28o THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



among-thorns, Mel-silvestre, Oodbine, Servoile, 

 Suckle-bush, Suckling, Sycamine, Trumpet Flower, 

 Widbin, Woodbind, Woodbine. 



In Scotland branches of Honeysuckle were 

 formerly hung up in the cowhouse on May 2nd to 

 preserve the cattle from bewitchment. 



LoNiCERA Periclymenum. — In Fig. 59 the flowers 

 are well shown with the five stamens and in some cases 

 the longer style and stigma, or in a few the latter is less 

 developed. 



38. The Bedstraw Group. 



Of this group, or the order Rubiaceae, named after 

 Rubia or Madder, there are some four thousand and 

 five hundred species and three hundred and fifty 

 genera. The British types belong to the Galieae. 



They are found in all parts of the world, but a 

 large number are tropical. Trees, shrubs, and 

 herbaceous types are represented in the order, the 

 latter often woody below. The stems are square in 

 section, The leaves are entire or occasionally toothed, 

 in whorls. The stipules are decussate, leaf-like, and 

 are between the leaf-stalks, or between the leaf-stalks 

 and the axis, and sometimes united to each other, 

 and to the leaf-stalks, forming a sheath round the 

 stem. The stipules are as large as the ordinary leaves. 



The inflorescence is cymose, or a branched cymose 

 panicle. In rare cases there are solitary, terminal 

 flowers. The flowers are small, usually hermaphro- 

 dite, regular, epigynous, with the parts of the 



