472 CAPRIP'OLIACE^. 



1. S. racemosus Michx. Snow Berky. Erect or spreading, 

 with slender branches, commonly 3 to 4 ft. high; leaves round-oval 

 to ovate or oblong, entire or on the same branohlet sinuately few- 

 toothed or saliently lohed, glabrous or the lower surface pubescent, 

 commonly 1 (less commonly as much as 2) in. long, short-petioled; 

 calyx-lobes cillate; corolla pinkish, 2 lines long, 5-lobed above the 

 middle, densely villous-hirsute within; berr}' globose, 4 to 6 lines in 

 diameter; pulp snowy, nearly tasteless; seeds 2, oblong, flat on one 

 side, low-convex on the other, nearly or quite 2 lines long. 



Very common throughout California in the hill country. 



2. S. mollis Nutt. Low diifuse shrub about 1 ft. high, of some- 

 what more delicate habit than the preceding and with thinner leaves; 

 leaves oval or elliptic, mostly J in. long, seldom other than entire, 

 pubescent on both surfaces or more so on the lower surface; corolla 

 rose-red, barely pubescent within, otherwise like the last. 



Coast Ranges, not common (Mt. Diablo, Monterej-, San Luis 

 Obispo Co.); Sierra Nevada. Apr.-May. 



S. ORBOPHiLTrs Gray. Corolla tubular-funnelform, 5 or 6 lines 

 long. — High Sierras. 



3. LONICERA L. Hoxetstjcklb. 

 Erect or twining shrubs with simple entire leaves, one or two pairs 

 beneath the inflorescence often connate-perfoliate. Flowers spicate at 

 the ends of the branches or in small axillary clusters. Calyx-tube 

 ovoid or almost globose, the limb 5-toothed or truncate, deciduous or 

 persistent, mostly small, sometimes none. Corolla with an elongated 

 tube more or less gibbous at base; limb bilabiate with the upper lip 

 4-lobed or -toothed, or regular and the 5 lobes scarcely unequal. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla. Ovary 2 or 8-celled, 

 becoming a few- to several-seeded berry. (Named for Adam Lonitzer, 

 a German herbalist of the 16th century.) 



Erect shrub; flowers in pairs on an axillary peduncle; corolla nearly 



regular . . . 1. i. involucrata. 



Twining shrub ; flower-whorls in terminal spikes. 

 Flowers pink; leaves, except the lowest, with stipule-like appendages; 

 corolla hispidulous-glandular without; var. Califomica of 



2. X. hispidula. 

 Mowers yellow; leaves mostly without stipule-like appendages; corolla 

 glabrous without . .x: . , . . .3. L. interrupta. 



1. L. involucrata (Richards) Banks. Black Twin-bebky. 

 Erect shrub; stems with shreddy bark, 4 to 7 ft. high, or much 

 longer and reclining on other shrubs; leaves opposite (or, on the 

 lower portion of the season's shoot, ternate), oblong, varying to ovate 

 or lanceolate, usually acute or acuminate, IJ to 3f in. long, on very 

 short petioles; flowers sessile, borne in pairs, side by side on axillary 

 peduncles and subtended by conspicuous bracts; peduncles solitary in 

 the axils, 2 or 3 from each node, about 7 lines long, in fruit twice as 

 long; bracts in 2 sets, 2 outer and 4 inner or these commonly united 

 in pairs; outer bracts round-ovate, cm-date at base, J in. long; inner f 

 in. broad, broader than long; corolla saccate-gibbous on the upper 



