Lonicera. CAPRIFOLIACE.E. 17 



L. grata, Ait. Glabrous : leaves obovate or oblong aud the itpper one or two pairs con- 

 nate, paler or somewhat glaucous beneath : flowers in terminal capitate cluster and from 

 the axils of the connate-perfoliate leaves : corolla reddish or purple outside ; the limb white 

 within, fading to tawny yellow; lips over half-inch long; tube not gibbous : berries orange- 

 red.— Kew. i. 231 ; Willd. Spec. i. 984 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 332 ; IJarlingt. Fl. Cest. ed. 2, 159; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 5. CaprifoUum gratuni, Pursh, Fl. i. IGl. — Moist and rocky wood- 

 lands, N. New Jersey to Pennsylvania aud mountains of Carolina according to I^u-sh, to 

 " VV. Louisiana, Hale," iu Torr. & Gray, Fl. But it may be doubted if really different 

 from L. CaprifoUum of Europe, and if truly indigenous to this country. 



-f— -t— Tube of corolla less than inch long, but larger than the limb; the throat or tube below 

 hairy within : Atlantic species. 



•H- Corolla bright orange-yellow; tube not gibbous, fully half-inch or more long: filaments and 

 stjie glabrous: •' dowers fragrant," produced early. 



L. flava, Sims. Somewhat glaucous, wholly glabrous : leaves broadly oval, 2 or 3 upper 

 pairs couuate into a disk : flowers iu a terminal capitate cluster : corolla glabrous ; the slen- 

 der tube at upper part within or prolonged adnate base of filaments hirsute-pubescent. — 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1318 ; Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 338; DC. Prodr. iv. 332. CaprifoUum Fraseri, Pursh, 

 Fl. i. IGO, excl. N. Y. habitat. C. favuiii, Ell. Sk. i. 271. — "Exposed rocky summit of 

 Paris Mountain iu S. Carolina," iu Laurens Co., Fraser. This very ornamental plant was 

 first noticed in Drayton's View of South Carolina, published in 1802, p. 64, as growing on 

 Paris Mountain, Greeuville ; afterwards it Avas collected by Fraser. Ell. 1. c. Upper 

 Georgia, Boijkin, &c. It has not been fouad elsewhere ; but it is still sparingly in 

 cultivation. 



++ ++ Corolla shorter, more or less hirsute within the throat ; tube usually somewhat gibbous. 



= Rather freely twining and high-climbing, little or not at all glaucous, pubescent: leaves deep 

 green above. 



L. hirsuta, Eatox. Leaves oval, conspicuously veiny and venulose both sides (3 or 4 

 inciies long), soft-pubescent (as also usually the brauchlets) and pale beneath; ujiper one 

 or two pairs connate, lower short-petioled : corolla orange-yellow fading to dull purplish 

 or brownish, more or less viscid-pubescent outside ; tube half-inch long, little exceeding the 

 limb; throat aud lower part of filaments hirsute. — Eaton, Man. Bot. ed. 2, 307 (1818); 

 Torr. Fl. i. 342 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3103, & Fl. i. 282 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 6. L. viflosa 

 Muhl. Cat. 22, not DC. L. Douglasii, Hook. 1. c, being CaprifoUum Douglasii, Lindl. 

 Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. 244 ; DC. 1. c. ; Loudon, End. Trees & Shrubs, .530, fig. 972. L. 

 parviflora, var. 1 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 7, mainly. L. puhesccns. Sweet, Hort. Brit. 194; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 332; Loudon, End. Trees & Shrubs, 529 (under L. flara). L. Goldii, Spreng. 

 Syst. i. 758. CaprifoUum pubescens, Goldie in Edinb. Phil. Jour. vi. 323 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. 

 t. 27. — Rocky banks, &c., Northern New England aud Canada to Penn., Michigan, and 

 north shore of Lake Superior to the Saskatchewan. 



= == Feebly twining or merely sarmcntose or bushy, 2 to 6 feet high, conspicuously glaucous. 



Li. SuUivantii, Gray. At length much whitened with the glaucous bloom, 3 to G feet 

 high, glabrous : leaves oval and obovate-oblong, thickish, 2 to 4 inches long, all those of 

 flowering stems sessile, and most of them connate, the ui)permost into an orbicular disk : 

 corolla pale yellow, glabrous outside ; tube half-inch or less long, little longer than the 

 limb: filaments uearly glabrous. — Proc. Am Acad. xix. 76. — L. n. sp.? Sulliv. Cat. PL 

 Columb. 57. L. flax^a, var. Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 6 ; Gray, Man., mainly. — Central Ohio to 

 Hlinois, Wisconsin, and Lake Winnipeg . also Tennessee and apparently in mountains of 

 N. Carolina. 



L. glauca, Hill. Glabrous, or sometimes lower face of leaves tomentulose-puberulent, 



3 to 5 feet high, generally bushy: leaves oblong, often undulate (glaucous, but less whitened 

 than in the preceding, 2 or at most 3 inches long), 2 to 4 ujiper pairs connate : corolla quite 

 glabrous outside, greenish yellow or tinged or varying to purple, short ; the tube only 3 or 



4 lines long, rather broad, nearly equalled by the limb, within and also style and base of 

 filaments hirsute. — Hort. Kew. (1769) 446, t. 18; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 77. L. dioica, 

 L. Syst. Veg. 215 ; Ait. Kew. i. 230; Bot. Reg. t. 138, but not ditecious. L. media, Murr. 

 in Comm. Gcett. 1776, 28, t. 3. L. parviflora, Lara. Diet. i. 728 (1783) ; Torr. Fl. i. 243 ; DC. 



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