4GS CAPRIFOLIACJBAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY) 



7. Galium Brandegei Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 58. 1877. Perennial and 

 caespitose, forming dense mats; steiris low and prostrate or ascending, 5-12 cm. 

 long, slender and rather densely leafy, smooth or nearly ,f 6; branches when 

 present solitary: leaves in fours, unequal, obovate-spatulate, sniall, 10 mm. 

 or less, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, somewhat fleshy, dull on 

 both surfaces, i veins indistinct, margins and midrib glabrous: 'flowers lateral, 

 commonly geminate, on glabrous arcuate pedicels which are as long as or 

 longer than the leaves: corolla of medium, size, white, 3-parted, lobes broadly 

 oval, obtuse: fruit glabrous. — Colorado to New Mexico and f^r westward. 



8. Galium asperrimum Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. 4: 60. 1840. Stems erect 

 or diffusely ascending but weak, 1-2 dm. long: leaves lanceolate, 1-2 cm. 

 long: cymes twice or thrice dichotomous, with filiform peduncles aha pedicels: 

 corolla white or turning purplish: ovary merely puberulent or scabrous: 

 fruit granulate-scabrous and sometiiiieSi- minutely hispidulous. — Throughout 

 the western United States. ' ,.. i ^, ,, 



9. Galium coloradoense Wight, Zoe 5: 54. 1900. Glabrous and smooth> 

 paniculately branched, slightly woody at base: leaves 4 in the whorls, 

 sm6oth, linear, with prominent midrib, 1-3 cm. long, cuspidate-acute: flowers 

 dioecious, the fertile naked-paniculate: corolla about 2 mm. in diameter: 

 bristles of the mature fruit as long as the body or longer, somewhat crumpled 

 but not hooked. O. Mathewsii in part. Arid areas; southern Colorado. 



110. CAPRIFOLIACEAE Vent. Honeysuckle Family, , 



Shrubs or rarely herbs with opposite exstipulate le£!,ves and perfect mostly 

 cymose flowers. Calyx-tube adpate to the ovary. Corolla sympetalous, 

 5-lobed or rarely bilabiate. Stamens ,5 (4 in Linnaea), inserted on the tube' of 

 the, corolla and alternate with its lobes. Fruit a berry, driupe^ or capsule, 

 2-5-celled. , . 



Corolla short, rotate or urceolate; stigma nearly sessile; fruit drupar 



■ ceous. : , I 



Leaves pihhately compound ,1. Safnbuous. 



Leaves simple . J ', ' , ^ ' . . . ' , . .2. Viburnum, 



Corolla J tubular or campanulate; style elongated; fruit dry or berry- 

 like,,, , , i , ; 



Slightly wo,o'dy herb witn twin flowers . ' , , . . , 3.' Linnaea. 



Shrubs. ' ' . 



Corolla regular; fruit 2-seeded . , , . > , . ■ ■ .4. .SymphoricaTpos. 

 Corolla irregular; fruit few-^everal^seeded , . . • .5. Lonicera.' 



' Y" 1. SAMBUCUS L. Elder 



Shrubby plants, with a rank smell when bruised^ pinnate leaves, serrate 

 pointed leaflets,^ and numerous small : white flowers iii compound cymes. 

 Calyx-lobes minute or' obsolete.- Corolla open, urn-shaped, with a broadly 

 sjjreading 5-cleft limb. Stamens 5. Stigmas 3. Fruit a berry-like juicy 

 drupe, containing 3 small seed-like nutlets. 



Cyme, flat-topped; pith in yearrqld stems white. 

 , Bit6n,,tree-hke and long '^nduring; fnlit black beneath a 'copious ' ' 



' ' "■ blodni' ... . . . ' ■'. . . . ■. .1. S, glauc&. , 



. Stem short-lived; fruit purple-blacki almost devoid of bl6om , , . 2.,S.-Canadensis.,, 



Cymg not flat-topped| pitn, in year-old stem? yellowish-brown. , ,'■ ,' 



Leaves blackening in drying: fruit black . . . , . , 3. -S. 'melartocart)aJ 



Leaves not blackening in drying; fruit bright red . . , , 4. S. microbotrys 



1. Sambucus glauca N^tt. T. & G. Fl. 2;" 13. 1841.,' 'lAlrboresceiit, 2-4 m. 

 high, rthe larger with trunks 1-2 dm. an diameter, glabrous throughout: leaf- 

 lets 5-9, thickish, ovate to narrowly oblong, the, lower rarely 3-parted; ^tipels 

 rare and small, subulate or oblong: fruit; nearly black but strongly whitened 



