170 HONETStJCKLE FAMILY. 



4 3. ShribB or some low trees, with small flowers in broad cymes, short ami loidely 



open deeply b-bbed regular corolla, 1 - 3 sessile, stigmas, and berry-like fruit, 



Smtaininyl -3 seeds or rather seed-like stones. Calyx-teelli on the ovary very 



short or obscure ; stamens 5. 



6 VIBURNUII. Leaves simple. Fruit containing a single flat or flattish stone. 



7.' SAMBUCUS. Leaves piunate, and the oblong or lanceolate leaflets serrate. 



Fruit containing 3 seeds or rather small seed-like stones. 



1. TiTTTTf M A TWIN-FLOWER. (Named for LimuBus.) Only one 



species, 



L taoreklis. Mossy woods and cold bogs N. : creeping stems bearing 

 round-oval and sparingly crenate somewhat, hairy small leaves, and m early 

 summer the sweetscented flowers ; coroUa purple and whitish, hairy inside. 



2 TKIOSTEUM, FEVERWORT, HORSE-GENTIAN. (Gredc for 

 'three boms, from the 3 bony seeds or rather stones.) The root has been used 

 in medicine, and the seeds for coffee. In rich soil : fl. early summer. 

 T. perfoli&tum, the common species, is softly hairy, 2° - 4° high, with 

 oval leaves abruptly narrowed at base, and brownish-purple flowers. 



T. angustifdlium, chiefly S., a smaller andTjristly-hairy plant, with nar- 

 rower lanceolate leaves more tapering at base, and greenish or cream-colored 

 flowers. 



3. SYMPHORICABPUS. (Name from the Greek, denotes crowded 

 fruits.) Wild on rocky banks, especially W. & S., and -cult, for the orna- 

 mental insipid berries. Flowers white or slightly rose-color, produced all 

 summer. 



S. racembsus, Snowberrt. Clusters of flowers in interrupted leafy 

 spikes (rather than racemes) terminating the branches ; berries snow-white, in 

 autumn. Common in gardens. 



S. vulgaris, CoRAi^BERRY, IsTDiAN CcRRANT. Short clustcrs of flowcrs 

 in the axils of most of the leaves ; berries small, dark red. 



4. LONICEBA, HONEYSUCKLE, WOODBINE.' (Named for an old 

 German herbalist, Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus. ) 



§ 1. True Honeysuckles, with twining stems [in one wild species slightly so), 

 » Corolla with very long tube and 5 short almost regular lobes, 



L. semp6rTirens, Trumpet H. Wild from New York S., and com- 

 monly cult. Leaves evergreen (as the name denotes) only at the S., thickish, 

 pale beneath, the lower oblong, the uppermost pairs united round the stem ; 

 flowers scentless, in spiked whorls, 2' long, scarlet with yellow inside (also 

 a yellow variety), produced all summer ; ben'ies red. 



* * CoroUa strongly 2-lipped; lower lip narrow, upper one broad and 4-lohed. 

 -1- The 2 to 4 uppermost pairs of leaves united round the stem in the form of an oval 

 or rounded disk or shallow cup, the flowers se.tsile in their axils, or partly in 

 leqfiess spiked whorls beyond : berries red or oranqe. 

 *+ European Honeysuckles, cultivated for ornament : flowers purple and white or 



turning yellowish inside, sweet-scented, in summer. 

 Ii. Caprif61iuill, Common European H., has leaves smooth on both 

 sides, and flowers usually only in early summer. 



Ii. Etrtisca, Italian or Perpetual H., has the leaves downy beneath 

 and blunter, and flowers through the summer. 



*+ +* Wild species, with flowers smooth and nearly scentJess, except the first species, 

 > in late spring or early summer: leaves smooth (except one variety) and 



glaucous or whitish beneath. 



L. erkta,, Sweet Wild H. Wild in Middle States and S., sometimes 

 cult. : leaves obovate ; corolla white with a pink or purple slender tube, fading 

 yellowish, fragrant. 



