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CAPRIFOLIACEAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 291 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAPRIFOLIACEAE  , a natural

order of
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plants belonging to the sympetalous or higher division of
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Dicotyledons, that namely which is characterized by having the petals of the flower
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united . The plants are mainly shrubs and trees;
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British representatives are Sambucus (elder),
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Viburnum (guelder-rose and wayfaring tree), Lonicera (honeysuckle) (see fig.); Adoxa (moschatel), a small herb with a creeping stem and small yellowish-green flowers, is occasionally found on
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damp hedge-banks; Linnaea, a slender creeping
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evergreen with a thread-like stem and
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pink bell-shaped flower, a
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northern plant, occurs in
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fir-forests and plantations in the north of England and Scotland . The leaves are opposite,
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simple as in honeysuckle, or compound as in elder; they have usually no stipules . The flowers are
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regular as in Viburnum 2 ~-(-1 Flowering shoot of Lonicera Caprifolium, slightly reduced . 1, Fruit slightly reduced; 2,
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horizontal plan of arrangement of flower . and Sambucus, more rarely two-lipped as in Lonicera; the sepals and petals are usually five in number and placed above the ovary, the five stamens are attached to the corolla-tube, there are three to five carpels, and the fruit is a berry as in honeysuckle or snowberry (Symphoricarpus), or a stone fruit, with several, usually three, stones, as in Sambucus . In Sambucus and Viburnum the small white flowers are massed in heads; honey is secreted at the
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base of the styles and, the tube of the flower being very short, is exposed to the visits of flies and
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insects with short probosces . The flowers of Lonicera, which have a long tube, open in the evening, when they are sweet-scented and are visited by hawk-moths . The order contains about 250
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species, chiefly natives of the north temperate zone and the mountains of the tropics . Several genera afford ornamental plants; such are Lonicera, erect shrubs or twiners with long-tubed white, yellow or red flowers; Symphoricarpus, a North
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American
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shrub, with small whitish pendulous flowers and white berries; Diervilla (also known as Weigelia), and Viburnum, including V . Opulus, guelder rose, in the cultivated forms of which the corolla has become enlarged at the expense of the essential
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organs and the flowers are neuter .

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