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CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



Corolla-tube 5"-?" long; filaments nearly glabrous. 5. L. Sullivantii. 



Corolla bright yellow or orange, its slender tube not gibbous. 6. L. flava. 



Corolla tubular, the short limb nearly equally s-lobed. 7. L. sempervirens. 



** Climbing vine; flowers in pairs on short axillary peduncles. 



8. L. japonica. 



*** Shrubs; flowers in pairs on axillary bracted peduncles. 

 Bracts of the peduncle subulate, linear, minute, or none. 

 Leaves rarely cordate, more or less pubescent, or ciliate. 



Leaves pale, or glaucous, thick, strongly reticulate-veined. 



Peduncles shorter than the flowers ; fruit blue ; leaves ciliate. 9. L. coerulea. 



Peduncles equalling the flowers; fruit red; leaves not ciliate. 10. L. oblongifolia. 



Leaves bright green, thin, ciliate, not strongly reticulate; fruit red. n. L. canadensis. 



Leaves pale, densely pubescent beneath, even when old. 12. L. Xylosteum. 



Leaves cordate, glabrous. 13. L. tatarica. 



Bracts of the peduncle broad, foliaceous. 14. L. involucrata. 



i. Lonicera Caprifolium L. Italian 



or Perfoliate Honeysuckle. 



Fig- 3979- 



L. Caprifolium L. Sp. PI. 173. 1753. 

 L. grata Ait. Hort. Kew. i : 231. 1789. 

 Caprifolium gratum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 

 161. 1814. 



Climbing high, glabrous and somewhat 

 glaucous. Upper one to three pairs of 

 leaves connate-perfoliate, glaucous be- 

 neath, the others sessile or short-peti- 

 oled, oval or obovate, all rounded at 

 the base, entire; flowers in terminal 

 capitate sessile clusters ; corolla gla- 

 brous within, i'-ii' long, purple with- 

 out, the limb white within, strongly 

 2-lipped ; upper lip 4-lobed, the lower 

 one narrow, reflexed ; tube slightly 

 curved, not gibbous ; stamens and style 

 much exserted ; berries red. 



Thickets, New York, New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania to Michigan, Missouri, and 

 in the Southern States. Escaped from 

 cultivation and naturalized. Native of 

 Europe. Called also american or fragrant 

 woodbine. May-June. 



2. Lonicera hirsuta Eaton. Hairy 

 Honeysuckle. Fig. 3980. 



L. hirsuta Eaton, Man. Ed. 2, 307. 1818. 



Twining, the branches hirsute and glandu- 

 lar-pubescent. Upper one or two pairs of 

 leaves connate-perfoliate, the others oval or 

 ovate, short-petioled or sessile, softly pu- 

 bescent beneath, dark green and appressed- 

 pubescent above, ciliate, obtuse or obtusish 

 at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the 

 base, 2'-3^' long; flowers verticillate in 

 short terminal interrupted spikes ; corolla 

 pubescent within, I'-iY long, viscid-pubes- 

 cent without, orange-yellow, turning red- 

 dish, the tube slender, somewhat gibbous at 

 the base, the limb strongly 2-lipped, about 

 as long as the tube or shorter ; filaments 

 hirsute below. 



In woodlands, Vermont and Ontario to 

 Manitoba, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. 

 Rough woodbine. June-July. 



