Cornus. | XXXVIII, CORNACED, | 207 
terminal cymes of 134 to 2 inches in diameter, without bracts; the calyx 
and peduncles covered with a mealy down. Petals of a dull white, lan- 
ceolate, nearly 3 lines long. Drupes globular, almost black and very 
bitter. 
In hedges and thickets, in temperate Europe and Russian Asia, extend-| 
ing northwards into southern Scandinavia. Abundant in southern Eng. 
land, becoming scarce in the north, and does not appear to be wild 
anywhere in Scotland, and only in a very few localities in Ireland. 7, 
early summer, 
XXXIX. CAPRIFOLIACEH, THE HONEYSUCKLE 
FAMILY. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with opposite leaves, and no stipules. 
-Flowers usually in terminal heads, corymbs, or panicles, more 
rarely axillary. Calyx combined with the ovary, with an entire 
or toothed border, sometimes scarcely prominent. Corolla 
monopetalous, 5- or rarely 4-lobed, regular or somewhat irre- 
cular, with the lobes overlapping each other in the bud. 
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 
Rubiace family chiefly in the want of real stipules; from Valerianee and 
_ Dipsacee in the compound ovary. 
Stigmas several. Corolla spreading, with a very short tube. 
Low herb. Leaves once, twice, or thrice ternate . : ~ 6 AnpoxA. 
Tall herb or tree. Leaves pinnate’! . 5 3 , : . 2 SamMBucvs, 
Shrubs. ‘Leaves entire or palmately lobed. : ; . 3 VIBURNUM. 
Style single. Corolla narrowed into a tube at the pase. 
Shrubs or climbers. Stamens 5. . ; . 5 : : . 4, LONICERA. 
Trailing perennial. Stamens4 . : : : . 5. LINNZmA., 
The Snowberry (Symphoricarpos), aeucearocsd 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 Caprifoliacee, but in other respects much 
