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externally of a darkish red or yellowish, but varying greatly in its 

 colour, sometimes a pale straw colour, more or less clothed with glan- 

 dular hairs, the limb very unequally divided into two segments, the 

 upper one reflexed upwards, broad and notched at the extremity, in 

 three rounded shallow lobes, the lower segment narrow, linear, obtuse, 

 reflexed downwards, the tube scattered over on the inside with simple 

 hairs, and on the lower part of it with a considerable number of small 

 glands, which secrete the fragrant perfume. Stamens of irregular 

 lengths, rising from the top of the tube, nearly as long as the corolla* 

 Filaments slender, smooth. Style as long as the corolla, slender, 

 smooth. Stigma capitate, notched. Berry globular, of a bright 

 shining red, sometimes roughish, of a bitter nauseous taste. 



Habitat. — Woods and hedges; frequent. 



Shrub; flowering from June to October. 



The Honey-suckle varies considerably in the size of its plants, and 

 in the smoothness and the colour of its flowers ; these circumstances 

 depending upon the more or less open or close situation, and the kind 

 of soil in which it grows. The fragrance of its flowers is most 

 grateful, especially in the morning or evening, or after a refreshing 

 shower; and this is owing to the volatile oil secreted by the glands 

 mentioned above, being rapidly dissipated by the heat of the sun, and 

 scarcely sensible; but when it is less rapidly evaporated either in 

 the cool of the day, or after a shower, it is then perceived, and its 

 balmy fragrance adds no little to the pleasures of a ramble at such a 

 season — for 



" Look where'er you may, a tranquillising soul 

 Breathes forth a life-like pleasure o'er the whole ; 

 The shadows settling on the mountain's breast, 

 Recline, as conscious of the hour of rest ; 

 Stedfast as objects in a peaceful dream, 

 The sleepy trees are bending o'er the stream ; 

 The stream half veiled in snowy vapour flows 

 With sound like silence, motion like repose." 



The Honey-suckle is cultivated for a variety of useful as well as 

 ornamental purposes ; but never to our minds is it more beautiful or 

 ornamental than when its branches are nicely arranged on the face of 

 a little white-washed cottage, overhung by its thick thatched roof, or 

 the pliant branches interwoven in the lattice work around the labourer's 

 door : the sweet fragrance of its fresh blown flowers is wafted in gentle 

 puff's around the frugal board, and repays in two fold pleasures the 

 care bestowed upon its growth and training. 



** Flowers in pairs. Calyx deciduous, not crowning the Berry, 

 Stem erect. 



3. L. Xylos'teum, Linn. (Fig. 379.) upright Fly Honey-suckle. 

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