PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Lonictia. .323 



FL in pairs, bnicteated. Berries single-celled, distinct. 

 Stem erect. 



The bra?ic/u'S, as well as leaves, of both arc ojij)osite ; the 

 latter simple, undivided, except casually; in some partly 

 confluent and perfoliate. 7-7. oltcn fraorant. Fruil not 

 eatable. 



With the other LinnoLnm sections, whether entitled to rank 

 as distinct genera or not, we have no concern in an En- 

 glish Flora. I cannot account for the words "5/J///5 hi- 

 dlvisls" in the original specific character of Z. r^;7^/r«, 

 which apply, as Mr. Brown observes, to the whole genus. 

 The germcns of each pair of flowers are indeed perfectly 

 united, or " undivided," in this species ; so that, as Lin- 

 naeus expresses it in his manuscript, " there are 2 flowers 

 to the same germen ;" and perhaps he wrote originally 

 " baccis coadunato-globosis, stijUs divisis'' 



1. L. Caprifolium. Pale Perfoliate Honeysuckle. 



Flowers ringent, whorled, terminal. Leaves deciduous; the 

 uppermost confluent and perfoliate. 



L. Caprifolium. Linn. Sp. PL 246. IVilld. v. ] , 982. FL Br. 2fi0. 



EngL Bot. V. 12. t. 799. Hook. Scot. 80. Jaco. Austr. t. 357. 



Ehrh.PLExsicc.\4]. 

 Caprifolium italicnm perfoliatum proecox. EngL GanL Cat. 14. ^ 5. 

 C. italicum. Dod. Pempt.AW.f. 



Periclymenum. Matth. falgr. v.2.32\.f. Camcr. Epit.7 13. f. 

 P. italicum. R'lv. Monop. Irr. t. 123. 

 P. perfoliatum. Ger. Em. 891. f- 



In woods and thickets, but rare. 



In a wood near Elsfield, Oxfordshire, plentifully. Rev. T. Butt. 

 In Chalk-pit Close, Hinton, Cambridgeshire, certainly wild ; 

 also in another coppice in the same parish. Rev. R. Relhan. In 

 several woods in the south of Scotland. Hooker. 



Shrub. Man, June. 



Stem woody, round, smooth, somewhat branched, twining from left 

 to right, and climbing, where it meets with supi)ort, to a consi- 

 derable height. Buds axillary, opposite, solitary, acute, glaucous. 

 Leaves obovate, entire, smooth, glaucous beneath • the lower 

 ones distinct, and somewhat stalked 3 2 or 3 of the upper pairs 

 united ; the uppermost of all forming a concave cup. FL in one 

 or more axillary whorls, 6 in each whorl ; the uppermost termi- 

 nal, with a central bud ; highly fragrant, 2 inches long, yel- 

 lowish, with a blush-coloured tube. CaL slightly toothed. 

 Berries elliptical, of a tawny orange, each crowned with the al- 

 most entire rah/ v. 



