166 FLY HONEYSUCKLE 



panded depressed, covered with mealy scales and standing 

 between two plicate young leaves. Older twigs tawny. 

 Leaf-scars crescentic or shallow V-shaped ; leaf-bases not 

 prominent. Twigs with a tendency to be angular or 

 striate, yellowish brown, with scattered inconspicuous len- 

 ticels more evident as the twig ages ; branches pale brown 

 or tawny, becoming fissured and greyer brown. Young 

 leaves involute. Henry (Nov. Act. 1846) observed that 

 the innermost leaves have stipules. 



(/3) Buds covered by true scales, and neither 

 they nor the twigs mealy grey. 



* Bud-scales numerous or several, i.e. at 

 least 10 12, or more. Buds extended 

 and loose, the sharply keeled scales open- 

 ing very early in spring, and allowing the 

 tips of the leaves to protrude, giving a 

 frayed-out appearance to the whole. Basal 

 scales dry and membranous, pale yellowish 

 brown, those above more herbaceous, green 

 or tinged violet, and downy. Twigs yellow- 

 ish grey, downy. 



[See note regarding Honeysuckles on p. 159.] 



Lonicera Xylosteum, L. Fly Honeysuckle (Fig. 81). 

 Twigs whitish grey or dirty grey, hollow inside, slender 

 and glabrous or slightly hairy. Buds often in pairs, one 

 above the other in the axils, the lower dominant. Periderm 

 fibrous and torn. Terminal buds solitary. Bud-scales some- 

 what triangular, pointed and downy. Older branches with 

 the periderm torn into fibrous masses, grey. 



** Bud-scales few; not more than about 

 4 6 visible, at least on the lateral 

 buds. 



