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cymelike clusters of as many as 5, but usually 3, flowers. They 

 begin to blossom in late May and continue through the early 

 half of June. The light yellow corolla turns reddish in age. The 

 fruit, which matures in autumn, is a smooth, oblong, 2-celled 

 capsule about ^4 i^^h long, terminated by a beak crowned with 

 the 5 persistent sepals. It contains many small seeds, which are 

 closely pitted on the surface. 



Distribution. — The Bush-Honeysuckle, a shrub of dry and 

 often sandy soils shaded by woods, ranges from Newfoundland 

 to Saskatchewan and south to North Carolina and Kentucky. 

 In Illinois, it is a frequently observed though rather rare 

 shrub limited in occurrence to the northeast corner of the 

 state, where it has been most abundantly recorded in Cook, 

 Lake and Du Page counties; also it has been recorded at 

 Castle Rock in Ogle County, Starved Rock in La Salle 

 County, and Rock Creek in Kankakee County. 



