208 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Section II.— XYLOSTEUM. Linn. 



Stem self-supporting, more rarely climbing. Elowers in pairs, 

 at the extremity of an axillary peduncle with 2 bracts at the apex. 

 Calyx-limb deciduous. Corolla-tube funnelshaped-cylindrical. 



SPECIES III— LONICERA XYLOSTEUM. Linn. 



Plate DCXLIII. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XYII. Tab. MCLXXIV. Figs. 1, 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 789. 



Stem self-supporting. Leaves deciduous, shortly stalked, oval 

 or obovate-oval, pubescent on both sides ; peduncles axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves, 2-flowered; ovary pubescent. Bracts 

 linear, pubescent ; bractioles suborbicular, pubescent, applied to 

 the calyx-tube. Elowers in pairs at the extremity of an axillary 

 peduncle, equalling them in length. Calyx-limb slightly lobed, 

 about one-third as long as the ovary, deciduous. Corolla-tube not 

 half as long as the ringent limb, pubescent, with hairs not tipped 

 with glands. Berries adhering to the base. 



In thickets and hedges in several places, but probably native 

 only near Arundel, Sussex, if even there. Hertfordshire is also a 

 station in which it has been supposed to be native. 



England, [Scotland,] [Ireland.] Shrub. Early Summer. 



A branched shrub, 3 to 6 feet high, with slender flexuous twigs 

 and pubescent shoots. Leaves 1^ to 3 inches long, finely pubes- 

 cent above, more densely so beneath. Elowers ^ inch long, white 

 changing to pale buff-yellow. Corolla-tube swollen at the base, the 

 upper lip with 4 rounded lobes, the lower elliptical, entire. Base of 

 the filaments and style pubescent. Berries the size of small cur- 

 rants, red. Plant pale-green. 



Upright Fhj -Honey suckle, 



French, Chevrefeuille des Raies. German, Gemeine Lonitzere. 



The specific name of this species has reference to the hardness of its wood, and 

 comes from the two words £,vXor {xulon), wood, and o(jTeot' {osteon), a bone. The clear 

 parts between the joints of the shoots are used in Sweden as tubes for tobacco-pipes, 

 and the wood from its hardness makes teeth for rakes. 



