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5. LINN^A, Gronov. T-\rix-FLOWER. (Dedicated to i(nn«7j4.) — Gro- 

 nov. in L. Gen. ed. i. iss. — Single species; fl. earl^v summer. 



■"~ L. bore41is, Ghoxov. Trailing and creeping evergreen, with filiform branches, somewliat 

 pubesL-ent: lea^■es obovate and rotund, half-inch to inch Ions, crenately few-toiithed, fume- 

 what rugose-veiny, tapering into a short petiole : peduncles filiform, terminating ascending 

 short leaty branches, bearing at summit a pair of small bract*, and from axil of each a fili- 

 form one-flowered pedicel, occasionaUy the axis prolonged and bearing another pair of 

 flowers ; pedicels similarly 2-bracteolate at summit, and a pair of larger ovate glandular- 

 hairy inner bractlets subtending the ovary, soon connivent over it or enclosing and even 

 adnate to the aliene-like fruit: flowers nodding: coroUa purplish rose-color, rarely almost 

 white, sweet-sceuteil, half-inch or less long. — L. Fl. L;ipp. t. 12, f. 4, i .Spec. ii. 6.31; 

 ■\Vahl. Fl. Lapp. 171, t. 9, f. 3; Fl. Uan. t. 3 : Siblc. Handb. t. 176; Lam. lU. t. 536 ; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. ii. 3. — Coul woud* and bogs, Xew England to Xew Jersey and mountains of 

 Jlaryland, north to Xe^vfoundland and the Arctic Circle, westward in the Eocky ilonntains 

 to Colorado and Utah, the Sierra Xe\-ada in Plumas Cu., California, and northwest to 

 Alaslian Islands ; in i_>regon, &c. ■\'ar. loxgifloea, Torr. in Wilkes S. Pacif, E. Ex. xvii. 

 287, with longer and more funnelform coroUa. (X. Eu., X. Asia, &c.) 



6. SYMPHORICARPOS, DUI. Sxowbeert, Ixdiax Cureaxt. 



(Sv/Ac^opew, to bear together, Kapnos, fruit, the berry-like fruits mostlv clustered 

 or crowded.) — Low and branching shruljs (X. American and ^Mexican), erect 

 or diffuse, not climbing ; with small and entire (occasionally undulate or lobed, 

 very rarely serrate) and short-petioled leaves, scaly leaf-buds, and 2-bracteolate 

 small flowers, usually crowded in axillary or terminal spikes or clusters, rarely 

 solitary, produced in summer; the corolla white or pinkish. — Dill., Elth. 371, 

 t. 278 ; Juss. Gen. 211 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 338 : Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 4; Gray, 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. xiv. 9. Symphoria, Pers. Syn. i. 214. 



§ 1. Short-flowered : corolla urceolate- or open-campanulate, only 2 or 3 lines 

 long. 



* Style bearded: fruit red: flowers all in dense and short axillary clusters: corolla 2 lines loug, 

 glaudular withiu at base. 



•"• S. vulgaris, Michx. (Cora]>beert, IxDi.iX CtTtRAXT.) Soft-pubescent or glabrate: 

 branches slender, often virgate, flowering from most of the axils : leaves oval, seldom over 

 inch long, exceeding the (1 to 4) glomerate or at length spiciform dense flower-clusters in 

 their axils : corolla sparingly bearded inside : fruits very small, dark red. — Fl. i. 106 : DC . 

 Prodr. iv. 339 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 4 ; Gray in Jour. Linn. Sijc. 1. c. 10. Si/inplmrimrpo-i, 

 Dill, 1. c. •>'. pari-iflora, Desf. Cat., &c. Lonicera Symphoricarpos, L. Spec. i. 175. Si/mplujria 

 conglomerata, Pers. 1. c. -S'. glomerata, Pursh, Fl. i. 162. — Banks of streams and among 

 rocks. W. Xew York and Penn. to Illinois, Xebraska, and Texas. 



Var. spicatUS (S'- spicatus, Engelm. in PI. Lindh. Ii. 215) is a form with fructiferous 

 spikes more elongated, sometimes equalling the leaves. — Texas, Lindheimer. 



* * Style glabrous : fruit white, in terminal and upper axillary clusters, or solitary in some axils. 



^"B' S. OCOidentalis, Hook. Cn'oLr-BEEET.) Eobust, glabrous, or slightly pubescent: leaves 

 oval or oblong, thickish (larger 2 inches long) : axillary flower-clusters not rarely peduncu- 

 late, sometimes becoming spicate and inch long : coroHa 3 lines high, 5-cleft to beyond the 

 middle, within densely ^-illous-hirsute with long beard-like hairs : stamens and style more 

 or less exserted. — Fl. i. 285 ; Torr. & Gray in Fl. ii. 4 : Gray in Jour. Linn. Soc. 1. e. •?'///(- 

 phoria occidentalis, R. Br. in Richards. App. Frankl. Jour. — Rocky ground, ilichigan to 

 the mountains of Colorado, ilontana (and Oregon ?), north to lat. 64°. 

 .■»— S. raoemosus, iliCHX. (Sxow-beeet.) More slender and glabrous: leaves round-oval 

 to oblong (smaller than in the preceding) : axillary clusters mostly few-flowered, or lowest 

 one-flowered : corolla 2 lines high, 5-lobed above the middle, moderately vUlous-bearded 

 within, narrowed at base : stamens and style not exserted. — Fl. i. 107 ; Hook. 1. e. ; Torr. 

 & Grav, 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. Si/mphoria racemosa, Pers. 1. c. ; Pursh, Fl. i. 169 ; E. Br. Bot. 



