CAPKIFOLIACE^. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 163 



Division H. M0N0P:6tAL0US EX6GEN0US PLAl^TTS. 



Floral envelopes consisting of both calyx and corolla, the latter 

 composed of more or less united petals, that is, monopetalous.* 



Order 55. CAPRIFOLIACEiE. (Honeysuckle Family.) 



Shrubs^ or rarely herbs, mth opposite leaves, no (genuine) stipules, ike 

 calyx-tube coherent vnih the 2 - 5-celled ovary, the stamens as many as 

 (or one fewer than) the lobes of the tubular or wheel-shaped corolla, and 

 inserted on its tube. — Fruit a berry, drupe, or pod, 1 - several-seeded. 

 Seeds anatropous, with a small embryo in fleshy albumen. 



Synopsis. 



Tribh I. liONICEREJE. Corolla tubular, often Irregular, Bometimes 2-lipped. Styla 

 Blender : Btigma capitate. 



1. LINN^A, Stamens 4, one fewer than the lobes of the corolla. Truit dry, S-celled, but 



only 1-aeeded. 



2. SYMPHORICARPUS. Stamens 4 or 5, as many as the lobes of the bell-shaped regular 



corolla. Berry 4-celled, but only 2-8eeded. 



3. LONICEUA. Stamens 5- as many as the lobes of the tubular and more or less irregulM' 



corolla Berry several-seeded. 



4. DIBRVILLA, Stamens B. CoroUa funnel-form, nearly regular. Pod 2-ceIled, 2-TalTed, 



many-seeded. 

 6. TRIOSTEUM. Stamens 5< Corolla gibbous at the base. Truit a 3 -5-celled bony drupe. 



Teibe II. S AMBXJCE^. CoroUa wheel-shaped or urn-shaped, regular, deeply 5-lobed. 

 Stigmas 1-3, rarely 6, sessile. Flowers in broad cymes. 



6. SAMBUCnS. Fruit berry-like, containing 3 seed-like nutlets. LeaTes pinnate. 



7. VIBURNUM. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded flattish drupe, with a thin pulp. Leaves simple. 



1. IiIWN.3SA, Gronov, LiNNiEA. Twin-ploweh. 



Calyx-teeth 5, awl-shaped, deciduous. Corolla narrow bell-shaped, almost 

 equally 5-lobGd. Stamens 4, two of them shorter, inserted toward the base of 

 the corolla. Ovary and the small dry pod 3-celled, but only 1-seeded, two of 

 the cells being empty. — A slender creeping and ti'ailing little evergreen, sorae- 

 .what hairy, with rounded-oval sparingly crcnate leaves contracted at the base 

 into short petioles, and thread-like upi-ight peduncles forking into 2 pedicels at 

 the top, each bearing a delicate and fragrant nodding flower. CoroUa purple 

 and whitish, liauy inside. (Dedicated to the immortal Linncnus, who first point- 



* In. certain families, such as Ericaceae, &c. the petals in some genera are nearly or quite 

 separate. In Compositse and some others, the calyx is mostly reduced to a pappus, or to scales, 

 or a mere border, or oven to nothing more than a covering of the surface of the ovary. The 

 student might look for these in the first or th.e third division. But the arti/icial analysis pre- 

 fixed to the volume provides for ^ these anomalies, and will lead the student to the order 

 where they belong 



