470 CAPRIFOLIACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY) 



ioles and thread-like upright peduncles forking into 2 pedicels at the top, 

 each bearing a delicate and fragrant nodding flower. Calyx-teeth 5, awl- 

 shaped, deciduous; Corolla purple and whitish, hairy inside, narrow bell- 

 shaped, almost equally S-lobea. Stamens 4, 2 of them shorter, inserted 

 toward the base of the corolla. Ovary and the small dry pod 3-celled, but 

 only 1-seeded, 2 of the cells having only abortive ovules. 



1. Linnaea americana Forbes, Hort. Woburn 135. 1833. Somewhat pubes- 

 cent: leaves obovate and rotund, 1-2 cm. long, crenately few-toothed, some- 

 what rugose-veiny: peduncles filiform, terminating ascending, short, leafy 

 branches, bearing at summit a pair of small bracts, and from the axil of each 

 a filiform 1-flowered pedicel; pedicels similarly 2-bracteolate at summit, and 

 a pair of larger, ovate, glandular-hairy inner bractlets subtending the ovary: 

 flowers nodding. L. boreqlis. — From the mountains of California, Colorado, 

 and Maryland, northward to the arctic regions. 



4. SYMPHORICARPOS * L. Buckbrush 



Low and branching upright shrubs with shprt-petioled leaves, which are 

 entire, wavy-toothed, or lobed on the young shoots. Flowers white, tinged 

 with rose-color, in close short spikes or clusters. Calyx-teeth short, persist- 

 ent. Corolla regularly 4-5-lobed, with as niany short stamens inserted intp 

 its throat., Ovary 47celled, only 2 of the cells with a fertile ovule; the berry 

 therefore 4-celled, but only 2-seeded. Seeds bony. 



Corolla short-campanulate, 3-4 mm. long. 



Leaves thick; stamens and style exserted 1. S. occidentalis. 



Leaves rather thin; stamens and style included . . . , 2. S. racemosus. 

 Corolla longer (6-12 mm.), long-campanulate to tubular-funnelfonn 



Leaves tomentulose or hnely pubescent 3. S. rotundifolius. 



Leaves glabrous or nearly ao • . " 4. S. oreophilus. 



1. Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 285. 1833. Robust, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent: leaves oval or oblong, thickish (larger 5 cm. 

 long) : axillary, flower-clusters not rarely pedunculate, sometimes becoming , 

 spicate and 2-3 cm. long: corolla 3-5 mm. high, 5-cleft to beyond the middle, 

 within densely villous-hirsute with long beard-like hairs: stamens and style 

 more or less exserted. Wolfbebry. — Mountains of Colorado and Montana, 

 northward and eastward. ' 



la. Symphoricarpos occidentalis quercifolia A. Nels. Stems short, simple^ 

 erect: leaves large, coarsely and deeply undulate-toothed. — Infrequent; on 

 the plains in northern Wyoming. 



2. S3nnphoricarpos racemosus Michx. Fl. 1 : 107. 1803. More slender and 

 glabrous: leaves round-oval to oblong, smaller: axillary clusters mostly few- 

 flowered, or lowest 1-flowered: corolla 4 mm. high, 5-lobed above the middle, 

 moderately villous-bearded within, narrowed at base: stamens and style not 

 exserted. Snowbebby. — ^Across the continent. 



2o. Symphoricarpos racemosus pauciflorus Robbing, Gray, Man. Ed. 5. 

 203. 1867. Low, more spreading: leaves commonly only 2-3 cm. long, strongly 

 whitened underneath : flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, few and 

 loosely spicate in the terminal cluster. — ^Mountains of Colorado to those of 

 Oregon^ Vermont, and northward. 



3. Symphoricarpos rotundifolius Gray, PL Wright. 2: 66. 1853. Tomen- 

 tulose or glabrate; stems rigid, much-branched, 4-10 dm. high: leavfes or- 

 bicular to oblong-elliptical, thickish, 1-2 cm. long, entire or coarsely lobed: 

 corolla elongated-campanulate, 6-8 mm. long, the tube pubescent within be- 

 low the stamens, twice or thrice the length of the broad lobes: stamens and 

 style included: fruit white, globular or oblong: nutlets oval, equally broad and 

 obtuse at both ends. — ^Throughout our range and west to the Pacific. 



* The familiar coral-berry, Spmphoricarpos orMeulatus Moench, has been reported from 

 Colorado. It ia easily recognized by the clustered coral-red berries which persist through 

 the winter. . i ■ ^ 



