Lonicera. CAPRIFOLIACE^. 17 



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

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

 the axils of the conuate-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. 2.31 ; Willd. Spec. i. 984 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 332 ; Darlingt. Fl. Cest. ed. 2, 159 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 5. Caprifollum fji-atuin, Pursh, Fl. i. 161. — Moist and rocky wood- 

 lands, N. New Jersey to Pennsylvania aud mountains of Carolina according to Pursh, to 

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

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



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

 hair}' within: Atlantic species. 



++ Corolla bright orar.ge-yellow ; tube not gibbous, fully half-inch or more long: filaments and 

 style glabrous: •' flowers fragrant," produced early. 



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

 pairs connate 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. Caprifolium Fraseri, Pursh, 

 Fl. 1. 160, excl. N. Y. habitat. C. flavum, Ell. Sk. i. 271. —" Exposed rocky summit of 

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

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

 Paris Mountain, Greenville ; afterwards it was collected b}' Fraser. Ell. 1. c. Upper 

 Georgia, Boijkin, &c. It has not beeu found elsewhere; but it is still sparingh' iu 

 cultivation. 



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



= Rather freel}' twiuing 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 

 inches long), soft-pubescent (as also usually the branchlets) and pale beneath; upper one 

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

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

 limb; throat and lower part of filaments hii'sute. — 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. rillosa 

 Muhl. Cat. 22, not DC. L. Douglasii, Hook. 1. c, being Caprifolium Douglasii, Liudl. 

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

 pari-iflora, var. ? Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 7, mainly. L. pubescens, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 194; DC. 

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

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

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

 north shore of Lake Superior to the Saskatchewan. 



= = Feebly twining or merely sarmeutose or bushy, 2 to 6 feet high, conspicuoush' glaucous. 



Li. SuUivantii, Gray. At length much whitened with the glaucous bloom, 3 to 6 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 uppermost into an orbicular disk : 

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

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

 Columb. 57. L. flava, var. Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 6 ; Gray, Man., nmiuly. — Central Ohio to 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, and Lake Winnipeg . also Tennessee and apparently in mountaius of 

 N. Carolina. 



L. glaiica, 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 upper pairs connate : corolla quite 

 glabrous outside, gi-eenish 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 dioecious. L. media, Murr. 

 in Comm. Goett. 1776, 28, t. 3. L. paruiflora, Lam. Diet. i. 728 (1783) ; Torr. Fl. i. 245 ; DC. 



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