HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 221 



8. LONICERA L. Honeysuckle. 



Corolla 3 cm. long, its limb slightly bilabiate; lobes short; leaves glabrous except the 



ciUate margins. 1. L. ciliosa. 



Corolla 2 cm. long, decidedly bilabiate; leaves hairy beneath. 2. L. gipucescens. 



9. DIERVILLA (Tourn.) Mill. Bush Honeysuckle. i. D. Diermila. 



Family 124. ADOXACEAE. Moschatel Family. 

 1. ADOXA L. Moschatel, Musk-koot. i. A. MoschatelKna. 



Family 125. LORANTHACEAE. Mistletoe Family. 



Anthers 3-celled, opening by an apical pore or slit; berry globose; both staminate and 

 pistillate flowers usiijflly 3-merous. 1. Phoradendron. 



Anthers 1-ceUed, opening by a transverse circular slit; berry compressed; staminate 

 flowers 3-merous, the pistillate ones 2-merous. 2. Eazoumofskya. 



1. PHORADENDRON Nutt. American Mistletoe. 



Leaves reduced to scales: pistillate flowers 2 on each intemode. 



Canescent; twigs terete;^pike several-jointed. 1. P. californicum. 



Glabrous; twigs blimtly 4-angled; spike l-jointed. 2. P . juniperinum. 



Leaves with well developed blades ; pistillate flowers 6 or more on each intemode. 



3. P. Cockerellii. 



2. RAZOUMOFSKYA Hoffm. 



staminate flowers all or nearly all at the ends of the branches, on distinct pedicels, dichoto- 



mously paniculate. 1. R. americana. 



Staminate flowers nearly all axillary, forming simple or compound spikes. 

 Branches 1-2 mm. in diameter. 



Plant yellowish green; accessory branchlets of fruiting specimens flower-bearing. 

 Spikes short, 3-5-flowered; stems bluntly angled. 



Rather simple, 1-3 cm. high; leaves and sepals obtusish, not distinctly 



keeled. 2. R. Douglasii. 



Stout, 3-5 cm. high, branched; leaves and sepals decidedly acute and keeled. 



3. R. laricis. 

 Spikes many-flowered; stems sharply angled. 4. R. cyanocarpa. 



Plant greenish brown; accessory branches merely leaf-bearing. 5. R. disaricata. 

 Branches 3-4 mm. in diameter. 6. R. cryptopoda. 



F.amily 126. SANTALACEAE. Sandalwood Family. 



1. COMANDRA Nutt. Bastard Toadflax. 



Flowers in corymbose cymes at the end of the stem; leaves sessile: style slender. 



Leaves all Unear, spreading or reflexed; hypanthiimi in anthesis cylindrical, constricted 



above. 1. C. linearis. 



Leaves at least those of the stem lanceolate, those of the branches narrower; hypan- 



thJum in anthesis turbinate, becoming constricted later. 2. C. pallida. 



Cymes 1-3-flowered on lateral pedimcles; leaves short-petioled; style short. 3. C. livida. 



Family 127. VALERIANACEAE. Valerian Family. 



Sepals minute or wanting; fruit 3-celled, but only one seed-bearing. 



Fruit laterally winged; stem not dichotomous. 1. Plectritis. 



Fruit wingless ; stem dichotomous. 2. Valerianella. 



Calyx-lobes inrolled in flower, in fruit expanding and pappus-like; fruit strictly 1-celled. 



3. Valeriana. 



1. PLECTRITIS DC. Corn Salad. i. p. macroptera. 



2. VALERIANELLA (Tourn.) Hill. Corn Salad, Lamb's Lettuce. 



1. V. Locusta. 



3. VALERIANA (Tourn.) L. Valerian, T'obacco-root. 



Leaves thick, the lower entire or with linear entire divisions, the veining almost parallel ; 

 plants with thick fleshy taproots. 

 Fruit and ovaries pubescent; bracts in the staminate plant linear-lanceolate. 



1. V. edulis. 

 Fruit glabrous. 



Fruit scurfy, muricate or rugose. 



Basal leaves oblanceolate; fruit broadly ovate; corolla of the staminate plant 



2.5-3 mm. wide; root thick. 2. V. trachycarpa. 



Basal leaves narrowly linear-oblanceolate; fruit narrowly ovate; corolla >' 

 staminate flowers less than 2 mm. wide; root rather slender. 



3. V. furfurescens. 



