228 CAPRIFOLIACELE 



creeping ; stems annual, erect, about 6 in. high, slender ; leaves 

 opposite, decussate, ovate ; flowers in a terminal umbel, minute, 

 dark purple ; bracts 4, large, ovate, yellow, tipped with purple, 

 forming an involucre; fruit, a red berry. — Alpine moors in 

 Scotland, and the north of England ; rare. The fruit is said by 

 the Highlanders to create appetite, and hence is called Lus-a- 

 chraois, plant of gluttony.— Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



2. C. sanguinea (Wild Cornel, Dogwood). — Very different in 

 habit from the preceding; a bushy shrub, 5 — 6 feet high, with 

 opposite, ovate, acute leaves, and terminal, many-flowered, 

 corymbose cymes of cream-white flowers; Berries small, black- 

 purple. — Hedges and thickets, especially on a chalk or lime- 

 stone soil; common. The wood, with that of the Spindle-tree 

 (Eudnymus europceus) and Guelder Rose {Viburnum), which has 

 a similar texture, and is therefore confused under the same name 

 Dogwood, was used formerly for skewers or "dagges." The 

 leaves assume blood-red and dark purple tints early in autumn. — 

 Fl. June. Perennial. 



Sub-Class II. GAMOPETAL^ 



Having both calyx and corolla, and the petals of the latter 

 united. 



Series I. EPfGYfrLE.— Ord. XXXVIL— XLIII 



Ovary inferior 



§ Stamens epipetalous 



Ord. XXXVIL Caprifoliace^e. — The Honeysuckle 

 Family 



A small but very varied Order, comprising trees, shrubs, and 

 herbaceous plants, principally confined to the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere. The leaves are usually exstipulate and opposite; the 

 flowers conspicuous and sometimes monosymmetric ; sepals 3—5, 

 superior; petals 3 — 5, united; stamens 4 — 10, usually equal in 

 number to the petals and alternate with them ; ovary 3 — 5- 

 chambered ; fruit in most cases a berry. Such favourite plants 

 as the fragrant Honeysuckle, the Guelder Rose, the Elder, and 

 the elegant little plant upon which Linnaeus fixed to commemorate 

 his name, make the Order an interesting one. 



1. Adoxa. — Herbs ; leaves ternate ; flowers small, green, 5 in a 

 head; corolla rotate; stamens forked; berry with 4 or 5 1 -seeded 

 chambers. 



