170 CAPRIFOLIACEJ. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) 
ovoid-oblong, narrowed into a neck above. — Mountains of North Carolina. 
June. — Stem 2°-4° high. Flowers greenish-yellow. 
2. D. sessilifolia, Buckley. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, closely sessile and | 
somewhat clasping; peduncles many-flowered ; capsule cylindrical-oblong, nar -— 
rowed into a short neck above.— With the preceding. — Leaves and capsule i 
-~ larger than in that species. 
8. LONICERA, L. WoonpBiNE. HONEYSUCKLE. 
Calyx ovoid, 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, 5-cleft, often bilabiate, and gibbous. 
near the base. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-3-celled, with several ovules in each cel. — 
Berry 1 - 3-celled, several-seeded. Seeds bony. — Erect or twining shrubs, with 
entire, often connate leaves. Flowers by pairs or in spiked whorls. pr 
1. L. sempervirens, Ait. Stem twining; leaves oblong or lanceolate, 
pale and tomentose beneath, the upper pair shorter and connate; spikes ter 
minal; whorls distinct; corolla nearly equally 5-lobed, scarlet or orange with- — 
out, yellow within. (Caprifolium, Ell.) — Margins of swamps, Florida, andi 
northward. April- Sept. — Leaves perennial. Corolla 2’ long. ae 
2. L. grata, Ait. Stem twining; leaves obovate, glaucous beneath, the E 
2 or 3 upper pairs connate; whorls of flowers axillary and terminal; corolla E T 
labiate, the tube long and slender.— Mountains of Carolina, and northward. 
May. — Young branches often hairy. Corolla 1}! long, with a red or purplish — 
tube and a white limb, changing to yellow. Berry orange-red. 
3. L. flava, Sims. Smooth and somewhat glaucous ; stem scarcely twining; |. 
leaves oval or obovate, the upper pairs connate; whorls of flowers crowded, ter- _ qM 
minal; corolla slender, bilabiate. — Banks of rivers in the upper districts of B c 
Georgia and South Carolina. June and July.— Corolla 1' long, bright yellow; - 
the 4-cleft limb nearly as long as the tube. E 
4. L. parviflora, Lam. Smooth; stem twining; leaves elliptical, glam _ Ds 
cous beneath, all more or less connate; whorls of flowers crowded, peduncled; — — 
corolla short, bilabiate, gibbous at the base; stamens hairy below.— Mountain — — 
of North Carolina. — June. — Corolla 8-10" Jong, yellow and purplish. 7 
4. TRIOSTEUM, L. FEVER-WORT. 
. Calyx ovoid, with 5 leafy linear-lanceolate persistent lobes. Corolla tubular, 7€ | 
equally 5-lobed, rather longer than the calyx: Stamens 5. Ovary s-celled, — 
single ovule in each cell. Fruit a dry drupe containing 3 bony nutlets. 
— Perennial hairy herbs, with large leaves, narrowed but connate at the basè, — 
and sessile axillary flowers. — or 
. 1. TT. perfoliatum, L. Stem soft-hairy ; leaves oval, acuminate, entire, 
hairy abo ve tomentose beneath; flowers commonly clustered, brownish-purple. 
‘the upper districts. June and July. — Stem 29-4? high. 
