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LONICERA* involucrdta 



Involucred Lonicera. 



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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Nat. ord, Caprifoliacex. 



LONICERA Linn. {Xylosteon Moench.) — Calyx superus, 5-den-^ 

 tatus, deciduus. Corolla infundibularis, limbo 5-partito erecto, basi sac- 

 cata. Stamina 5. Ovarium triloculare, loculis omnibus pariter poly- 



spermis. Bacca succosa, bilocularis.- Frutices erecti (Asioe et Americae 



temperatse) floribus roseis albisve^ vix odoratis. 



L. involucrata ; foliis oblongis obtusis in basi acuminatis subtus pilosis,, 

 floribus didymis bracteis duabus magnis ovatis basi imbricantibus in- 

 . volucratis. 



Xylosteum involucratum. Richardson in Franklin's Appendix, p. 733. 

 L. involucrata. Hh. Banks. Spreng. syst, 1. 759. 



Frutex demissus, 2-3'pedalis, ramis brevihus subtetragonis* Folia op- 



h posita, oblonga, obtusay in basi acuminata^ inde quasi obovata^ suprH glabra^ 



subtiis subptlosa. Flores didymiy sessiles intra involucrum d bracteis duabus 



conjlatum, longe pedunculatum ; pedunculis bracteatis. Bracteae involucri, 



oppositce, distinctce, basibus imbricatis, ovatce, subtiis subpiloscc ^ Jiorum longi- 



^ tudine ; bracteolse duce^ exterioribus alterncBy ovariis arct^ applicitcey glandu- 



loscB, subrotundce, emarginatcBy quceque verosimiliter ex duabus connatis. Flores 

 sessileSf didymi^ in sinu bractearum. Calyx margo deciduus. Corolla 

 infundibular is y extils pilosa, basi saccata^ limbo 5-partito, subcrecto, inaquali^ 

 lacinid cui saccus pertinety anteriore majore. Stamina 5, (squalia^ medio 

 " . tubi insertay lacimis limbi alterna ; fi\zxner\i?i filiformia ; antherae lineares, 



i innatce, biloculareSy longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium ovatum, liberum 



a proximo, bi-v. d-loculare, ovulis appensis, cuique loculo quatuor v. quinque. 

 Stylns filif or mis, declinatus ; stigma capitatum, obscuri bilobum, v. trilo' 

 bum. Bacca nigra, l-2-5per/?ia, succosa, fcetens. 



This curious "hardy shrub was sent, in 1824, to the 

 Horticultural Society by William Williams, Esq., late 



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* AdamiLonicer, a Frankfort Botanist, was born in 1528, and died in 

 1586. He published an ancient herbal, with corrections from the hand of 

 Dorsten, and additions of his own> under the name of " Krauterbuch,'' 

 which appeared in folio at Frankfort in 1573: a second edition was pub- 

 lished in 1737, by Balthazar John Ehrhart. 



