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CC. Leaves not coriaceous, not evergreen, blade usually larger; fruit berrylike, 



2-4-seeded; plainly a shrub or tree, vine to erect, often climbing or reclining. 



D. Corolla regular, 12 mm. or less long; ovary 4-celled; berry white, 2-seeded; 



leaves entire or dentate or irregularly lobed, not united at base; shrub, erect 



or rarely trailing. SYMPHORICARPOS (p. 213) 



DD. Corolla irregular, 12 mm. or more long; ovary 2-3-celled; berry red or 



black, 2-4-seeded; leaves entire or merely sinuate, upper pair sometimes 



united at base; shrubs or trees, erect or often trailing or a climbing vine. 



LONICERA (p. 214) 

 SAMBUCUS (Elder) 



Leaflets serrate to laciniate. Flowers small, white or pinkish, in cymes. 

 Corolla rotate, regular. Stamens s, on base of corolla. Ovary 3-5-celled ; 

 style 3-parted. — (Gk. sambuke = a musical instrument ; said to have been 

 made of Elder.) 



A. Inflorescence flat-topped; pith in i-year-old stems white or slightly brownish; 

 berries black but gray with a bloom. W. C. E. S. glauca {tree elder) 



AA. Inflorescence conic; pith in i-year-old stems yellowish brown. — Both these have 

 edible fruits. 

 B. Fruit black, without a bloom; leaves blackening in drying. C. E. 



S. melanocarpa (blace: elder) 

 BB. Fruit bright red to yellow; leaves not blackening in drying. W. C. E. 



S. callicarpa (red elder) 



VIBURNUM (Amowwood) 



Flowers white or pink, in compound cymes, the outer flowers sometimes 

 raylike and neutral. Calyx limb short. Corolla rotate or short-campanu- 

 late, regular. Stamens 5. Ovary 1-3-celled; style 3-lobed or -parted. — 

 (Said to be from L. mere = to tie; because the twigs of some are very 

 pliable.) 



A. Leaves or some of them 3-lobed; fruit red, its stone not or hardly grooved on 



either face. 



B. Erect shrub; cyme 6-10 cm. wide, its outer flowers much larger than the others. 



W. C. V. opulus (high-bush cranberry) 



BB. Straggling shrub; cyme 1-3 cm. wide, its outer flowers not larger than the others. 



C. E. V. pauciflonim (squash berry) 



AA. Leaves not lobed, merely dentate above the middle; fruit black, its stone grooved 



on both faces; cyme 4-10 cm. wide, its outer flowers not larger than the others. 



W. C. E. V. ellipticum (black haw) 



SYMPHORICARPOS (Snowberry) 



Flowers 2-bracteolate, white or rose colored. Calyx tube spherical. 

 Corolla short-campanulate to salverform. Stamens s, on the corolla throat. 

 Berry globose, white. — (Gk. syn = together, phero = I bear, karpos = 

 fruit; from the clustered berries.) 



A. Corolla 2-4 mm. long. 

 B. Erect; leaves glabrous. W. C. E. S. racemosus 



