282 VIBURNACE.E. xylosteon. 



CAPRIFOLIUM. 



ered axillary peduncles. Tube of the calyx ovoid or glandular, 

 the limb 5-toothed or obsolete. Corolla from campanulate to 

 tubular, more or less gibbous at base, the limb somewhat irregu- 

 lar and more or less bilabiate. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube 

 of the corolla. Style slender: stigma capitate. Ovary 2-H-celled, 

 with several pendulous ovules in each cell, becoming a few- 

 seeded berry. 



X. villosum Michx. Fl. i, 106. Lonicera cserulea of American au- 

 thors. Low, 1-2 feet high, pubescent or glabrate: leaves thin, pale or 

 glaucescent, ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, an inch or more long: pedun- 

 cles shorter than the flowers: corolla ochroleucous, gibbous at base, nar- 

 rowly funnelform, scarcely at all bilabiate: bracts subulate or linear, 

 commonly larger than the ovaries: ovaries completely united formng a 

 roundish or ovoid black but glaucous berry. In moist grounds, California 

 to Alaska and across the continent. 



X. couj ugialis Lonicera cunjugialis Kell. Shrub 3-5 feet high, fully 

 branching and bushy: leaves thickish, bright green, pubescent when 

 young ovate or oval, acute or acuminate, l-2, L o inches long, short peti- 

 oled : peduncles slender, 3-5 times the length of the dark, narrow flowers: 

 bracts subulate, caducous ; corolla 4-5 lines long, gibbous-campanulate, 

 the upper lip crenately 5-lobed, throat and lower part of filaments and 

 style very hirsute : berries dark red, almost wholly connate. On the high 

 mountains at 6,000-10,000 feet altitude, Washington to California. 



X. Utahensis Lonicera Utahensis Watson. Stems erect, 3-5 feet high 

 with loose, slender spreading branches: leaves oblong, subcordate at base, 

 obtuse glabrous, 2 inches long by one inch broad, on petioles 1-2 lines 

 long : peduncles axillary : bracts shorter than the ovaries : corolla 5 lines 

 long, obtusely saccate at base, bilabiate, the lobes half shorter than the 

 broad tube; style included: berries red, nearly distinct, globular, 2-3 

 lines in diameter, 2-4-seeded, on short peduncles. On high mountains, 

 Oregon to British Columbia, Montana and Utah. 



X. involucratum Richard A pp. Frankl. Journ. 6. Lonicera involn- 

 crata Banks. An erect shrub 2-10 feet high with slender erect branches : 

 leaves ovate-elliptical to lanceolate, acutish to acuminate, 2-3 inches long, 

 petioled: peduncles 1-2 inches long: corolla yellowish, viscid-pubescent. 

 6-8 lines long, tubular funnelform, with 5 short, scarcely unequal lobes ; 

 bractlets 2, viscid-pubescent at first, short, bovate or obcordate, in fruit 

 enlarging and loosely enclosing or surrounding the fruit : berries distinct, 

 black. On high mountains, Oregon to British Columbia and the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



X. Ledebou rii Lonicera Ledebourii Esch. Stems stout, 5-20 feet long, 

 often with the long vine-like branches reclining on or half climbing over 

 other shrubs or small trees : leaves ovate to lanceolate acute or acumi- 

 nate, short-petiolate 2-3 inches long, pubescent on the veins beneath and 

 on the margins: pednnc'es short: the flowers subtended by a pair ot 

 large, ovate foliaceous bracts, calyx-limb obsolete: corolla strongly gib- 

 bous at base, strictly salverform above the gibbosity, the short rounded 

 lobes spreading abruptly; berries distinct, black. Tide lands and river 

 bottoms, California to Alaska. 



6. CAPRIFOLIUM Juss. 

 LONICERA § CAPUT FOLUM DC I. c. (Honeysuckle) 

 Mostly twining shrubs with the upper leaves often connate- 



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rfoliate, and showV flowers sessile in spiked whorls at the 



