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 Caprifoliacece do not form a very natural family, but are 

 tolerably well defined, differing from the exotic opposite-leaved genera 

 of the Rubiacece family chiefly in the want of real stipules; from 

 Valerianece and Dipsacece in the compound ovary. 

 Stigmas several. Corolla spreading, with a very short tube. 



Low herb. Leaves once, twice, or thrice ternate . . . . 1. Adoxa. 



Tall herb or tree. Leaves pinnate 2. Sambucus. 



Shrubs. Leaves entire or palmately lobed ..... 3. Viburnum. 



Style single. Corolla narrowed into a tube at the base. 



Shrubs or climbers. Stamens 5 4. Lonicera. 



Trailing perennial. Stamens 4 . . . .... 5. Linn^ea. 



The Snowberry (Symphoricarpos), Leycesteria, and Weigela, of our 

 gardens belong also to this family. 



I. 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 

 8 or 10, in pairs, alternating with the divisions of the corolla, and inserted 

 on a little ring at its base. Styles 3 to 5, very short, united at the base. 

 Ovary 3- 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 Caprifoliacece, but in other respects much 

 more nearly allied to them than to Araliacece, 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. Eadical 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 lateral 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. 



II. SAMBUCUS. ELDER. 



Trees, shrubs, or tall herbs, with opposite pinnate leaves, and large 

 flat cymes or corymbs of numerous, rather small, white flowers. Calyx 



