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2. SYMPHORICARPUS, Dill. Snowberry. 



Calyx-teeth short, persistent on the fruit. Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4 - 

 5-lobed, with as many short stamens inserted into its throat. Ovary 4-celled, 

 only 2 of the cells with a fertile ovule ; the berry therefore 4 celled but only 2- 

 seeded. Seeds bony. — Low and branching upright shrubs, with oval short- 

 petioled leaves, which are downy underneath and entire, or wavy-toothed or 

 lobed on the young shoots. Flowers white tinged with rose-color, in close 

 short spikes or clusters. (Name composed of cri;/j.(^)opea), to bear together, and 

 xapiros, fruit ; from the clustered berries.) 



1. S. OCCidentalis, R. Brown. (Wolfberry.) Flowers in dense ter- 

 minal and axillary spikes ; corolla much bearded within ; the stamens and style 

 ■protruded; berries white. — Northern Michigan, Illinois, and westward. — Flow- 

 ers lai'ger and more funnel-form, and stamens longer, than in the next. 



2. S. racemdsilS, Michx. (Snowberry.) Flowers in a loose and some- 

 what leafy interrupted spike at the end of the branches ; corolla bearded inside ; 

 berries large, bright white. — Rocky banks, W. Vermont to Pennsylvania and 

 Wisconsin : common in cultivation. June- Sept. — Berries ripe in autumn. 



Var. pauciflbrus, Robbins. Low, diffusely branched and spreading ; 

 leaves smaller (about I' long), the spike reduced to one or two flowers in the 

 axils of the uppermost. — Rocky woods of L. Superior, Dr. Robbins, and north- 

 westward. Alleghanies of Pennsylvania, J. R. Lowrie, Mr. Backing. 



3. S. vulgaris, Michx. (Indian Currant. Coral-berry.) Flower? 

 in small close clusters in the axils of nearly all the leaves ; corolla sparingly 

 bearded ; berries small, dark red. — Rocky banks, W. New York and Penn. to 

 Illinois and southward : also cultivated. July. 



3. LONICERA, L. Honeysuckle. Woodbine. 



Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla tubular or funnel-form, often gibbous at the 

 base, irregularly or almost regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-3-celled. 

 Berry several-seeded. — Leaves entire. Flowers often showy and fragrant. 

 (Named in honor of Adam Lonitzer, latinized Lonicerus, a German herbalist of 

 the 16th century.) 



§ 1. CAPRIFOLIUM, Juss. Twining shrubs, with the flowers in sessile whorled 

 clusters from the axils of the {often connate) upper leaves and forming interrupted 

 terminal spikes: calyx-teeth persistent on the {red or orange) berry. 



* Corolla trumpet-shaped, almost regularly and equally 5-lobed. 



1. L. sempervirens, Ait. (Trumpet Honeysuckle.) Flowers in 

 somewhat distant whorls ; leaves oblong, smooth ; the lower petioled, the up- 

 permost pairs united round the stem. — Copses, New York (near the city) to 

 Virginia, and southward : common also in cultivation. May - Oct. — Leaves 

 deciduous at the North. Corolla scentless, nearly 2' long, deep red outside, 

 yellowish within or rarely throughout. 



* * Corolla ringent : the lower hp narrow, the upper broad and \-lobed. 



2. L. grata, Ait. (American Woodbine.) L'aves smooth, glaucous be- 

 neath, obovate, the 2 or 3 upper pairs united ; flowers whorled in the axils of 



