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Slender shrabs with small pinkish regular flowers : berries white 4 



^ Shrubby climbers or erect shrubs with irregular tubular flowers B 



1. SAMBTJCUS, Toumefort. 



Cymes round-topped; pith of year-old shoots yellow-brown 1, 2 



Cymes flat-topped, 1-sided: pith white: berries black 8, 4 



1. S. racemosa, L. Cymes ovoid or oblong: flowers dull white: berries scarlet. 



2. S. melanocarpa, Gr. Cymes broader: flowers white: fruit black, no bloom. 

 ^3. S. glauca, Nutt. Leaves smooth: fruit black with a white bloom. (ERder-btrry. 



i. S. Mezicana, Presl. Leaves and long shoots hairy: fruit black, no bloom. 



2. VIBTTBITUM, Linnaeus. 



Drupes light red, globose, acid: leaves all or some of them lobed 1, 2 



Drupes bluish-black, flattened, elliptical: leaves not lobed 3 



1. V. optilus, L. Cymes on several-leaved branches. Or. & Wash., E. & N. 



2. V. pauciflorcun, Pylaie. Cymes on short 2-leaved branches. Wash., N. & E. 



.3 V. ellipticum. Hooker. Leaves 3-5-ribbed: corolla 4 or 5 lines broad. N. CaL.N. 



3. I.INN.S:A, Gronovins. 

 I. Ii. borealis, Gronov, Corolla funnelform, 4 or 5 lines long: stamens 4. 



4. SYMPHORICARPOS, Dillenius. 



Corolla broadly campannlate, 2 or 3 lines long.' 1, 2 



Corolla narrowly campanulate, 3 to 6 lines long S, 4 



1. S. racemoSUS, Michx. Smooth: corrlla hairy, narrow at base. 



2. S. mollis, Nutt Mostly soft-hairy, diffuse: corolla broad at base. 



3. S. rotundlfolius, Gr. Leaves orbicular to elliptical, 6 to 9 lines long. 



4. S. oreopliylus, Gr. Corolla 4 to 6 Imes long, scarcely hairj': nutlets sharp, 



5. LONICEKA, linnaus. 



Erect shrubs: flowers in axillary pairs on a single peduncle. 



Ovaries § or wholly united to form a single berry: bracts subulate 1. 2 



Ovaries distinct or nearly so: corolla saccate at base, yellowish 3, 4 



Woody climbers: flowers sessile, clustered: upper leaves often united 5, 6 



1. L. csemlea, L. Only I or 2 ft. high: leaves pale: corolla yellowish or purplish. 



2. L. conjugialis, Kellogg. Corolla dull purple, bilabiate, 4 or 5 lines long. 



3. Ij. TTtahensis, Watson, Bracts small: berries red: peduncles short. 



4. Ii. involucrata. Banks. Bracts large, becoming red: berries purple black. 



5. Ii. ciliosa, Poir. Corolla an inch long, yellow to crimson-scarlet. 



*-Ji. L. hispidula, DougL Corolla 6 lines lone, the lobes half as long: variable. 



