HOXETSUCKLE FAMILY. 



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all separate ; the Trumpet Honeysuckle, (L. semper'virens,) a native 

 scentless species with a long tubular, red or yellow corolla with the 

 margin divided into 5 short, nearly equal lobes. 



2. STMPHOEICAR'PUS, Bill. Snowberey. 



[Greek, Symphoreo, to bear together, and Karpos, fruit ; ttie berries growing in dense 



clusters.] 



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

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

 Berry 2-s3eded. Low shrubs with short petioled leaves. Flowers in 

 short close clusters. The upper flowers often developing after the lower 

 ones of the cluster have matured their fruit. 



1. S. racemo'sus, Mx. Spikes terminal, loose, interrupted, often 

 somewhat leafy ; corolla bearded within ; berries white. 

 Snow-Berry. 



Shrill) 2-4 feet high, with numerous slender branches clothed with loose bark. Leaves 



1- 2 inches long, more or less broadly ovate, often undulate on the margin, those of the 

 young shoots sometimes obtusely toothed ; under surface softly pubescent, upper smooth- 

 ish. Flowers about >^ of an inch long, rose color. Berries brilliant white. 



Rocky banks : North and West. June -September. 



Ohs. This is often seen in cultivation, its bright white berries, which 

 remain on the bush until winter, making it a conspicuous object among 

 the shrubbery. * 



3. TRIOS 'TEUM, L. Fever- wort. 



[Greek, Treis^ three, and Osteon, a bone ; from its three bony seeds or nuts. 



Calyx'tuhe ovoid ; segments lance-linear, foliaceous, persistent. Corolla 

 gibbous at base, nearly equally 5-lobed. Berry drupaceous, rather dry, 

 3-ceUed, with 3 bony 1-seeded nuts. Perennial hairy hei os ; leaves sub- 

 connate, tapering at base ; flowers axillary, sessile, bracteate. 



1. T. perfolia'tum, L. Softly hairy ; leaves spatulate-ovate, ab- 

 ruptly narrowed at base ; axils 1 - 3-flowered ; flowers dark, brownish- 

 purple. 



Perfoliate Triosteum. Fever-wort. Horse Gentian, &c. 



stem 2-4 feet high, simple, somewhat viscid while young. Leaves 4-6 inches long, and 



2- 4 inches wide, often narrowed almost to a petiole at base, but always connate, the 

 margin ciliate pubescent. Corolla about half an inch long, viscid-pubescent, ^errjr oval^ 

 orange color when mature. 



Rocky woods. June. 



Obs. The root of this plant was formerly somewhat noted as an Indian 

 medicine ; but is now neglected. John Bartram (in the Appendix to 

 Short's Medicina Britannica) says it is " called in our Northern Colo- 

 nies Dr. Tinker's Weed ; in Pennsylvania, Gentian ; and to the south- 

 ward, Fever Root." 



