396 CAPRTFOLIACEAE. 



more delicate habit than the preceding and with thinner leaves; leaves oval 



or elliptic, mostly % in. Long, seldom other than entire, pubescent on both 

 surfaces or more so on the lower surface; corolla rose-red, barely pubescent 

 within, otherwise like the last. 



Coast Ranges, not common (Mt. Diablo, Monterey, San Luis Obispo Co.); 

 Sierra Nevada. Apr.-May. 



S. oreophilus Gray. Corolla tubular funnelform, 5 or (i lines long. — High 

 Sierra Nevada. 



3. LONICERA L. Honeysuckle. 



Erect or twining shrubs with simple entire leaves, one or two pairs beneath 

 the inflorescence often connate-perfoliate. Flowers spicate at the ends of the 

 branches or in small axillary clusters. Calyx-tube ovoid or almost globose, 

 the limb 5-toothed or truncate, deciduous or persistent, mostly small, sometimes 

 none. Corolla with an elongated tube more or less gibbous at base; limb bila- 

 biate with the upper lip 4-lobed or -toothed, or regular and the 5 lobes scarcely 

 unequal. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla. Ovary 2 or 3-celled, 

 becoming a few- to several-seeded berry. (Adam Lonitzer, a German herbalist 

 of the 10th century.) 



Erect shrubs; flowers in pairs on an axillary peduncle; corolla nearly regular 



1. L. involucrata. 

 Twining shrubs; flower-whorls in terminal spikes; corolla irregular. 



Flowers pink; leaves, except the lowest, with stipule-like appendages; corolla his- 



pidulous-glandular without 2. L. hispidula. 



Flowers yellow; leaves mostly without stipule-like appendages; corolla glabrous without.. 



3. L. interrupta. 



1. L. involucrata (Kichards) Banks. Black Twin-berry. Erect shrub, 

 4 to 7 ft. high; leaves opposite (or, on the lower portion of the season's shoot, 

 ternate), oblong, varying to ovate or lanceolate, l 1 /? to 3% in. long, on very 

 short petioles; flowers sessile, borne in pairs, side by side on axillary peduncles 

 and subtended by conspicuous broad bracts which become reddish in age; 

 peduncles solitary in the axils, % in. in fruit, 1 in. long; corolla saccate- 

 gibbous on the upper side at base and with 5 subequal spreading lobes, 8 

 lines long, yellow within and without, or somewhat crimson-tinged exteriorly, 

 viscid-pubescent; filaments coalescent with the tube about midway; berries 

 black, 3 to 5 lines in diameter, disagreeable to the taste. 



Along canon streams in the mountains throughout California. Mar.-May. 

 Not reported from inner Coast Range. 



L. conjugialis Kell. Bracts minute at the base of the partly or wholly 

 united ovaries; corolla dark purple, bilabiate, the broad upper lip barely 4- 

 toothed. — Sierra Nevada. L. coerulea L. Bracts 2, linear-subulate, longer 

 than the united ovaries; corolla yellowish white; berry blue. — Sierra Nevada. 



2. L. hispidula Dougl. var. californica (Greene) Jepson. California 

 Honeysuckle. Climbing bushes or trees 6 to 20 ft. high, the woody trunk 

 Bometimes 1 in. in diameter and the ultimate branches often 3 or 4 ft. long and 

 drooping; leaves more or less glaucous, oblong, ovate, or elliptic-oblong, truncate 

 or subcordate at base, 2 to 3 in. long, l 1 ^ to IV2 in- wide, short-pctioled and all 

 except the lowest with conspicuous rounded connate-perfoliate stipule-like ap- 

 pendages; corolla pink, 6 to 7 lines long, glandular-hispidulous without, the 

 tube within and the lower portion of the filaments very hairy; anthers exserted; 

 berries red. 



Frequent in canons and along streams of the Coast Ranges: Santa Cruz; 

 Berkeley; Napa Valley. Also Sierra Nevada. Apparently not in t ho inner 



('oast Ranges. 



