50 CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
ers many in axil th : 
broadly campanulate, pinkish, mm. pn ihe Siete lobes mm. long, densely villous-hirsute 
within ; cont somewhat exceeding the corolla-lobes ; qe Ley or glabrous, exserted; fruit 
6-8 mm. n dia ace greenish white, becoming discolored in 
cai tion and Canadian Zones; British ei and ae nogan County, Washington, eastward 
o Mich tading yor Tinos _ south to northern New Mexico. Type locality: es <i lat. 54° and 64°,’’. Collected 
id Richardson. July—A 
4. Se Sain vaccinioides Rydb. Mountain Snowberry. Fig. 5040. 
Symphoricarpos mollis . acutus A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 12: 14. 1884, in part. 
Symphoricarpos eacinioides Rydb. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 371. 1900. 
Symphoricarpos austiniae Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 499. 1903. 
Symphoricarpos Jeedadetdiees Hacelatol es A. Nels. in Coult. & Nel org ca Bot. Rocky Mts. 471. 1909. 
Symphoricarpos rotundifolius acutus Frye & Rigg, Northwest FI. ai, 
A low erect shrub 8-15 dm. high with dark brown bese ~ es and smooth or shreddy bark; 
young branchlets light brown, linely ee ap rulent Pike a short curved hairs. pains oval, 
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sparsely viloee within, the lobes rounded and dasaes: one e-third ae Pee the tube; anthers 1.5 
mm. long, a pie qualing t bh filaments, included; style glabrous, included; fruit about 10 mm. 
long and ode ellipsoid. 
Dry slopes eine ridges, ree Transition and Canadian Zones; British Columbia south through the Cascade 
eas ay mostly the eastern slope es, and the Siskiyou Mountains area, Oregon and California; also the Sierra 
Nevada to Tulare County, California, and | eae tod eastward to Montana, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Type 
locality: ‘‘Forks of the Madison,” Montana. June-Aug 
5. Symphoricarpos parishii Rydb. Parish’s Snowberry. Fig. 5041. 
Symphoricarpus feta Rydb. ona baie rs so 545. 1899, 
Symphoricarpos g s Eastw. cit. ie 497. 
Symphoricarpos pial) oom ed op. 
Low spreading shrub, the br: oe often declined and sometimes rooting at the tip, 5-10 d 
long, bark on older branches thin and shreddy, young branches thinly pilose or rarely sdaheate: 
Leaves glaucous, oval to lineat=elliptic, acute, 8-25 mm. long, mm. wide, om, grayish ace, 
sparsely short-pilose on both sides, rarely glabrate; petioles 1-3 mm. long; flowers common nly 
pairs in the upper axils and in small terminal bracteate racemes; calyx campaniiate, glaucous, 
the lobes scarious-margined, 1 mm. long; corolla pink, elongate- ci esnaulas e, 6-7 m the 
tube pilose within, the lobes 2-3 mm. long ; stamens included ; style se ig Theet: ie eileen 
o subglobose, about 6-8 mm. in diameter. 
Dry mountain slopes and ridges, Transition and Canadian Zones; southern Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, 
and bboy or #3 Mountains and the Mount Pinos region south to the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mounta: ains, 
southern California, east to “a aren Nevada and Passe wae Arizona. Type locality: San Bernardino 
Mountains, paen ty June-Jul 
6. Symphoricarpos longiflérus A. Gray. Desert Snowberry. Fig. 5042. 
pee apres ae longiflorus A. Gray, Journ. Linn. Soc. 14: 12. 1873. 
Symphoricarpos fragrans Nels. & Kenn. Muhlenbergia 3: 143. 1908. 
Low, intricately branched shrub with divaricately spreading or even declined branches 3-10 
dm. high, getwous Lares the der branches with light gray, shredded bark, young branches 
glabrous or spars rulent, light reddish brown we aap r less glaucous. Leaves Apher 
or oblanceolate S uliptic or oval, 8-1 ong, m. ic ag green and glaucous, gla- 
brous or sparsely puberulent toward the base ; petioles 73 mm. long; flowers fragrant, in the 
axils of the upper leaves or Ba: hei dis posed on young ree a calyx mm. ong; 
corolla salverform, 10-15 mm. long, white to pink, glabrous within and without, - lobes 2-3 m 
long; style S teuantte hairy eda berries ellipsoid, white or pinkish, 8-10 mm. lon 
Rocky canyons and slopes in desert mountain ranges, Upper Sonoran Zone; ibe Cezani2 cca and Nevada, 
and in the White, Panamint, and Cottonwood Mountais, — yet ys a Kingston and Providence Mountains, 
San Bernardino County, California, east to Utah, pane Texas. Type locality: “Pahranagat 
Mountains, in the south-eastern part of Nevada.” ag ohas e 
5. LONICERA L. Sp. Pl. 173. 1753. 
Erect shrubs or woody climbers with opposite, mostly entire leaves and spicate, capitate, 
or geminate flowers subtended by bracts and bractlets, the bractlets distinct, connate, or 
x-tube ovoid to nearly globulose, the limb shallowly 5-toothed. 
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the limb 5-lobed and more or less oblique or 2-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla- 
tube; anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 2+3-celled; ovules many in each cell, pendulous; 
style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit a fleshy berry, 2-3-celled or rarely 1-celled, few- 
seeded. Seeds oval or oblong, with fleshy falicsoeran and a terete embryo. [Named in honor 
of Adam Lonitzer, a sixteenth century German botanist. ] 
