344 Yellow to Orange Flowers 



spreading; stamens and style slightly exserted. Fruit: berries nearly 

 black. 



This is one of the small-flowered Honeysuckles which 

 grow in the form of a bushy shrub. It bears yellow funnel- 

 form twin blossoms, terminating the long slender peduncles 

 which spring from the axils of the leaves. These blossoms 

 are conspicuously involucred (hence the common name) by 

 large broad leaf-like bracts, which are green in the flower- 

 ing season and turn a warm reddish colour in autumn, when 

 surrounding the fruit. The five stamens protrude slightly 

 beyond the corolla, but the style is much exserted, and is 

 tipped by a large anther. 



The Involucred Fly Honeysuckle is a straggling shrub, 

 growing from two to six feet high ; the leaves are long- 

 shaped and have hairy margins, and w^hen in fruit the red- 

 dish-black berries are joined together in pairs. It is not a 

 plant that is likely to attract the traveller's interest, for it is 

 noticeable only by reason of its rich luxuriant foliage, since 

 the flowers are small and the berries quite dark in hue. 



Loniccra titahcnsis, or Bush Fly Honeysuckle, grows 

 from three to five feet high, and is branching and very 

 bushy. The leaves are oblong and bright green and have 

 wavy smooth margins. The pale yellow flowers, whose 

 corollas are cleft into two lips, grow in pairs on long slen- 

 der peduncles from the axils of the leaves, and are sub- 

 tended by small bracts, in which latter respect they differ 

 materially from the Involucred Fly Honeysuckle, which has 

 very large broad bracts. The fruit consists of egg-shaped 

 berries, which are more or less joined together and are of 

 a lovely translucent scarlet colour, — 



" Like a double cherry, seeming parted." 



