Lvnicera.] CAPRIFOLIACE/E. 133 



with reflexed prickles; flowers 5-cleft. Br. Fl.l.p. 65. E. 

 Fl. v. i.p. 211. E. Bot. t. 851. 



Dry gravelly banks and rocks on the south side of Howth, and Kil- 

 liney Hill ; also abundant on limestone rocks at Mucruss and Kil- 

 larney. Hedges near Passage, County of Cork ; Rev. Dr. Hindis. 

 Fl. June — Aug. If.. — Mr. Wilson justly remarks, as stated by Dr. 

 Hooker, that the corolla is rather rotate than campanulate, which is 

 the case in some foreign species ; (or funnel shaped as in R. tincto- 

 rioii) ; the segments, after the escape of the pollen, spreading with 

 convex surfaces, concave in the newly opened ilovvers. 



Ord. 35. CAPRIFOLIACE/E. Juss. Honeysuckle Family. 



Tube of the calyx adnate with the ovary, the limb 5-lobed. 

 Corolla of one petal, inserted upon the calyx, the limb more or 

 less lobed, sometimes irregular. Stamens inserted upon the 

 calyx, adnate with the base of the corolla, alternate with its 

 lobes, equal in number with them (one sometimes abortive), 

 exserted or included : filaments subulate : anthers ovate, 2-celled ; 

 style exserted or wanting. Stigmas 1 or 3, distinct or collected 

 into a head. Berry crowned with the limb of the calyx, gene- 

 rally dry, or fleshy, 1 — or more-celled. Seeds solitary, 2 or 

 many in each cell, sometimes several abortive, pendulous ; testa 

 crustaceous. Albumen fleshy. Embryo in the centre of the al- 

 bumen ; radicle superior ; cotyledons ovato-oblong. — Shrubs, 

 rarely trees. Leaves opposite, without stipules, or usually so, sim- 

 ple or pinnated. Flowers terminal and corymbose or axillary. 



§ Lonicerece. 

 Corolla monopelalous. 



1. Loniceua. Linn. Common Honeysuckle. 



Corolla irregular. Berry 1 — 3-celled, many-seeded— Name 

 given in honour of Adam Lonicer, a German Botanist. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. L. Peridymenum, Linn. Common Honeysuckle, or Wood- 

 bine. Flowers ringent, capitate, terminal; leaves all distinct. 

 Br. FlA.p. 103. ^E. Fl. v. i. p. 326. E. Bot. t. 800.— Capri- 

 folium Perich/menum, Lindl. Syn. 



p. Caprifolium, non perfoliatum, foliis sinuosis et variegatis. 

 Tourn. Inst. 608. Dill, in Raii Syn. 458. 



In hedges, groves, among rocks, and in bushy places, frequent. (3. 

 Among rocks on Killiney Hill, near the Obelisk. Fl. June— Oct. 

 T? . — Berries solitary and distinct. Stem invariably twining in one 

 direction. In the var. (3. the leaves are sinuated like those of an oak, 

 and sometimes variegated. 



