* * Ovary with a single cell and a solitary ovule, or rarely with 3 cells, two
of which are empty* Seeds with Little, or no albumen. Fruit indehiscent•
Stamens distinct. Seed suspended.*
Flowers not in involucrate heads. Albumen none. 74. V alerianaceje.
Heada dense, involucrate. Seeds albuminous. 75. DipsacejE.
Stamens syngenesious. Heads involucrate. 76. Composite.
* * * Ovary with one or several cells, and numerous ovules. Stamens
inserted with the corolla. Fruit capsular. Seeds mostly albuminous.
Corolla.irregular. Stamens united. 77, L obeliaoee.
Corolla regular. Stamens mostly distinct. 78. Campanulacee.
Corolla regular, 5-parted, Anthers sessile. Subord. P ongatiee.
O rd e r LXXII. CAPRIFOLIACEÆ. Juss.; DC.
Tube of the calyx adherent to the ovary ; the limb 5- (rarely 4-)
cleft or toothed. Corolla tubular, or sometimes rotate ; the lobes imbricate
in aestivation. Stamens equal in number and alternate with
the lobes of the corolla (or rarely one of them deficient), and inserted
into the tube : anthers introrse, versatile. Ovary 3- (rarely 4-5-)
celled, with 1-several pendulous ovules in each cell : style filiform,
with a somewhat capitate stigma ; or wanting, and the oblong stigmas
3—5. Fruit baccate, fleshy, or sometimes dry (rarely capsular), often
1-celled by abortion. Seeds anatropous. Embryo in the avis of
fleshy albumen.—Shrubs, or rarely herbaceous plants, with opposite
exstipulate leaves. Inflorescence various.
T ribe I . LONICEREÆ. R . Br.
Corolla tubular ; the limb sometimes irregular. Style filiform.
Raphe on the outer side of the ovule !
Subtribe 1. Ca pr ifo l iæ .—Fruit baceate, or sometimes nearly dry. Testa
of the seed crustaceous or coriaceous.
1. LINNÆA. Gronov. in Linn. gen. no. 774 ; DC. prodr. 4. p. 340.
Calyx-tube ovate ; the segments of the 5-parted limb lanceolate-subulate,
deciduous. Corolla turbinale-eampanulate, somewhat equally 5-lobed. Stamens
4, didynamous, included, inserted towards the base of the corolla.
Ovary 3-celled ; two of the cells with several abortive ovules ; the third with
a single fertile ovule suspended from the summit. Style slightly exserted :
stigma capitate. Fruit ovoid-globose, dry and indehiscent, 3-celled (the two
sterile cells smaller), 1-seeded.—A creeping or trailing evergreen herb (indigenous
to the northern parts of the old and new world), somewhat hairy ;
with broadly oval sparingly crenate-toothed leaves, abruptly narrowed into a
petiole. Peduncles filiform, terminating the ascending branches, bearing
two pedicellate (minutely bibracteolate) nodding flowers. Corolla purplish-
rose-color or nearly white.
L. borealis (Gronov.)—Linn.! Jl. Lapp. p. 214, 1.12, ƒ. 4, Jl. Suec. ed. 2.
p . 219 (ic), Sf spec. 2. p. 631; FI. Dan. t. 3 ; Schkuhr, handb. 1. 176 ; Lam.
ill. t. 536 ; Engl. bot. t. 1297; Michx. ! jl. 1. p. 87 ; Wahl. Jl. Lapp. p. 170,
t. 9, ƒ. 3 ; Pursh! jl. 2. p. 413; Torr! jl. 1. p. 175; Bigel. ! jl. Bost. ed. 2.
p. 241 ; Richards, appx. Frankl. journ. ed. 2. p. 25; DC. ! 1. c.; Hoolc. !
{jl. Lcmd. n. ser. t. 199) Jl. Bor.-AM. 1. p. 285.
Moist mossy woods, usually under the shade of evergreens, from the Arctic
Circle to the New England States! New York! New Jersey! (in a cedar
swamp near New Durham, Mr. L . Menard,) and the mountains of Pennsylvania
; and from Newfoundland! and Labrador! to the Rocky Mountains
! Oregon! Unalaschka and Kotzebue’s Sound! June-July.—Stems
filiform, sending up numerous short branches. Leaves about half an inch
long, sparsely hispid. Flowers fragrant; the slender pedicels, and particularly
the calyx-tube and the appressed bracts, clothed with glandular hairs.
Corolla hairy inside.—This unpretending and beautiful plant, so interesting
from its association with the name of Linneeus, is as widely dispersed throughout
the northern portion of the new, as of the old world.
2. SYMPHORICARPUS. Dill. EUh. p. 371. t. 278; DC.prodr. 4.p.338.
Symphoria, Pers.
Calyx-tube globose.; the limb 4-5-toothed, persistent. Corolla infundibu-
liform or campantilate, somewhat regularly 4-5-lobed. Stamens 4-5, inserted
into the throat of the corolla. Ovary 4-celled ; two of the cells with
several abortive ovules; the two others (opposite) each with a single fertile
ovule pendulous from the summit. Stigma capitate. Fruit a globose or ovoid
berry, 4-celled; two opposite cells 1-seeded, the others empty. Seeds bony.
—Small branching shrubs (natives of North America and Mexico); with
oval entire leaves on short petioles. Flowers small, bibracteolate, in short
axillary clusters or terminal spikes. Corolla rose-color or white. Berries
red or white.
1. S. racemosus (Michx.): spikes terminal, loose, interrupted, often somewhat
leafy; corolla campanulate", densely bearded inside; style (glabrous)
and stamens included— Michx.! jl. l .p . 1.07; DC.! 1. c.; Hook. ! jl. Bor.-
Am. l .p . 285. Symphoria racemosa, Pers. syn. l .p . 214 ; Pursh.! jl. 1.
p. 169 ; Bot. mag. t. 2211; Lodd. bot. cab. t. 230 ; Bart. Jl. Amer. Sept. 1'.
191 Ton-. / Jl. 1. p. 246. S. elongata & heterophylla, Presl, in herb.
Henke? ex DC. > :i-
Rocky banks of rivers (mostly on limestone), Upper Canada! Western
part of New York ! and Western States ! to Oregon ! and the North-West
Co„ast! California, fide Hook. <$• A m . bot. Beechey. Common also in cultivation.
July-Aug.—A nearly glabrous shrub, 2-3 feet high, often surcu-
lose. Leaves oval or oblong, 1-2 inches long, sometimes a little pubescent;
the margin often undulate. Spikes usually pedunculate; the flowers opposite.
Corolla about 3 lines long, rose-color. Berries globose and roundish-
obovate, very white, opaque when ripe, often half an inch in diameter.—
know-berry.