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Thicket* and hillsides. June. Shrub 4 to S feet high, very much branched, 

 yellowish bark. Leawessmall, 1 to 2inches long. Y 2 to% as wide. Flowers 

 profuse, pure white, in small conical cymes. Drupe* small, white or bluish. 



6. C. stolonifera, Michx. Red- Osier Dogwood. 



Stem often with running shoots: branches spreading, smooth; leaves ovate 

 rounded at base; abruptly acuminate; cymes small, flat, rather crowded; drupe 

 globose. 



Bogs and wot banks of streams. May. June. A small tree 8 to 10 feet high, 

 with smooth, slender, spreading branches, which are mostly red in winter. It 

 multii ate running suckers which send up red shoots forming large 



clumps Leaves distinctly veined, minutely pubescent, and whitish 



beneath, petiolate. Ftowt rs white, in .small cymes. Drupe small or lead colored. 



7. C. alternifolia, L. Alternate-leaved Dogwood. 



Leaves alternate, oval, long-pointe:!, acute at the base, whitish and minutely 

 pubescent underneath ; drupes glohose. 



Hillsides and moist shady woods. June. A small tree or shrub 8 to 20 feet 

 high, with, spreading one-sided branches forming a depressed summit. Bark 

 greenish, marked wi'th warty streaks. Flowers in broad open cymes, pale buff- 

 «olor. Fruit dark-blue. 



DIVISION II. 

 MONOPETALOUS EXOGENOUS PLANTS. 



Floral envelopes consisting of loth calyx and corolla, the 

 fatter composed of petals more or less united (monopetalous.) 



Order 54. CAPRIFOLIACEiE.— Honey -sucMe Plants. 



Shrubs or rarely herbs, often twining, with opposite leave?, no stipuhs, the calyx 

 tube coherent with the 2 to 5-cellcd ovary. Cokolla tubular or rotate, regular or 

 irregular. Stamens as many, or one less than as many, as the lobes of the corolla, 

 and inserted on its tube. Styles 1; stigma 1 to 4. Fruit a berry, drupe, or 

 capsule. 



Tribe 1. LONICEREiE. 



Corolla tubular, of ten irregularly cleft; style slender; stigma capitate 



1. LONICERA. Linn. 



In honor of Lonicer, a German botanist of the 16lh century. 



Calyx 5-tootked; teeth very short. Corolla tubular or 

 funnel-form, often swelled at the base, irregularly or nearly 

 regularly 5-lobed. Stamen^ 5. Ovary 2 to 3-ceiled. Stig- 

 ma capitate. Berry several seeded. — Climhing or erect 

 shrubs, with opposite and often connate entire leaves, and often 

 showy, fragrant flowers. 



* Capkifouum. Stem climbing; Jlowers in sessile vjhorlcd clusters from the ax&t 

 of the leaves. 



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