130 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA 



surrounded by 4 leaf -like bracts; berries dark purple, not united in pairs. 

 Rocky Mt. valleys. 



6. L. tatarica, L. Tartarian Honeysuckle. 



A large upright glabrous shrub with pink or white flowers and red or 

 yellow double berries. Much used in cultivation, but' not escaped so far. 



7. L. oblongifolia, (Goldie) Hook. Swamp Fly Honeysuckle. 



Leaves 1-2 in. long, pubescent when young, glabrous or nearly so when 

 mature; corolla yellow, or purplish within, deeply 2-lipped, the tube swollen 

 on'one side; flowers in pairs on slender peduncles; fruit red, generally united. 

 Swamps, E. Man. 



2. SYMPHORICARPUS. Snowbebbt. 



Calyx 4 or 5-toothed, persistent; corolla 4 or 5-lobed, bell-shaped; 

 stamens 4 or 5, inserted in the throat of the corolla ; berry 4-celled, 

 2-seeded. Low shrubs with simple opposite leaves on short petioles, 

 and pinkish flowers in short spikes or clusters. 



1. S. occidentalis. Hook. Wolfbbeby 



A shnib 1-4 ft. high; flowers in dense terminal or axillary spikes; corolla 

 bearded within; stamens and style exserted; fruit white. Dry prairie, 

 Man.-Alta. 



2. S. racemSsus, Michx. Snowbekey. 



Similar to preceding, but flowers in short interrupted terminal spikes; 

 corolla hairy within; style and stamens included. Not a common western 

 form, Man.-Alta. ' 



3. Var. paucifldrus, Robbins. 



A low-spreading shrub about 10 in. high or less; flowers in small terminal 

 spikes or solitary in the upper axils. Local from Lake Winnipeg to Rocky 

 Mts. 



3. LINN.ffiA. Twin Floweb. 



Calyx 5-toothed, the teeth sharp and deciduous; corolla equally 

 5-lobed, bell-shaped ; stamens 4, two of them shorter; fruit a small, 

 dry, 3-celled, but 1-seeded pod. A slender creeping evergreen vine 

 with rounded leaves on short petioles, and delicate, nodding, pink 

 flowers borne in pairs on a slender forked peduncle. The only 

 plant bearing the name of the great Linnaeus. 



1. L. bore^lis, L., var. americana, (Forbes) Rehder. 



The only species, and found in cold moist woods across the continent. 



