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VOL. III. 



6. Lonicera flava Sims. Yellow Honeysuckle. 

 Fig. 3984. 



Lonicera flava Sims, Bot. Mag. pi. 1318 1810. 



Twining to a height of several feet, or trailing, 

 glabrous. Leaves broadly oval, or elliptic, entire, 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, 

 short-petioled, or the upper sessile, green above, 

 glaucous beneath, the pairs subtending flowers 

 connate-perfoliate; flowers bright orange-yellow, 

 fragrant, in a terminal interrupted spike; corolla 

 i'-ii' long, the slender tube pubescent above within, 

 not gibbous at the base, the limb strongly 2-lipped, 

 about half as long as the tube; filaments and style 

 glabrous, exserted ; fruit about 3" in diameter. 



North Carolina to Kentucky, Missouri, Georgia and 

 Alabama. April-May. 



7. Lonicera sempervirens L. Trumpet or 

 Coral Honeysuckle. Fig. 3985. 



Lonicera sempervirens L. Sp. PI. 173. 1753. 

 Lonicera sempervirens hirsutula Rehder, Rep. Mo. 

 Bot Card. 14: 169 1903. 



Glabrous or somewhat pubescent, high climbing, 

 evergreen in the South. Leaves oval, obtuse, 2'-3' 

 long, or the lower ones smaller, narrower and 

 acutish, the upper pairs connate-perfoliate, all 

 conspicuously glaucous and sometimes slightly 

 pubescent beneath, dark green above; flowers 

 verticillate in terminal interrupted spikes; corolla 

 scarlet or yellow, i'-ii' long, glabrous or some- 

 what pubescent, the tube narrow, slightly expanded 

 above, the limb short and nearly regular ; stamens 

 and style scarcely exserted; berries scarlet, about 

 3" in diameter. 



In low grounds, or on hillsides, Maine to Florida, 

 New Hampshire, New York, Nebraska and Texas. 

 Woodbine (N. C). Scarlet trumpet-honeysuckle. 

 April-Sept. 



8. Lonicera japonica Thunb. Japanese 

 or Chinese Honeysuckle. Fig. 3986. 



Lonicera japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. 89. 1784 



Pubescent, climbing high or trailing. Leaves 

 all short-petioled, ovate, entire, i'-3' long, 

 acute at the apex, rounded at the base, dark 

 green and glabrous above, pale and usually 

 sparingly pubescent beneath ; flowers in pairs 

 from the upper axils, peduncled, leafy-bracted 

 at the base, white or pink, fading to yellow, 

 pubescent without, the tube nearly i' long, 

 longer than the strongly 2-lipped limb; sta- 

 mens and style exserted ; berries black, 3"-4" 

 in diameter. 



Freely escaped from cultivation, Connecticut, 

 New York and Pennsylvania to North Carolina, 

 Florida and West Virginia. Naturalized from 

 eastern Asia. June-Aug. 



