LoNicERA. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 7 



Rocky banks and margin of thickets, in damp soil, Canada ! and Michi- 

 gan ! (around Lake Huron and Lake Superior!) and in the northern parts of 

 New York! and tlie New England Stales! June-July. — Stem often twin- 

 ing to the height of 15-30 feet, with somewhat pubescent branches. Leaves 

 3-4 inches long, and 2-3 broad, membranaceous, conspicuously veiny, often 

 somewhat rugose, sprinkled with scattered hairs above (some of which are 

 usually a little glandular or viscid), conspicuously ciliate, often abruptly 

 acute or slightly pointed at the base and apex ; the upper surface nearly 

 glabrous when old. Peduncles and even the ovaries often covered with a 

 minute viscid or glandular pubescence, like that of the corolla. Flowers nu- 

 merous, sulphur-yellow. Corolla hairy inside; the tube 6-8 lines long; the 

 limb large and much expanded. Stamens and style exserted; the latter, 

 like the filaments, more or less hairy below, sometimes hirsute. Berries 

 orange, 3-5-seeded. 



8. L. parvijlora (Lam.): glabrous; stem trailing or twining; leaves el- 

 liptical or oblong, smooth, shining above, very glaucous beneath, with a 

 slight often undulate cartilaginous margin ; the upper pair connate-perfoliate ; 

 the others sessile and mostly somewhat connate ; flowers in a more or less 

 pedunculate head or 2-3 closely approximate whorls ; corolla short, glabrous 

 externally, gibbous at the base ; filaments somewhat hairy below. — Lam. 

 diet. \.p. 728 ; Torr. ! fl. 1. ^j. 245 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 87 ; DC. I 

 jn-odr. 4. p. 332 ,- Hook.Jl. Bor,-Am. 1. p. 282 ; Darlingt. ! fl. Cest. p. 158. 

 L. dioica, Linn. syst. {ed. 13) p. 181 ; Ait. Kew. {ed. 1) 1. p. 130; Bot. 

 reg. t. 138. "L. media, Murr. in comm. Gcett. (1776) p. 28, t. 3." Capri- 

 folium glaucum, Manch, meth. p. 602. C. bracteosum, Michx.! fl. \.p. 

 105. C. parviflorum, PurshI fl. 1. p. 161. C. dioicum, Rmn. Sf Schult. 

 syst. 5. p. 260. 



ji. ? leaves pubescent or even somewhat villous-tomentose beneath : the 

 lower ones distinct, sessile or slightly petioled ; corolla pubescent. — L. par- 

 viflora ji. Hook. I. c. L. Doiiglasii, DC. I. c. Caprifolium Douglasii, 

 Lindl. in hort. trans. 7. p. 244. C. parviflorum, Eichards. appx. Franld. 

 journ. ed. 2.]). 6, ex Hook. 



Rocky banks of rivers, &c. Canada! (from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky 

 Mountains, a. & /j. Hook.) and from the New England States! to Missouri, 

 and sparingly in the mountains of the Southern States, /i. Saskatchawan 

 &c., Douglas. Near Fort Gratiot, Michigan, Dr. Pitcher! On limestone 

 cliffs along the Scioto &c. Ohio, Mr. SuUivant! May-June. — Stem 6-10 

 feet long. Leaves 2-3, or on young shoots even 4 inches long, some- 

 times with a slight and sparse deciduous pubescence beneath, but usually 

 perfectly glabrous ; the lower ones often narrowed at the base, but sessile. 

 Corolla 8-9 lines long, including the short spreading limb, yellow tinged 

 with dull purple. Stamens exserted. Berries orange. — lu our var. /?. from 

 Ohio, the pubescence of the lower surface of the leaves is apparently deci- 

 duous, and in vigorous shoots they are often 4 or 5 inches long ; the lower 

 ones inclined to ovate-lanceolate. We have little doubt that this is the same 

 with the Caprifolium Douglasii of Lindley (although we have never observed 

 the leaves in the slightest degree ciliate), and it has the appearance of a dis- 

 tinct species : but our specimens from Fort Gratiot are exactly L. jjarviflora, 

 except in the pubescence, and are doubtless the same as Hooker's plant, 

 " which may be seen gradually passing into the usual glabrous apjiearance.'* 

 The stamens and style are at first about the length of the corolla. 



t t Natives of Oregon and California. 



9. L. Californica: twining; branches glabrous, or sometimes hairy along 

 one side; leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous, glaucous beneath, not ciliate ; the 

 uppermost connate-perfoliate ; the others distinct, often slightly jjetioled ; 



