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slender peduncle, and dark blue oral fruit ^' long. Wood tough, hard to split. 

 Leaves changing to bright, drimspn in autumn. 



N. acLUd:tica, Water Tupelo, of the S., in pine-barren swamps; with 

 smaller leaves than in the preceding ^1' - 2' long) and varying from lance-oblong 

 tc roundish, short peduncles, the fertile 1 - 2-flowered, and smaller oval fruit. 

 ■ N". Illlifl6ra, Large Tupelq ; in water,' from Virg. and Kentucky S. : 

 large tree, with leaves ovate or oblong, acute, often with a few siiarp teeth, 

 4' -6' long, on slender petioles, downy beneath; fertile peduncles long and- 

 1 -flowered ; friiit oblong, aboiit 1' long. Wood soft : roots very spongy, used 

 for corks. 



* * Sterile Jlovoers in a head : 6blon(j fruit red and eatable. 



"S. capitkta, Ogbechee Lime ; so called from the acid fruit (1' or more 

 long) : in swamps far S. : a small tree, with oblong or obovate leaves (3' - 5' 

 long) downy beneath ; fertile flowers solitary on very short peduncles. :<'j 



11. MONOPETALOUS DIVISION. Includes the orders of 

 this class which have both calyx and corolla, and the latter in one 

 piece, that is, the petals united more or less into one body. 



57. CAPE,IPOLIACE.ffi!, HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with calyx adherent to the 2 - 5-celled 

 ovary (the teeth or limb above it sometimes nearly obsolete or ob- 

 scure), stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla (or in Linnasa 

 one fewer) and borne on its tube, and opposite leaves without 

 stipules. Yet in some species of Viburnum there are little append- 

 ages imitating stipules ■ on the base of the petiole. Seeds with a 

 small embryo in fleshy albumen. 



§ 1. Perennial heris, with bell-tlmped or tubiUar corolla, prominent awl-dtaped or 

 linear lobes to (tie calyx, and a slender style tipped mtti a capitate stigma. 



1. LINN^A. A pair of flowers nodding on the summit of a slender scape-like 



peduncle. Corolla narrow bell-shaped, with 5 almost equal rounded lobes. 

 Stamens 4, two of them shorter. Ovary and small pod 3-celled, but perfect- 

 ing a sieed in onlj' one cell. Creeping evergreen herb. 



2. TRIOSTEUM. Flowers sessile in the axils of the leaves, single ;or in a cluster. 



Corolla oblong-tubular, with 5 short almost equal lobes, scarcely longer than 

 the leaf-like lobes of the calyx. Stamens B, equal. Fruit fleshy, orange or 

 red, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes, containing -8 bony seeds or 

 rather nutlets. Erect and coarse leafy herbs; their leaves narrowed at base, 

 but united ground the simple stem. , 



4 2. Shrubby, with ttxbalar or bell-shaped corolla, slender style, and capitate stigma. 

 « Teeth of the calyx very short on the 2- i-celled ovary : fruit a berry : leaves simple, 

 entire, or rarely wavy or lobed on some vigorous-younff shoots. ' 



5. SYMPHORICAEPUS. Flowers small, in close clusters or interrupted spikes. 



Corolla bell-shaped, with 4 or 5 equal roundish lobes and- as many, short 

 stamens in the throat. Ovary 4-celled, but the berry only 2-seeded, two cells 

 being empty. Low upright shrnbs, with oval short-petioled leaves. 

 4. LONICERA. Corolla tubular, fuririel-form, or oblong, more or less irregular, 

 being gibbous or bulging on one side at base, and the 6 lobes not all alike, but 

 in one species nearly so. Stamens 5. Ovary 2 - 3-cellcd, becoming a sev- 

 eral-seeded berry. Twining or upright shrubs. 

 • # Teeth or lobes of the calyx slender, on tlie summit of the slender or taper-pointed 

 ovary, which becomes a many-seeded i-valved pod : leaves simple, serrate. 



6. DIEKVILLA. Corolla funnel-form, almost regular, 6-lobedi Stamens 6. 



Ovary narrow, sometimes linear and stalk-like. Low upright.shrttbs, with 

 flowers in terminal or axillary loose clusters or cymes. 



