378 THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



XXXVI. THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 

 CAPRIFOLIACE^E. 



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 mono- 

 petalous, 5- or rarely 4-lobed, regular or somewhat irregular, 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 succulent, with 1 to 5 cells. Seeds solitary or few 

 in each cell, with a fleshy albumen. 



The Honeysuckle family is not a very natural one, but tolerably well 

 defined, differing from the exotic opposite-leaved genera of the Madder 

 family chiefly in the want of real stipules ; from the Valerian and 

 Teasel families in the compound ovary. 



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



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



Tall herb, or tree. Leaves pinnate 2. Eldee. 



Shrubs. Leaves entire or palmately lobed 3. Viburnum. 



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



Shrubs or climbers. Stamens 5 4. Honeysuckle. 



Trailing perennial. Stamens 4 5. Llnkea. 



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

 gardens, belong also to this family. 



I. MOSCATEL. ADOXA. 



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 the Aralia family, among which it 

 has until recently been classed. 



