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lobes; — evergreen twining vine with oval or oblong leave-?, the 

 upper pairs connate; corolla scarlet or orange outside, yellow 

 inside; berries scarlet. Mar^rins of swamps and cultivated. 



Lonicera sempervirens, Coral Honeysuckle, Woodbine 



3. Flowers solitary or in axillary cymes, often panicled; corolla 5-lobed 

 or sometimes slightly 2-lipped; — shrubs with spreading, more 

 or less arching branches, and petioled serrate leaves; corolla 

 white, yellowish, or pink to crimson; fruit a slender 2-celled 

 capsule with numerous minute seeds. Cultivated. Diervillea, Weigelia 



3. Flowers in terminal panicles, corolla trumpet-shaped, 5-lobed; — 

 half evergreen shrub with ovate, serrate, short-petioled leaves; 

 sepals 5; corolla white flushed pink. Summer. Cult. 



Abelia grandiflora 



167. Valerianaceae, Valerian Family. 



Commonly heavy-scented herbs; stems dichotomously 

 branched, or erect, or climbing, or almost absent; leaves 

 opposite, entire to pinnate; flowers in panicled cymes, 

 perfect, monoecious or dioecious; calyx 3-5 lobed or obsolete; 

 corolla 3-5 lobed, tubular, funnel or salverform; stamens 

 1-4. fewer than the corolla-lobes, and adnate to its tube; 

 ovary inferior, 3-celled or apparently 1-celled; style fili- 

 form, stigma sometimes cleft; fruit an achene or a nutlet. 



Flowers perfect in terminal spicate or panicled cymes; calyx-border in- 

 rolled but at length spreading and forming plumose bristles; 

 corolla funnel- or salverform, gibbous, 5-lobed, white or pink; 

 stamens 3. ovary 1-celled, style 2-3 cleft. - Valeriana 



V. scandens, Valerian. Stem climbing, branched; basal leaves entire, ovate- 

 cordate; stem-leaves terminately divided, long petioled; flowers very small, 

 funnelform. in axillary and terminal panicles. 



168. Asaraceae (Aristolochiaceae), Birthivort Family. 



Herbs or woody vines with alternate, petioled, mostly 

 cordate or hastate leaves, and solitary or clustered flow- 

 ers; calyx present, corolla rudimentary or absent; sta- 

 mens as many as calyx-lobes, or more; ovary inferior, 

 usually G-celled; fruit a capsule. 



Flowers irregular, variously inflated; calyx colored; stamens 6, rarely 

 4-10, adnate to the 4-6 angled column formed by the styles; 

 capsule pendulous, 4-6 valved with numerous se> 



Aristolochia, Dutchman's Pipe 



A. serpentaria, Snake-root. Low herb with a mure or less zigzag stem and few 



oblong-lanceolate, acuminate leaves on short petioles; flowers solitary* or 



clustered on branched peduncles; calyx s-shaped. 3-lobed. dull purple. 



Shady woods. Summer. 



Some species are cultivated as: A. elegans with dark-purple flowers, blotched 



and waved with creamy-white; A. floribunaa with purplish-red flowers and yellow 



