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LoNICERA FLAVA. YELLOW-FLOWERED 



Woodbine. 

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CY*//} ij;/i/ Order. 

 Pen tan dr i a Monogynia. 



Generic Characlcr. 



t Cal 5-dentatus. Cor. tubulofa, 5-fida, irregularis. Bacca 

 mfera, poiyfperma, 2 — 3 — 4-locularis. 



Specific Characlcr. 



LONICERA flava ; (caprifolium) floribus ringentibus ter- 

 minal ibus, foliisovatisfubtusgiauciscartilagineo- 

 marginatis : fummis connato-perfoliatis. 



Although we had not an opportunity of feeing this plant, 

 while in blofiom, ourfelves, yet from a careful examination of 

 a native dried fpecimen, with which we were favoured by 

 ■M r - Fraser, and a thorough dependance upon the accuracy 

 °f our draftfman, we conclude that the Lonicera flava is a 

 fpecies diftinci from all that have been hitherto defcribed. VVe 

 allow that it has fome affinity with dioica (parviflora of 

 -Lamarck and* Persoon) but differs in having much larger 

 flowers, not gibbous at the bafe ; nor are the filaments bearded. 

 Some of the flowers are certainly hermaphrodite, but in the 

 dried fpecimen we obferved many of them to have a defective 

 %le, only half the length of the tube of the corolla. In the 

 plant from which our drawing was taken, many of the flowers 

 " a d but four ftamens. Jn Cavrivolivu Arac7eq/um of Mi- 

 c haux, which wefuppofe to be the fame with dioica, the head 

 °f flowers is not by feveral times fo large as the bra£ie« but in 

 ° u r plant is fully equal to or rather exceeding it. In the dried 

 specimen the head of flowers is nearly feflile, as is ufually, but 



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