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Division II. GAMOPETALJE. 



Perianth consisting of both calyx and corolla, the latter 

 more or less gamopetalous, that is, with petals united. 



Order 39. CAPRI FOL.IACE7E. (Honeysuckle Family.) 



Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with opposite leaves, no stipules, the calyx- 

 tube adnate to the 2 to 5-celled ovary, the stamens mostly as many as 

 the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, inserted on its tube or 

 base. Flowers commonly 5-merous. 



* Corolla regular, short, rotate or open-campanulate : style short or hardly any ; stigmas 



3 to 5: fruit baccate-drupaceous : inflorescence terminal aud cymose. 

 •«- Herb, with stamens doubled and flowers in a capitate cluster. 



1. Adoxa. Calyx with hemispherical tube adnate to above the middle of the ovary : limb 



about 3-toothed. Corolla rotate, 4 to 6-cleft. Stamens a pair below each sinus 

 of the corolla, each with a peltate one-celled anther. Ovary 3 to 5-celled. Fruit 

 greenish, maturing 2 to 5 cartilaginous nutlets. 

 •+- ■*- Shrubby to tree-like : stamens as many as corolla-lobes : inflorescence compound- 

 cymose : anthers 2-celled : calyx 5-toothed. 



2. Sambucus. Leaves pinnately compound. Corolla rotate or nearly so. Ovary 3 to 5- 



celled, forming small baccate drupes. 



3. Viburnum. Leaves simple, sometimes lobed. Corolla rotate or open-campanulate. 



Ovary 1-celled and 1-ovuled, becoming a drupe. 



* * Corolla commonly more or less irregular, elongated or at least campanulate: style 



elongated ; stigma mostly capitate. 



■*- Herbaceous, creeping, with long-pedunculate geminate flowers and dry one-seeded fruit, . 

 but a 3-celled ovary. 



4. Linnsea. Calyx with a 5-parted limb, constricted above the globular tube. Corolla 



campanulate-funnelform, almost equally 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. 

 Style exserted. 

 t~ -t- Shrubs, with scaly winter buds, erect or climbing : fruit two to many-seeded. 



5. Symphoricarpos. Calyx with a globular tube and 4 to 5-toothed limb. Corolla regu- 



lar, not gibbous, from short-campanulate to salverform, 4 to 5-lobed. Ovary 4-celled. 

 Fruit a globose berry-like drupe, containing two small and seed-like bony nutlets. 



6. Lonicera. Calyx with ovoid or globular tube and a short 5-toothed or truncate limb. 



Corolla from campanulate to tubular, more or less gibbous at base ; the limb irregular 

 and commonly bilabiate, sometimes almost regular. Ovary 2 to 3-celled. Fruit a few 

 to several-seeded berry. 



1. ADOXA, L. Moschatel. 



An anomalous genus in this order. Cauline leaves a single pair : a very 

 small herb, a span or less high, with musky odor. 



1. A. Mosehatellina, L. Glabrous and smooth : radical leaves once to 

 thrice ternately compound; cauline pair of leaves 3-parted or of 3-obovate 

 and 3-cleft or parted leaflets : flowers small, greenish-white or yellowish, 4 or 



