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Flowers in pairs. The corolla is of a pale greenish yellow, 

 with a slight projection on one side of the tube. Berries in 

 pairs, diverging, egg-shaped, red, one fourth of an inch long. 

 The flowers are in twos, on a long footstalk, with two, slender, 

 short, thread-like bracts at the base of each. 



Sp. 2. The Hairy Fly Honeysuckle. L. ccerulea. L. 



A rough looking bush, from one to four feet high, with crowd- 

 ed, opposite, diverging branches, growing in bogs in the western 

 part of the State. The leaves come out with the flowers. The 

 flowers are on short stems, with long, slender bracts at the base 

 of the calyx. From one calyx proceed two yellow corollas, 

 bulging considerably outwards at the base of the tube, which 

 ends in oblong, erect lobes. The leaves are oval or oblong, 

 rough on both surfaces when young, but becoming smooth 

 above when old. The berries, which are made up of two 

 united ovaries, are blue, covered with a glaucous bloom. 



XVIII. 4. THE BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. DIERVILLA. 



Tournefort. 



A genus of three or four species of erect shrubs, indigenous 

 to North America and Japan, with opposite, ovate, acuminate, 

 sharply serrate leaves, on short stems, with axillary flowers, 

 two, three, or four on a stem, with two bracts at base. The 

 calyx-tube is cylindrical, and contracted at the summit ; the 

 ovary is two-celled, crowned with a fleshy disk, which fills the 

 throat of the calyx ; the fruit a crustaceous or leathery capsule, 

 with two cells, two valves, and many seeds. 



The Three-flowered Bush Honeysuckle. D. trljida. Moench. 



A bush from two to four feet high, with a root somewhat creep- 

 ing and horizontal, throwing up erect shoots. A projecting ridge 

 running down at equal distances on the four sides of the stem, 

 gives it a somewhat four-sided appearance. The recent shoots 

 are green or reddish green, with the projection very conspicuous 

 between the leaves. The stem is gray. The leaves are oppo- 

 site, on short footstalks, ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded or acute 



