



III. LONICERA, HONEYSUCKLE. 



Calyx 6-toothed, with a short tube. Corolla tubular, 

 funnel-shaped or broader, 5-lobed, with the lobes somewhat 

 unequal. Stamens 5, projecting from the corolla-tube. 

 Ovary 2-3-celled, ripening into a several-seeded berry. 

 Shrubs, often, twining, with entire leaves, and usually showy 

 flowers. 



* Stems tiL'ining. 



a. (L. SEMPERViRExs), TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. Leaves ob- 

 long, pale beneath, rather thick, evergreen (at the South) ; flowers 

 not fragrant, whorled in short spikes ; corolla-tube lojig and narrow, 

 limb .5-lobed, nearly regular, usually scarlet outside and yellowish 

 inside; berries red. A native shrub, often cultivated, climbing 

 about 15 ft. high. 



ft. (L. Caprifoliuji), European Honeysuckle. Leaves 

 smooth and deciduou.«!, several of the upper pairs united at their 

 bases to form a flattish disk or somewhat cup-shaped leaf ; flowers in 



