HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Caprifoliaceae. 
There are several kinds of Symphoricarpos, of North 
America and Mexico; low, branching shrubs, with small 
leaves, scaly leaf-buds, and small, pink or white flowers, 
with two bracts, in clusters; the calyx roundish, with four 
or five teeth; the corolla regular, more or less bell-shaped, 
with four or five lobes; the fruit a roundish, white or red 
berry, containing two bony seeds. We often find Snow- 
berries cultivated in old-fashioned gardens. 
An attractive shrub, about four feet 
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ae bas high, with slender branches and yellowish 
racemosus twigs. The pretty leaves are mostly 
Pink smooth, rich green, but not glossy, paler _ 
Spring, summer 
us and sometimes downy on the under side, 
thin, but rather crisp in texture, usually 
with a few shallow scallops along the margins. The 
flowers are about a quarter of an inch long, with bell- 
shaped corollas, purplish-pink outside, white and woolly 
in the inside, the stamens and style not protruding. The 
berry is large and pure-white, with white, almost tasteless 
pulp, which is said to be slightly poisonous. This is very 
common in California, in the hill country, and is found 
across the continent. 
A straggling shrub, from two to three 
ee Le feet high, with small, slightly velvety, 
longiflorus rather pale green leaves, white on the 
White under side, sometimes set edgewise on the 
aes stem. The flowers are about half an 
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inch long, with a slender, white, salver- 
form corolla, with widely separating lobes and very smooth 
inside, the anthers partially protruding from the throat, 
and the pretty berries are waxy-white. This grows at 
the Grand Canyon. 
A branching shrub, not especially 
aupakoaeae pretty, about three feet high, with shreddy 
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eenietas bark, pinkish twigs, and light, bluish- 
Pink green, toothless leaves, usually smooth. 
Spring, summer The flowers are about half an inch long, 
Ase Heh with a tubular corolla, with short lobes, 
flesh-color, tinged with purplish-pink, the 
stamens and style not protruding and the buds purplish- 
pink. This grows in the mountains, up to age or ten 
thousand feet. 
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