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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



green and fast to the great masses of stems — wildly run- 

 ning stems — that bear them. I refer to the Japanese 



Honeysuckle {Loiiiccra japonica). Next summer I will 



give a beautiful photograph of this vine, but right here I 



desire to show that it, too, bears black, shiii\ berries in the 



fall (most honey- 

 suckles bear red or 



orange berries) ; 



but see how differ- 

 ent these berries 



are from the ones 



borne on the Smi- 



lax vine. They 



have not the 



" bloom " upon 



them, nor are they 



borne upon the ex- 

 tremities of little 



stemlets. This is 



a good thing to 



know ; and, as I 



say, we will take 



up this favorite 



flower again, for it 



is worthy of a 



much fuller de- 

 scription, with a 



few lines on its 



place in the flower- 

 system in nature. 



I must be in a 



spring mood in 



order to describe 



honeysuckles, for 



they stand among 



the most beautiful 



flowers that embel- 

 lish the roadsides 



and woods at that 



season. 



In some of the 



old pastures in the 



winter-time, when 



the dead vegetation 



is all covered with 



the untrodden and 



glistening snow, 



one may see, in 



scattered groups 



and ranging in 



height from a yard 



to five or six feet, 



such curious- 



appearing growths 



as the ones I show 

 in Figure 4. These are called " Gypsy Combs " and a good 

 many other fancy names, while they really are the dried 

 and dead heads of the wild or common Card Teazel 



(Dipsaciis sylvestris) . They are given natural size in 



the figure ; and were we to follow their stems down, it 

 would be seen that they branch in two and twos from a 

 common point on the main stem ; here, too, a pair of the 

 narrow, lancehead leaves are found. In the spring the 

 liny purple or lilac flowers are densely packed in be- 

 tween these hard, 

 stiiT-pointed struct- 

 ures that form the 

 cylindrical heads 

 shown in my pho- 

 t o g r a ph . This 

 Teazel represents 

 the Dipsacacew or 

 Teazel family, and 

 there are not many 

 representatives of 

 it in this country, 

 although three gen- 

 era have been 

 created to contain 

 them. 



There are 

 nearly sixty differ- 

 ent kinds of Gol- 

 denrod in the flora 

 of the United 

 States, all being 

 contained in the 

 genus Solidago. 



The 



fomis 



known 



server 



common 

 are well 

 to any ob- 



THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



Fig. 3. — This is designated as the Caprifoliacea, a small group of interesting vines, often bearing very 

 fragrant flowers. The specimen here shown is of the Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera iaponica); it 

 will be noticed that its berries are black and not red or yellow, which is the case with our American 

 Woodbines or honeysuckles. The Japanese honeysuckle was introduced into this country from Asia, 

 and it is now extremely abundant from New England to Florida, especially along highways and bvwavs. 

 It is the honeysuckle of the roadside. The fragrant flowers are white, pink, or yellow. 



of flowers 

 in nature. Next 

 s u m m e r I shall 

 touch upon the 

 most prominent 

 species of this 

 group, while in the 

 present article I 

 show how a Gol- 

 denrod appears 

 when it goes to 

 seed in the au- 

 tumn ; there are 

 two species shown 

 in the cut. 



It will be no- 

 ticed that in the 

 one the locust is 

 resting upon, the 

 separate stems 

 bearing the flowers 

 do not run up into 

 a point, but are 



nearly all in the same plane at their upper ends. Some- 

 times this variety is found in full flower when it is no 

 more than a foot high, while I have seen specimens of it 

 that had grown to be about four feet high. Scientifically, 



