HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 2JU9 



+- ■*- Shrubby, with cymose or axillary flowers. 



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

 entire or rarely wavy or lobed on some vigorous young shoots. 



6. SYMPHORICAKPUS. Flowers small, in cloBe 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 shrubs, with oval, short-petioled leaves. 



7. 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-celled, becoming a several-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-valvedpod; leaves simple, serrate. 



& 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. 



1. ADOXA. (Greek: obscure). 11 



A. Moschatellina, Linn. Radical leaves 1-3-ternate, the stem leaves 

 cleft or parted ; leaflets obovate ; head of flowers on a slender peduncle. 

 Wis., TV. and N. 



2. VIBURNUM, ARROWWOOD. (Ancient name, of uncertain 

 meaning.) Flowers white, or nearly so, in spring or early summer. 



* Mowers all alike, small, and perfect. 



4- Leaves not lobed nor coarsely toothed, smooth or with some scurf; fruit 

 black or with a bluish bloom. 



++ Leaves glossy, finely and evenly serrate with very sharp teeth. 



V. Lentago, Linn. Sweet V., Sheepberrt. Tree 10°-30° high, 

 common in moist grounds, chiefly N.; leaves ovate, conspicuously pointed, 

 on long-margined petioles ; cyme broad, sessile ; fruit oval, £' or more 

 long, sweet, edible. 



V. prunifdlium, Linn. Black Haw. Hardly so tall as the preced- 

 ing, with smaller and oval mostly blunt leaves. Dry soil, from Conn, 

 to Eans. and S. 



-* ** Leaves thick and rugose, dull, finely serrate. 



V. Lantana, Linn. Wayfaring Tree. Tall shrub, with short ovate- 

 cordate leaves, the lower surface and petioles and cymes scurfy-pubes- 

 cent; fruit red, becoming black. Eu. Cult, here under the name of 

 V. rug6sum. 



*+++++ Leaves entire or with a few wavy or crenate small teeth, thiekish. 



= Cyme more or less peduncled. 



II Leaf edges ciliate. 



V. T)nus, Linn. Laurestinus. Cult, from S. Eu., with evergreen 

 smooth entire leaves ; not hardy N.; a common house plant, winter-flower- 

 ing, or planted out in summer ; leaves oblong ; fruit dark purple. 



II || Leaf edges not ciliate. 



V. cassinoldes, Linn. Withe-rod. Leaves thiekish and dull, 

 ovate-oblong, the point bluntish, obscurely veiny and often irregularly 

 crenate-denticulate ; peduncle short and leafy ; shoots scurfy. Wet 

 grounds, N. 



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