280 VIBURNACEJi. linnjsa. 



SYMPHORICAKPOS. 



lanceolate to narrowlv oblong, thickish, sharply serrulate, the lower ones 

 rarely 3-parted; cymes very large, flat; fruit blue with a den&e bloom. 

 Common from British Columbia to California. 



Tribe S.. Lonicerese R. Br. Corolla elongated or at least cam- 

 panulate, commonly more or less irregular. Styles elongated. 

 Stigma mostly capitate. Stipules or stipular appendages seldom 

 seen. 



3 LIMJSr^i Gronov. L. Gen ed. i, 118. (Twin-Flower.) 



Creeping or trailing evergreen herbs with broadly oval, spar- 

 ingly crenate leaves and showy, drooping flowers, on 2-flowered 

 peduncles. Calyx with the limb 6-parted into subulate-lanceo- 

 late lobes constricted above, the globular tube, deciduous from 

 the fruit. Corolla campanulate-funnelforni, not gibbous, almost 

 equally 5-lobed. Stamens 4, 2 long and 2 shorter. Ovary 3- 

 celled, 2 of the cells containing several abortive ovules ; the other 

 with a solitary, suspended, perfect ovule, forming the single seed 

 in the dry and indehiscent coriaceous 3-celIed small fruit. Style 

 exserted : stigmas capitate. 



L. borealis Gronov. L. Fl. Lap. t. 12 f. 4. Somewhat pubescent; 

 branches filiform, leaves round to obovate, 6-12 lines long, crenately few- 

 toothed ; somewhat rugose-veiny, tapering into a short petiole: peduncles 

 filiform, terminating, ascending, short leafy branches, beariuir at summit 

 a pair of small, leafy bracts and, from the axil of each a filiform, 1-flow- 

 ered pedicel, rarely the axis prolonged sind bearing another pair of flow- 

 ers : pedicels similarly 2-bracteolate at summit and a pair of larger ovate, 

 glandular-hairy inner bractlets subtending the ovary, soon connivent over 

 it or enclosing and even adnate to the akene-like fruit : flowers nodding : 

 corolla purplish to rose-color or almost white, a half inch or less long In 

 forests, California to Alaska and across the con inent 



L. longiflora. L. borealis var. longiflora Ton. Stems filiform, 1-4 feet 

 long, trailing and sending up numerous erect, filiform branches: leaves 

 round to obovate, crenate-toothed above, 4-12 lines long, narrowed below 

 to a short petiole : peduncles filiform, 2-4 inches long, terminating the 

 erect branches, 2-bracteate at the summit, 2-flowered ; pedicels filiform, 

 2-bracteolate and the flowers subtended by an involucel of two ovate, 

 hairy bracts : corolla pink or rose-color, to nearly white, funnelform, ti-8 

 lines long. In forests, Washington to California. 



4 SYMPHORICAEPOS Dill. Elth. 371, t. 278. (Snowberby.; 



Low, branching shrubs with entire or lobed leaves on short 

 petioles, scaly leaf-buds and 2-bracteolate .small flowers, usually 

 crowded in axillary or terminal spikes or clusters, rarely soli- 

 tary. Calyx wiith a globular" tube and 4-5-toothed, persistent 

 limb. Corolla regular, not gibbous, from short-cam panulate to 

 salverform, 4-5 lobed. Stamens as many as lobes of the corolla, 

 inserted on its throat. Ovary 4-celled ; 2 cells containing a few 

 sterile ovules, the alternate cells containing a single, suspended 

 ovule. Fruit a globose, berry-like drupe containing 2 small and 

 Seed-like, bony, smooth nutlets, each filled by a seed. 



