in opposite and rather remote pairs, ovato-elliptical, waved, 

 rather acute, the lower ones almost obovate, and on short 

 petioles, the upper sessile, and the uppermost ones connato- 

 perfoliate, downy on both sides, but especially beneath, 

 where they are glaucous, ciliated at the margin. The 

 floral leaves are quite glabrous above. Flowers in ter- 

 minal, capitate whorls ; the extreme ones generally in three 

 heads, of a fine golden-yellow colour, externally, and par- 

 tially within, glanduloso-pubescent. Calyx of five very 

 minute teeth. Corolla with the tube longer than the limb, 

 curved. Upper lip broadly cuneate, five-toothed, lower one 

 linear, the margins recurved. Stamens exserted. Fila- 

 ments hairy in their lower half. Anthers oblong. Style 

 nearly as long as the stamens. Stigma orbicular, de- 

 pressed. 



This beautiful and hardy species of Honeysuckle was 

 introduced to our gardens by Mr. Goldie of Ayr, from 

 North America, in the year 1819, and published by him in 

 the Edinb. Phil. Journal, in April, 1822, under the name 

 of Caprifolium pubescens, by which appellation also it ap- 

 peared shortly after in the Exotic Flora. Neither Mr. 

 Goldie nor myself were then aware that the same plant 

 was known to Mr. Eaton, an American Botanist, and pub- 

 lished by him in the third edition of his useful Manual of 

 Botany, as Lonicera hirsuta, n. sp. That edition, I have 

 indeed not yet had the opportunity of seeing; but judging 

 from the date of the Preface to the fourth edition, (1823,) 

 and from the circumstance of Dr. Torrey's giving the 

 preference to Mr. Eaton's name, it must have the right of 

 priority. 



I do not see any reason for suspecting, with Dr. Torrey, 

 that this is only a variety of Lonicera jlava, Curt. (Capri- 

 folium Fraseri of Pursh,) which has glabrous flowers and 

 leaves, and cartilaginous margins to the latter, and appears 

 to be a much more Southern species. 



Our figure is taken from a fine plant, which blossomed 

 in the Glasgow Bot. Garden, in June, 1831. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Stigma and part of the Style : magnified. 

 4. Lower Leaf, nat. size. 



