Lonlccm^ CAPRIFOLIACE.E. 15 



distinct or connate : ours (the genuine species of the section)- all erect and 

 branching shrubs, with rather short corollas ; the calyx-limb minute or obsolete. 

 — Xi/Iiis/eij/!. Tourn.. Juss. Xylosteum. .Vdans.. Midix., ic. 



* Bracts at the summit of the peduncle small or narrow, often minute, sometimes obsolete or 

 caducous: bractlets to the two flowers minute or none. 



-1— Leaves glaucescent or pale both sides, oblong-elliptital, very short-petioled, reticulatc-vonulose 

 beneath : corolla ochroleucous, sometimes purplish-tinged, 4 to G lines long. 



L. CEBrulea, L. A foot or two high, from \illous-pubescent to glabmns or nearly so: 

 leases little over inch long, very obtuse: peduncles sluater than the flowers, usually very 

 short: corolla moderately gibbous at base, not strongly bilalii;ite (sometimes glalirous, 

 sometimes hairy): bracts subulate or linear, commonly larger than the ovaries; these 

 completely united, forming a gluliular 2-eyed (black and with the bloom blue) sweet-tasted 

 berry. — Spei. i. 1 7-t : Pall. Fl. IJoss. t. 37 : .'^ims. Bot. Mag. t. 1965 ; .Tacq. Fl. Austr. v . 

 Su])pl. t. 17; Hook. Fl. i. 2S:! ; Turr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 9: Herder, PI. IJadd. iii. 15, t 3. 

 L. villosa (Muhl. Cat.) & L. vehtina. DC. Prodr. iv. :3:37. exd. sm. in part. Xii/"simm 

 rilln.oim, Miclix. Fl. i. 106 (the Aery villous or hirsute form, L. ccerulea, var. villosa, Torr. & 

 Gray, I.e.); Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, sS ; Richards. Ajip. Fraukl. .Tour. A'. S'^hnis, Eaton, 

 I\fan. Bot. 518. — Moist ground, Newfoundland and Labrador, scmtli to the cooler parts of 

 Xew England, Wisconsin, &c.. north to the Arctic Circle, west to Alaska, and south in the 

 higher mouutaius to the Sierra Xevada, California. The American and E. -Vsian forms 

 somewhat different from the European. (Eu., X. Asia.) 



L. oblongifolia, Hook, a yard or more high, minutely pubemlent to glalirous, glau- 

 cescent : leaves 1 to 3 inches long: peduncles tlliform, commonly inch long : con lUa with 

 conspicuous gibbosity at base, deeply bilabiate, the narrow- lower lip separate far below the 

 middle: bracts minute or caducous: ovaries either distinct, or united at base, ur com- 

 pletely connate (even on the same plant): berries red or changing to crimson, mawkish. 

 — Fl. i. 284, t. 100; Torr. i Gray, 1. c. L. villosa, DC. 1. c. in part. X'/'ost.um obhurii- 

 fojium, (_;oldie in Edinb. Phil. Jour. vi. 323. — Bogs, Canada and X. Xew England and Xew 

 York to ^lichig:ui. 



-»— -^e— Leaves bright green, thinnish, ovate or oblong: peduncles slender: berries red: shrubs 

 with slender spreading or straggling branches. 



^-f Corolla dark dull pm-ple, strongly bilabiate : calyx -teeth subulate : bracts subulate, caducous. 



, L. conjugialis, Kellogg. Leaves pubescent when young, ovate or oval, often acuminate, 

 short-petioled (1 to ii inches long) : peduncles at least thrice the length of the flowers : 

 coroDa 4 or 5 lines long, gibbous-campanulate, with upper lip crenately 4-lolied; throat 

 with lower part of filaments and style very hirsute : ovaiie? two-thirds or whoUy connate. 



Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 67, fig. 15; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 133. L. Brewen, Gray. Proc. 



Am. Acad. vi. 537 vii. 349. — Woods of the Sierra Xevada, California and adjacent X'evada, 

 at 6,000-10,000 feet, first coh. by Veatch. Also mountains of Washington Terr., Howell, 

 i^iilcsdorf. 



-w- -H- Corolla honey-yellow or ochroleucous, rarely a sli.ght tinge of purple, oblong-funnelform, 

 two-thirds to three-fourths inch Ion;:, with .5 short almost equal lobes : the tube with a small but 

 prominent saccate gibbosity at base, merely pilose-pubescent within: calyx-limb barely 

 crenate-lobed or truncate : divergent ovaries and mostly the berries quite distinct, subtended 

 bv very small subulate bracts, and each with minute,rounded bractlets. 

 , L. Utahensis, Wats. Leaves oval or eUiptical-oblong, rounded at both ends, very short- 

 petioled, glabrous or nearly so from the first, or soon glabrate, not ciliate, reticulate-venulose 

 at maturfty (inch or two long) : peduncle seldom over half-inch long. — Bot. King Exp. 

 X33._jrountains of Utah, Watson, Parry, Sihr. Montana, and Cascades from ijregon to 

 Brit. Columbia. 

 L. ciliata, Mt-hl. (Flt-Hoxetsuckle.) Leaves ovate to ovaloblong, acutish or some- 

 what acuminate, loosely pilose-pubescent when young, especially the margins, 2 inches long 

 at maturitv, more distinctly petioled : full-grown peduncles two-thirds to nearly inch long : 

 berries distinct, light red, watery. — Cat. 22 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 235 : Hook. Fl. 1. c. ; Torr. & 

 Grav 1. c. L. Canadensis, Roem. & Schult. Syst. v. 260. Xyhjsttum Tartaricum, Jlichx. 



