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IV. LONICERA. Honeysuckle or Woodbine. 



(Latinized form of Lonitzer, German herbalist.) 



Erect or climbing shrubs, with opposite, entire, sometimes perfoliate 

 leaves. Flowers in clusters, or sometimes solitary. Calyx nearly 

 globular, slightly 5-toothed. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, more or 

 less irregularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla. 

 Ovary 2-3-celled, with numerous ovules in each cavity. Style slender 

 and stigma capitate ; berry fleshy. 



1. Lonicera SuUiv^ntii, Gray. (Latin genitive of proper name.) SuLLI- 

 VANT's Honeysuckle. Smooth and glaucus, 3 to 6 feet long. Leaves oval or 

 obovate, glaucus, and often pubescent beneath. Corolla pale yellow, hairy within, 

 its tube about ^ inch long. Filaments nearly glabrous. In woods. 



li. Lonicera sempervirens, L. (L., semper, always; virens, growing green.) 

 Trumpet or Coral Honeysuckle. Climbing high. Leaves oval, the upper- 

 most connate-perfoliate, dark green above, glaucus beneath. Flowers in whorls in 

 terminal, interrupted spikes. Corolla scarlet outside, yellow inside, and sometimes 

 yellow throughout, from i to \\ inches long, trumpet-shaped. Berries scarlet. 

 Common in cultivation. In copses, or habitat various. 



VALERIANACE.a;. Valerian Family. 



Herbs, with opposite, exstipulate leaves, and small, more or less 

 irregular flowers in forked or panicled cymes. Calyx tube adherent to 

 the ovary, its limb nearly or quite wanting, often becoming prominent in 

 the fruit. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, mostly 5-lobed, and sometimes 

 irregular. Stamens 1-4, inserted on the tube of the corolla alternate 

 with its lobes, mostly exserted. Ovary inferior, 1-3-celled ; l cell con- 

 taining a single ovule and the others empty. Style slender; stigmas 

 1-3. Fruit dry and indehiscent. 



I. VALERIANA. Valerian. 



(Latin name of unknown origin.) 



Perennial, mostly tall herbs with thickened, strong-scented roots, 

 and paniculate, cymose flowers. Limb of the calyx divided into several 

 plumose bristles which are inrolled in the flower, but straighten out and 

 become conspicuous in the fruit. The funnel-form or tubular corolla 

 gibbous near the base and nearly regularly 5-lobed above. Stamens 

 mostly 3. Fruit i-celled and seedlike. 



I. Valeriana paucifl6ra, Michx. (L.,/aacaj, few; yZoj,y?orM, flower.) Large- 



