CHAP, LXIII. CAPRIFOLIA CEH. LONI‘CERA. 1043 
Xylésteum, Caprifdlium, Chamecérasus, Pericl¥menum, Tourn. Inst., t. 378. and 379. ; Caprifdlium 
and Lonicera, Roem. et Schult. Syst. ; Lonicera and Xyldésteum, Torrey Fl. Un. St.; Cheévre- 
feuille, Fr. ; Geissblatt, Honeigblume, and Lonicere, Ger. 
Derivation. Named after Adam Lonicer, a German, who was born in 1528, and died in 1556. There 
was another Lonicer, John, who wrote comments on Dioscorides. 
Description, §c. Twining or erect shrubs, natives of Europe, the north of 
Africa, Asia, and America. The greater number of the species and varieties 
are of easy culture in British gardens, in common garden soil; and they are 
all propagated by cuttings, or some of them more readily by layers. The 
flowers of some of the species are highly fragrant and 796 
ornamental; and that of the common European honey- 
suckle is supposed to have given rise to one of the most ¢z2z 
beautiful ornaments of Grecian architecture (jig. 796.) Cony Sg 
Price of plants, in the London nurseries, from 6d. to i) 
2s. 6d. each; at Bollwyller, from 50 cents to 2 francs ; 
and at New York, from 25 cents to half a dollar. 
The genus Lonicera of Linnzeus was separated by Roemer and Schultes into 
the genera Lonicera and Caprifolium ; but they were reunited by De Candolle, 
whose arrangement has been followed by Sir W. J. Hooker and G. Don, and is 
adopted by us on the present occasion. The distinctive characters of the 
sections are as follows : — 
Caprifolium. Plants twining. Flowers in capitate whorls. 
Xylésteum. Plants twining or erect. Flowers axillary. 

§ i. Caprifolium Dee. 
Identification. Dec. FI. Fr., 4. p. 270.; Prod., 4. p. 331. 
Synonymes. Caprifdlium Juss. Gen., 212., Reem. et Schult. Syst., 5. p. 19. Lonicera Torr. Fl. Un. 
St., 1. p.242., but not of Schult. J 
Derivation. From caper,a goat, and folium, a leaf; in reference to the climbing habit of the 
species ; or, as appears much more probable, because goats are fond of browsing on its leaves. 
Sect. Char. Berries solitary, while young 3-celled, but when mature usually 
1-celled, crowned by the tube of the calyx, which is permanent. Flowers 
disposed in capitate whorls. Twining shrubs; natives of Europe, the 
north of Africa, China, Nepal, and North America; all of easy culture, 
and tolerably hardy, but none of them of long duration. 
A. Flowers ringent.— Caprifolium Tourn. Inst., p. 608. 
£1. L. Pericty’menum L. The Woodbine, or common Honeysuckle. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 247. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p.331. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 445. 
Synonymes. Periclymenum Ger. Emac. p.891.; Periclymenum germanicum Riv. Mon. Trr., t. 122. ; 
P. horténse Gesn. Icon. Pict., fasc. 1. 38. t. 7. f.49.; Caprifolium Periclymenum Ram. et Schuilt., 
5. p. 262.; Caprifolium sylvaticum Lam. Fl. Fr., 3. p.565.; Caprifdlium Raz Syn., p. 458., Engl. 
Gard. Cat.,t. 5. ; Woodbind; Chévrefeuille des Bois, Fr.; wildes gemeines Geissblatt, Ger.; ge- 
woone Kamperfoelie, Dutch ; Lego Bosco, Ital. ; Madre Selva, Span. 
Derivation. Periclymenum, from peri, round about, and ku/id, to roll. | Woodbine is a corruption of 
Woodbind, and both allude to the habit of the common sort, of winding itself round every tree and 
shrub within its reach, and binding them together. As Mason observes, this plant 
** Loves to hang on barren boughs remote 
Her wreaths of flowery perfume.” 
In the time of Chaucer, the woodbine was considered as the emblem of true love, from this pro- 
perty. The name of honeysuckle has reference to the fondness of children for this plant, who amuse 
themselves with drawing the trumpet-shaped corollas from the calyx, to suck the honey from the 
nectary. Chévrefeuille and Geissblatt both signify, literally, goat’s leaf; and Lego Bosco is bind- 
wood. The Spanish and Dutch names, Madre Selva, wood mother, and Kamperfoelie, the 
champion mace, seem to have little relation to the plant. 
Engravings. Smith Engl. Bot., t. 800.; Curt. Fl. Lond., fase. 1. t.15.; Qéd. Fl. “Dan., t. 908. ; 
Schmidt Arb., t. 107. ; Svensk. Bot., t. 140.; Engl. Gard. Cat., t. 5.; Ger. Emac., p. 891., with a 
fig.; Riv. Mon. Irr., t. 122.; Gesn. Icon. Pict., fase. 1. 38, t. 7. f. 49. ; 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branches twining. Leaves all separate, deciduous, some- 
times downy, glaucous beneath, ovate, obtuse, attenuated at the base ; upper 
ones the smallest. Heads of flowers all terminal, ovate, imbricated. 
Flowers ringent. There are varieties of this species with either smooth, 
pubescent, or variegated leaves ; and, when the plant grows by the sea side, 
they are occasionally more glaucous and rather succulent. Corollas exter- 
nally deep red ; or, in the earlier-flowering varieties, all over buff-coloured ; in 
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