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5. LINN^A, Gronov. T-svix-plower. (Dedicated to Linnceus.) — Gro- 

 nov. in L. Gen. ed. i. 188. — Single species ; fl. early summer. 



L. borealis, Groxov. Trailing and creeping evergreen, with filiform branches, somewhat 

 pubescent : leaves obovate ami rotund, half-inch to inch long, crenately few-toothed, some- 

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

 short leafy branches, bearing at summit a pair of small bracts, and from axil of each a fili- 

 form one-flowered pedicel, occasionally 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 akene-like fruit : flowers nodding : corolla purplish rose-color, rarely almost 

 white, sweet-scented, half-inch or less long. — L. Fl. Lapp. t. 12, f. 4, & Spec. ii. 631; 

 Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 171, t. 9, f. 3 ; Fl. Dan. t. 3 ; Schk. Handb. t. 176 ; Lam.' 111. t. 536 ; Torr! 

 & Gray, Fl. ii. 3. — Cool woods and bogs, New England to New Jersey and mountains of 

 Maryland, north to Newfoundland and the Arctic Circle, westward in the Rocky Mountains 

 to Colorado and Utah, the Sierra Nevada in Plumas Co., California, and northwest to 

 Alaskan Islands ; in Oregon, &c. Var. loxgiflora, Torr. in Wilkes S. Pacif. E. Ex. xvii. 

 327, with longer and more funnelform corolla. (N. Eu., N. Asia, &c.) 



6. SYMPHORICARPOS, Dill. Snowberry, Indian Currant. 

 (2iyA<£ope'<o, to bear together, Kapnoi, fruit, the berry-like fruits mostly clustered 

 or crowded.) — Low and branching shrubs (N. 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., El th. 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 long, 

 glandular within at base. 



S. vulgaris, Michx. (Coral-berry, Ixdiax Currant.) 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. Soc. 1. c. 10. Symphoricarpos, 

 Dill, 1. c. .S'. parviftora, Desf. Cat., &c. Lonicera Syt7iphoricarpos,~L. Spec. i. 175. Symphoria 

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

 rocks, W. New York and Penn. to Illinois, Nebraska, 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. 



S. OCCidentalis, Hook. (AYolf-berry.) Robust, 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 : corolla 3 lines high, 5-cleft to beyond the 

 middle, within densely villous-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. c. Sym- 

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

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



S. racemosus, Michx. (Sxow-berrt.) 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 villous-bearded 

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

 & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. Symphoria racemosa, Pers. 1. c. ; Pursh, Fl. i. 169 ; R. Br. Bot. 



