HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



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2. Sambuuus. — Trees or shrubby herbs ; leaves pinnate ; flowers 

 small, in umbellate cymes, 5-merous ; corolla rotate ; berry with 

 3 — 5 i-seeded chambers. 



3. Viburnum. — Shrubs ; leaves simple ; flowers in cymes, 

 5-merous; corolla rotate or bell-shaped; berry 1 -seeded. 



4. LlNNilA. 



Herb ; leaves simple ; 

 flowers in pairs ; 

 corolla bell-shaped ; 

 stamens didynamous; 

 fruit dry, 1 -seeded. 



5. Lonicera. — 

 Shrubs; leaves sim- 

 ple; flowers in cy- 

 mose heads ; corolla 

 mono symmetric ; 

 berry of 2 or 3 

 several-seeded cham- 

 bers. 



1. Adoxa (Mos- 

 chatel). — A small 

 glabrous, succulent 

 herb ; rhizome creep- 

 ing, scaly ; leaves 2, 

 radical, ternate; 

 flowers in a long- 

 stalked terminal 

 head of 5, small, 

 green, the 4 lateral 

 ones 5-merous, the 

 terminal one 4-mer- 

 ous; corolla rotate; 

 stamens 4 or 5, bifur- 

 cating at the base; 

 anthers dimidiate ; 

 berry with 1 -seeded 

 parchment-like chambers. (Name from the Greek signifying 

 inglorious, from its humble growth.) 



1. A. Moschatellina (Common or Tuberous Moschatel). — The 

 only species, an interesting little herbaceous plant, 4 — 6 in. high ; 

 stem 4-angled; radical leaves long-stalked, ternate; leaflets tri- 

 angular, lobed ; cauline leaves or bracts 2, smaller, with sheathing 

 petioles ; flowers arranged as if on 5 sides of a cube. — Hedgerows ; 



ADOXA MOSCHATELLINA (Common Mosckatet). 



