Lonicera. 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. 

 — Xylosteon, Tourn., Juss. Xylosteum, Adans., Michx., &c. 



# 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-elliptical, very short-petioled, reticulate-venulose 

 beneath : corolla ochroleucous, sometimes purplish-tinged, 4 to 6 lines long. 



L. caerulea, L. A foot or two high, from villous-pubescent to glabrous or nearly so : 

 leaves little over inch long, very obtuse : peduncles shorter than the flowers, usually very 

 short: corolla moderately gibbous at base, not strongly bilabiate (sometimes glabrous, 

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

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

 berry. — Spec. i. 174; Pall. Fl. Ross. t. 37; Sims, Bot. Mag. t 1965; Jacq. F! Austr. v. 

 Suppl. t. 17; Hook. Fl. i. 283; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 9; Herder, PI. Eadd. iii. 15, t. 3. 

 L. villosa (Muhl Cat.) & L. velutina, DC. Prodr. iv. 337, excl. syn. in part. Xylosteum 

 villosum, Michx. Fl. i. 106 (the very villous or hirsute form, L. cazrulea, var. villosa, Torr. & 

 Gray, 1. c); Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 88; Richards. App. Frank! Jour. X. Solonis, Eaton, 

 Man. Bot. 518. — Moist ground, Newfoundland and Labrador, south to the cooler parts of 

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

 higher mountains to the Sierra Nevada, California. The American and E. Asian forms 

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



L. oblongifolia, Hook. A yard or more high, minutely puberulent to glabrous, glau- 

 cescent : leaves 1 to 3 inches long : peduncles filiform, commonly inch long : corolla 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, or com- 

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



— F! i. 284, t. 100; Torr. & Gray, ! c. L. villosa, DC. ! c. in part. Xylosteum oblongi- 

 folium, Goldie in Edinb. Phi! Jour. vi. 323. — Bogs, Canada and N. New England and New 



York to Michigan. 



+- -f— Leaves bright green, thinnish, ovate or oblong: peduncles slender: berries red: shrubs 

 with slender spreading or straggling branches. 



++ Corolla dark dull purple, strongly bilabiate : calyx-teeth subulate : bracts subulate, caducous. 



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

 short-petioled (1 to 2-J inches long): peduncles at least thrice the length of the flowers: 

 corolla 4 or 5 lines long, gibbous-campanulate, with upper lip crenately 4-lobed; throat 

 with lower part of filaments and style very hirsute : ovaries two-thirds or wholly connate. 



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

 Am. Acad. vi. 537, vii. 349. — Woods of the Sierra Nevada, Calif ornia and adjacent Nevada, 

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

 Suksdorf. 



++ ++ Corolla honey-yellow or ochroleucous, rarely a slight tinge of purple, oblong-funnelform, 

 two-thirds to three-fourths inch long, 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 

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



L. Utah^nsis, Wats. Leaves oval or elliptical-oblong, rounded at both ends, very short- 

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

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

 133. — Mountains of Utah, Watson, Parry, Siler. Montana, and Cascades from Oregon to 

 Brit. Columbia. 



L. ciliata, Muhl. (Fly-Honeysuckle.) Leaves ovate to oval-oblong, acutish or some- 

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

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

 berries distinct, light red, watery. — Cat. 22 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 235 ; Hook. F! ! c. ; Torr. & 

 Gray, ! c. L. Canadensis, Rcem. & Schult. Syst. v. 260. Xylosteum Tartaricum, Michx. 



