16 CAPRIFOLIACE^. Lonicera. 



Fl. i. 106. X ciliatum, Pursh, Fl. i. 161, excl. var., which is Si/mphoricarpos racemosus 

 according toNutt. Vaccinium album, L. Spec. i. 350, specimen of Kalm. — Kocky moist 

 woods, New Brmiswick to the Saskatchewan, and New England to Penn. and Michigan. 

 Flowering in spring, when the leaves are developing. 



L. Tartaeica, L., of the Old World, with rose-colored flowers, is commonly planted as an 

 ornamental shrub. 



* * Bracts at the summit of the peduncle oblong to ovate or cordate and foliaceous: bractlets 

 conspicuous and accrescent. 



' Li. involucrata, Banks. Pubescent, sometimes glabrate, 2 to 10 feet high : leaves from 

 ovate to oblong-lanceolate, from a,cutish to acuminate, 2 to 5 inches long, petioled : peduncles 

 an inch or two long, sometimes 3-flowered : corolla yellowish, viscid-pubescent, half-inch 

 or more long, tubular-funnelform, with 5 short hardly unequal lol)es : bractlets 4 or united 

 into 2, viscid-pubescent, at first short, obovate or obcordate, in fruit enlarging and enclosing 

 or surrounding the two globose dark-purple or black berries. — Spreng. Syst. i. 759 ; DC. 

 Prodr. 1. c. 336; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1119; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 280. 

 L. Ledebourii, Esch. Mem. Acad. Petrop. (1826) x. 284; DC. 1. c. L. Mociiiiana, DC. 

 1. c, probably from California, not Mexico. L. intermedia, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 

 154, fig. 47. XiiJii^feum inroJucratum, Pichards. App. Prankl. Journ. 6. — Wooded grounds, 

 from Gaspe' Co., Lower Canada (Allen), and S. shore of Lake Superior northward, west to 

 Alaska, southward in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and Utah, and nearly throughout 

 California. 



§ 2. Caprifolium, DC. Flowers sessile in variously disposed terminal or 

 axillary clusters, commonly quasi-verticillate-capitate : corolla more or less elon- 

 gated : berries orange or red at maturity : stems climbing (t^i'ining) : upper leaves 

 usually combined into a connate-perfoliate disk. — Oaprifolium, Juss. 



* Limb of corolla almost regular or slightly bilabiate, very much shorter than the elongated 

 tube: stamens and style little exserted: flowers nearly scentless. — Peridymenum, Tourn. . 



Tr.UJlPET-HoXEYSUCKL,ES. 



"L. sempervirens, L. Evergreen only southward, glabrous: leaves oblong, glaucous or 

 glaucescent beneath, uppermost one or two pairs broadly connate : flowers in 2 to 5 more 

 or less separated whorls of 6: the spike pedunculate: corolla scarlet-red varying to 

 crimson and yellow inside, or sometimes wholly yellow ; the narrow tube inch or more long ; 

 lobes sometimes almost equal, sometimes short-bilabiate, merely spreading, seldom over 

 2 lines long. — Spec. ii. 173 (Ilerm. Hort. Lugd. 484, t. 483) ; Ait. Kew, i. 230; Walt. Car. 

 131 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1781, & 1753; Bot. Reg. t. 556; Torr. & Gray, El. ii. 5; Meehan, 

 Nat. Flowers, ser. 2, i. t. 45. L. Yirgininna & L. Caroliniana, Marsh. Arbust. 80. Capri- 

 folium sempervirens, Michx. FL 105; Pursh, Fl. i. 160; Ell. Sk. i. 271. — Low grounds, Con- 

 necticut and Indiana to Florida and Texas. Commonly cultivated. (There are indications 

 of a nearly related species in Lower California.) 

 L. Ciliosa, Pom. Leaves ovate or oval, glaucous beneath, usuallv ciliate, otherwise glabrous; 

 uppermost one or two pairs connate into an oval or orbicular disk : whorls of flowers single 

 and terminal, or rarely 2 or 3, and occasionally from the axils of the penultimate pair of 

 leaves, either sessile or short-peduncled : coroUa glabrous or sparingly pilose-pubescent 

 yellow to crimson-scarlet, with thicker tube than the preceding, more ventricose-gibbous 

 below; hmb slightly bilabiate; lo\^er lobe 3 or 4 lines long. — Diet. v. 612; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 333; Torr. & Gray, 1. u. Caprifolium ciliosum, Pursh, Fl. i. 160. C. occi'dentak Lindl. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1457. Lonieera occidentalis. Hook. Fl. i. 282. — Rockv Mountains in Jlontana 

 to the coast of Brit. Columbia, the mountains of California and of Arizona. From mouu- 

 tams near Chico, California, comes a form which, by nearly naked margin of leaves and 

 three-whorled pedunculate spike, makes transition to L. semperrirens. 



* * Limb of corolla i-ingent; the spreading or recurved lips comparativelv large, and stamens 

 and style conspicuously exserted. — Caprifolium, Tourn. TnuE Hoxey'suckles. 



H- Tube of corolla elongated (fully inch long), wholly glabrous in,,i,lc, as are stamens and stvie: 

 flowers very fragrant: Atlantic s].c>ies resembling the cultivated Italian or Sweet Hnnovsuckle 

 of Middle and S. Europe, L. Ciprifolium, L. 



