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S3rmphoricarpos mollis Nutt. Whole plant covered with a short dense 

 pubescence; stems weak, reclining, 30-120 cm. long; leaves oblong to oval, 

 1-2 cm. long, entire or on vigorous shoots deeply and sinuately lobed, acute 

 or obtuse; flowers in clusters of 1-6; corolla pink, campanulate, 4 mm. long, 

 slightly villous within, the lobes obtuse, as long as the tube; stamens and 

 style included; berries white. In dry open woods in the mountains, infrequent. 



354. LONICERA. Honeysuckle. 



Erect or climbing shrubs; leaves opposite, mostly entire; 

 flowers in spikes or pairs; calyx minutely 5-toothed; corolla 

 tubular or funnelform, often gibbous at the base, more or less 

 irregularly 5-lobed, commonly 2-lipped; stamens 5, epipetalous; 

 ovary 2- or 3-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell; berry 

 several-seeded. 



Vine; flowers orange, in terminal clusters; upper leaves 



connate. L. ciliosa. 



Shrubs; flowers on axillary peduncles in pairs; upper leaves 

 not connate. 

 Bracts large, foliaceous; flowers yellow; berries black. L. involucrata. 



Bracts small; flowers whitish; berries red. L. utahensis. 



Lonicera ciliosa (Pursh) Poir. Stems slender, twining to a height of 

 3-7 m.; young parts glaucous; leaves oval, obtuse, glaucous beneath, 

 ciliate, 2-6 cm. long, short-petioled; uppermost pairs on the flowering branches 

 connate into oval or orbicular disks; peduncles terminal, rarely in the axils of 

 the penultimate pair of leaves; flowers sessile, in whorls; corolla yellow or 

 orange, sparsely hairy; tube narrow, gibbous near the base, 2-2.5 cm. long; 

 limb spreading, slightly 2-lipped; berries orange-red. In mountain woods. 



Lonicera involucrata Banks. Shrub, 1-3 m. tall, not twining; leaves 

 oblong, ovate or obovate, mostly acuminate, rounded or cuneate at base, 

 sparsely pubescent beneath or glabrate, S-15 cm. long, short-petioled; pe- 

 duncles axillary, shorter than the leaves; flowers yellow, a single pair, sur- 

 rounded at base by an involucre of 4-6 bracts, the inner ones of which are 

 united at base and become purple in fruit; corolla tubular with short lobes, 

 glandular-puberulent, 10-15 mm. long; berries black, not united. Along 

 streams, in the mountains. 



Lonicera utahensis Wats. Much branched shrubs, 1-2 m. high, not 

 twining; leaves oblong, oval or ovate, obtuse, pubescent beneath, and some- 

 what ciliate, 1-5 cm. long, short-petioled; flowers white or nearly so, in a pair 

 at the apex of the peduncles, 1-2 cm. long, with 2 small bracts at the base of 

 ovary; corolla oblong-funnelform, 2 cm. long, the 5 lobes nearly equal, the 

 tube with a sac-like projection at base; berries red, not united. In woods in 

 the mountains. 



Family 87. VALERIANACEAE. Valerian Family. 

 Herbs; leaves opposite, without stipules; flowers perfect or 

 dioecious, in panicled or clustered cymes; calyx-tube coherent 

 with the ovary; corolla gamopetalous, tubular or funnelform, 

 often irregular, 3-5-cleft; stamens distinct, 1—3, fewer than the 

 corolla-lobes, epipetalous ; ovary inferior, with one fertile 1-ovuled 

 cell and two abortive or empty ones; fruit indehiscent; endo- 

 sperm none. 



