206 THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 
Stamens inserted in the tube of the corolla, and alternating 
with its lobes, either of the same number or one less, or 
rarely double the number. Ovary inferior, with 3 to 5 cells, 
and as many stigmas, either sessile or borne on short styles, 
or united on the summit of a single style. Fruit usually suc- . 
culent, with 1 to 5 cells. Seeds solitary or few in each cell, 
with a fleshy albumen. 
The Caprifoliacee do not form a very natural family, but are 
tolerably well defined, differing from the exotic opposite-leaved genera 
of the Rubiacee family chiefly in the want of real stipules; from 
Valerianeee and Dipsacee in the compound ovary. 
Stigmas several. Corolla spreading, with a very short tube. 
Low herb, Leaves once, twice, or thrice ternate . : ‘ « 1. ADOsA, 
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Tall herb or tree. Leaves pinnate q P é : . 2, SAMBUCUS. 
Shrubs. Leaves entire or palmately lobed | } : . 3. VIBURNUM. 
Style single. Corolla narrowed into a tube at the ‘pase. 
Shrubs or climbers, Stamens5 . : ‘ : : aL opis . 4. LONICERA. 
Trailing perennial. Stamens4 . 5. LINNAA, 
The Snowberry (Symphoricar Bosh, Dae saat Weig gela, of our 
gardens belong also to this family. 
J. ADOXA. MOSCATEL. 
Leaves ternately divided. Calyx with 2 or 3 spreading teeth or lobes. 
Corolla with a very short tube, and 4 or 5 spreading divisions. Stamens 
8or 10, in pair s, alternating with the divisions of the corolla, and inserted 
ona little ring at its base. Styles 3 to 5, very short, united at the base. 
Ovary 38- to 5-celled, with one ovule in each cell. Fruit a berry. 
A genus consisting of a single species, with very different foliage and 
stamens from those of other Caprifoliacee, but in other respects much 
more nearly allied to them than to Araliacew, among which it has until 
recently been classed. 
1. A. Moschatellina, Linn. (fig. 461). Moscatel_—A low, glabrous 
herb, of a light green colour in all its parts; the rootstock covered with 
a few thick scales, the remains of old leafstalks, and emitting creeping, 
half-underground runners. Radical leaves stalked, once, twice, or even 
three times ternate, with broad, deeply 3-lobed segments. Flower- 
stems, radical, from 4 to 6 inches high, with a single pair of leaves on 
short stalks, and but once ternate. Flowers pale green, in a little glo- 
bular head at the top of the stems, containing usually 5; the terminal 
one with 2 divisions to the calyx, and 4 to the corolla, and 8 stamens ; 
whilst the 4 latefal flowers have three divisions to the calyx, and 5 to 
the corolla, with 10 stamens ; but these numbers are not quite constant. 
Berry green and fleshy, most frequently containing but a single seed. 
On moist, shady banks, and woods, in northern and central Europe, 
Russian Asia, and a part of North America, extending into the Arctic 
regions. In southern Europe, chiefly confined to mountains. Common 
in Great Britain, rarer in Ireland. Fl. spring. 
IJ. SAMBUCUS. ELDER. 
Trees, shrubs, or tall herbs, with opposite pinnate leaves, and large 
flat cymes or corymbs of numerous, rather small, white flowers. Calyx — 
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