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CAPRIFOLIAC 'E;E. 



1. S. racemosus Michx. Ssrow Berky. Erect or spreading-, 

 with slender branches, commonly 3 to 4 ft. high; leaves round-oval 

 to ovate or oblong, entire or on the same branchlet sinuately few- 

 toothed or saliently lobed, glabrous or the lower surface pubescent, 

 commonly 1 (less commonly as much as 2) in. long, short-petioled: 

 calyx-lobes ciliate; corolla pinkish, 2 lines long, 5-lobed above the 

 middle, densely villous-hirsute within; berry globose, 4 to 6 lines in 

 diameter; pulp snowy, nearly tasteless; seeds 2, oblong, flat on one 

 side, low-convex on the other, nearly or quite 2 lines long. 



Yery common throughout California in the hill country. 



2. S. mollis Nutt. Low diffuse shrub about 1 ft. high, of some- 

 what more delicate habit than the preceding and with thinner leaves; 

 leaves oval or elliptic, mostly J in. long, seldom other than entire, 

 pubescent on both -surfaces or more so on the lower surface; corolla 

 rose-red. barely pubescent within, otherwise like the last. 



Coast Eanges. not common (Mt. Diablo, Monterey. San Luis 

 Obispo Co.); Sierra Nevada. Apr. -May. 



S. OREOPHiLUS Gray. Corolla tubular-funnelform, 5 or 6 lines 

 long. — High Sierras. 



3. LONICERA L. Honeysuckle. 

 Erect or twining shrubs with simple entire leaves, one or two pairs 

 beneath the inflorescence often connate-perfoliate. Flowers spicate at 

 the ends of the branches or in small axillary clusters. Calyx-tube 

 ovoid or almost globose, the limb 5-toothed or truncate, deciduous or 

 persistent, mostly small, sometimes none. Corolla with an elongated 

 tube more or less gibbous at base; limb bilabiate with the upper lip 

 4-lobed or -toothed, or regular and the 5 lobes scarcely unequal. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla. Ovary 2 or 8-celled. 

 becoming a few- to several-seeded berry. (Named for Adam Lonitzer, 

 a German herbalist of the 16th century.) 



Erect shrub; flowers in pairs on an axillary peduncle; corolla nearly 



regular 1. L. involucrata. 



Twining shrub; flower-whorls in terminal spikes. 

 Flowers pink; leaves, except the lowest, with stipule-like appendages; 

 corolla hispidulous-glandular without: var. Californica of 



2. L. hupidula. 



Flowers yellow; leaves mostly without stipule-like appendages; corolla 

 glabrous without 3. L. interrupta. 



1. L. involucrata (Eichards) Banks. Black Twin-BERRY. 

 Erect shrub; stems with shreddy bark, 4 to 7 ft. high, or much 

 longer and reclining on other shrubs; leaves opposite (or, on the 

 lower portion of the season's shoot, termite), oblong, varying to ovate 

 or lanceolate, usually acute or acuminate. U to 8£ in. long, on very 

 short petioles; flowers sessile, borne in pairs, side by side on axillary 

 peduncles and subtended by conspicuous bracts; peduncles solitary in 

 the axils, 2 or 3 from each node, about 7 lines long, in fruit twice as 

 long; bracts in 2 sets, 2 outer and 4 inner or these commonly united 

 in pairs; outer bracts round-ovate, cordate at base, £ in. long; inner j{ 

 in. broad, broader than long; corolla saccate-gibbous on the upper 



