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slender peduncle, and dark. blue oval fruit J- long. Wood tough, hard to split. 

 Leaves changing to bright crimson in autumn. 



N. ac[uatica, Watek Tupelo, of the S., in pine-barren swamps^; with 

 smaller leaves than in the preceding (1' - 2' long) and varying from lance-oblong 

 to roundish, short peduncles, the fertile 1 - 2-flowered, and smaller oval fruit. 



W. unifldra, Lakge Tupelo ; in water, from Virg. and Kentucky S. -. 

 large tree, with leaves ovate or oblong, acute, often with a few sharp teeth, 

 4' - 6' long, on slender petioles, downy beneath ; fertile peduncles long and 

 1-flowered ; fi'uit oblong, about 1' long. Wood soft : roots veiy spongy, used 

 for corks. 



» * Sterile flowers in a head: Mong fruit red and eatable. 



W. capit^ta, Ogeechee Lime ; so called from the acid fruit (1' or more 

 long) ; in swamps far S. : a small tree, with oblong or obovate leaves (3' -5' 

 long) downy beneath ; fertile flowers solitary on very short peduncles. 



11. MONOPETALOUS DIVISION. Includes the orders of 

 this class which have both calyx and corolla, and the latter in one 

 piece, that is, the petals united more or less into one body. 



57. CAPRIFOLIACE^, HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with calyx adherent to the 2 — 5-celled 

 ovary (the teeth or limb above it sometimes nearly obsolete or ob- 

 scure), stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla (or in Linnaea 

 one fewer) and borne on its tube, and opposite leaves without 

 stipules. Yet in some species of Viburnum there are little append- 

 ages imitating stipules on the base of the petiole. Seeds with a 

 small embryo in fleshy albumen. 



§ 1. Perennial herbs, mth bell-shaped or tubular corolla, prominent awl-shaped or 

 linear lubes to the calyx, and a slender style tipped viilh-a capitate stigma. 



1. LINNjEA. a pair of flowers nodding on the summit of a slender soape-like 



geduncle. Corolla narrow bell-shaped, with 5 almost equnl rounded lobes, 

 tamens 4, two of them shorter. Ovary and small pod 3-celled, but perfect- 

 ing a seed in only one cell. Creeping evergreen herb. 



2. TRIOSTEUM. Flowers sessile in the axils of the leaves, single or in a cluster. 



Corolla oblong-tubular, with 5 short almost equal lobes, scarcely longer than 

 the leaf-like lobes of the calyx. Stamens 5, equal. Fruit fleshy, orange or 

 red, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes, containing 3 bony seeds or 

 rather nutlets. Erect and coarse leafy herbs; their leaves narrowed at base, 

 but united around the simple stem. 



§ 2. Shrubby, with tubular or bell-shaped corolla, slender style, and capitate stigma. 

 « Teeth of the calyx very short on the 2 - i-celled ovary : fruit a berry : leaves simple, 



entire, or rarely wavy or lubed on some vigorous young shouts. 

 8. SYMPHORICARPUS. Flowers small, in close clusters or interrupted spikes. 

 Corolla bell-shaped, with 4 or 5 equal roundish lobes and as many short 

 stamens in the throat. Ovary 4-celled, but the berry only 2-seeded, two cells 

 being empty. Low -upright s'hrubs, with oval short-petioled leaves. 

 4. LONICERA. Corolla tubular, funnel-form, or oblong, more or less irregular, 

 being gibbous or bulging on one side at base, and the 5 lobes not all alike, but 

 in one species nearly so. Stamens 5. Ovary 2 - 3-oeUed, becoming a sev- 

 eral-seeded berry, twining or upright shrubs. 

 « * Teeth or lobes of the calyx slender, on the summit of the slender or taper-pointed 



ovary which becomes a many-seeded 2-vaioed pod : leaves simple, serrate. 

 6. DIERVILLA. Corolla funnel-form, almost regular, 5-lobed. Stamens 5. 

 Ovary narrow, sometimes linear and stalk-like. Low upright shrubs, with 

 flowers in terminal or axillary loose clusters or cymes. 



