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topped cyme; berry blue with a bloom.—Stream banks in the valleys or 
in open woods in the hills. The berries are used in rural cookery. 
2. S. racemosa L. Red Elderberry. Thick spreading bush 3 to 9 
dm. high; leaflets mostly obovate or oblong, glabrous or nearly so, entire 
at apex; berries scarlet.—Mountains. Var. callicarpa Jepson. Low 
shrub or small tree, 2.4 to 6 m. high: leaflets sharply serrate to apex.— 
Seacoast, San Mateo Co. n. 
2. SYMPHORICARPOS L. Wax-berry 
Low branching bushes with small short-petioled simple leaves and. white 
or pinkish flowers in short close clusters. Calyx with a globular tube and 
4- or 5-toothed limb. Corolla regular, bell-shaped or tubular, 4- or 5- 
lobed. Stamens included. Ovary 4-celled. Fruit a white berry. (Greek 
sumphoreo, to bear together, and karpos, fruit, the berries in close 
clusters.) 
1. S. racemosus Michx. Snow Berry. About 9 to 15 dm. high; leaves 
roundish to oblong, entire or lobed; corolla pinkish, 4 mm. long, densely 
hairy within ; berry 8 to 14 mm. in diameter, white with snowy pulp; seeds 
2.—Common in the hill country. 
3. LONICERA L. Honeysuckle 
Erect or twining shrubs. Leaves simple, entire. Calyx-tube ovoid or 
globose, the border 5-toothed or truncate. Corolla strongly 2-lipped or 
nearly regular, its tube elongated and more or less swollen or gibbous at 
base. Qvary 2 or 3-celled. (Adam Lonitzer, a German herbalist of the 
16th century.) 
Erect deciduous shrubs ; flowers in axillary pairs ; corolla nearly regular ; berries 
black.1. L. involucrata. 
Trailing or twining evergreen shrubs; flowers sessile, in whorls; flowers in ter¬ 
minal spikes; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip 4-lobed or toothed, the lower 
narrow, entire ; berries red or sometimes yellow. 
Leaves next the inflorescence united into a connate-perfoliate disk. 
Corolla pink, hispidulous-glandular without; leaves with stipule-like 
appendages.2. L. hispidula. 
Corolla yellow, glabrous without; leaves without stipule-like appendages.. 
3. L. interrupta. 
Leaves all distinct; corolla yellow..4. L. subspicata. 
1. L. involucrata (Richards) Banks. Black Twin-berry. About 1 
to 2 m. high; leaves oblong-ovate or -lanceolate; peduncles axillary, bear¬ 
ing at summit 2 flowers (side by side) which are subtended by conspicu¬ 
ous bracts; corolla yellow or crimson-tinged, 1.8 cm. long.—Along canon 
streams. 
2. L. hispidula Dough var. californica (Greene) Jepson. California 
Honeysuckle. Climbing on bushes or trees by twining of the stem; leaves 
broadly oblong or ovate, most of the opposite pairs joined at base by 
stipule-like appendages, the uppermost beneath the inflorescence com¬ 
pletely united by their bases; flowers in whorls, the whorls in terminal 
spikes; corolla pink, 12 to 16 mm. long.—Along streams in canons and 
valleys. 
3. L. interrupta Benth. Chaparral Honeysuckle. Stems twining or 
reclining; corolla 8 to 10 mm. long.—High chaparral-covered ridges. 
4. L. subspicata H. & A. Moronel. Stems climbing or reclining, 1 
