222 CLIMBERS 



Lonicera Caprifolium, L. Perfoliate Honeysuckle 

 (Fig. 111). Of similar habit to the last. Naturalised in 

 Cambridgeshire and elsewhere. Best distinguished by the 

 sessile heads of flowers, closely subtended by the last pair 

 of connate leaves. 



tt Sub-shrub, occasionally coiling, but often 

 merely flinging the branches over others : 

 cortex not fibrous. Leaves alternate, but 

 regularly displaced. Flowers small violet- 

 blue ; berries red. 



Solanum Dulcamara, L. Bittersweet. The Bittersweet 

 climbs to about 3 6 feet, and dies far back in winter. 

 Twigs smooth, yellowish-grey. Inflorescence a much 

 branched panicle and leaf-opposed. The branches may 

 coil in either direction, or not (see p. 226). 



** Not twining by the stems as a whole, but 

 climbing by means of special organs, or 

 merely scrambling over other plants. 



[For (ft) t Tendril-climbers, which twist their thin 



see p. 224.] filamentous tendrils round twigs, &c., or 



insert the tips of such organs into crevices 



where they adhere. 



The tendrils are the petioles of opposite 

 pinnate leaves, with buds in their axils. 

 Shoots angular and silky. Flowers greenish- 

 ichite. Fruits bearded with plumose styles. 



Clematis Vitalba, L. Traveller's Joy (Fig. 112). This 

 plant may reach 20 feet and more in height. Twigs 

 6-angled and furrowed, olive-green or more or less purplish, 

 smooth, or with slight pubescence at nodes. Older branches 

 yellowish-grey, fibrous or peeling, twisted. Often recognis- 

 able in early winter by the heads of bearded achenes, and 

 by the fact that no other British plant climbs by opposite 

 leaf-stalks. 



