454 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



A hardy climber over rocky banks or moist grounds, reaching 

 a length of 20 to 30 feet. The branches are reddish. Maine to 

 Pennsylvania, and westward. 



29. Trumpet Honeysuckle 



Z. scmpervireiis is often found in cultivation. It is wild from 

 Connecticut southward. Flowers scentless, with tubular corol- 

 las 2 inches long, red outside, yellow within, in spiked whorls. 

 Berries deep orange-red. The upper leaves join around the 

 stem ; the lower are on short petioles; all bright, shining, ever- 

 green, smooth, oblong or broadly oval. A twining and climb- 

 ing shrub. 



30. Sweet Wild Honeysuckle 



Z. grata has tubular flowers, i inch long, purple or pink, 

 with a whitish border, becoming yellowish, the flowers whorled 

 in the leaf-axils above, and very fragrant. Time, May. 



Often cultiv'ated, but found growing wild in rocky woodlands 

 in New England, New Jersey, and southward. 



x^ 31. Climbing Hempweed 



Mikania scandens. — Family, Composite. Color, pink. 

 Leases, opposite, heart-shaped or triangular, toothed at base, 

 with petioles. Time, July to September. 



Corollas, tubular, 5-toothed. Heads of 4 flowers, with 4 in- 

 volucral scales. 



The only climbing Composite. It twines around bushes and 

 forms a tangle of green, intermixed with pretty pink clusters of 

 flowers. They have a way of lying flat over the tops of bushes 

 and forming areas of deep pink. They can be seen in almost any 

 wet [)lace on Long Island or in New Jersey, to Kentucky and 

 southward. The leaves wilt quickly after being picked. 



32. Yellow Jessamine, or Jasmine 

 Gelsemium sempervirens.— Family, Logania. Color, h\ig\\t 



