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the maritime plant, smaller and greenish. Berries nearly globular, red, deep, 
bitter and nauseous, accompanied by permanent bracteas. (Don’s Mill., 
iii. p. 445.) A twining shrub, which always turns from east to west; native 
of Europe, common in hedges, groves, and thickets; plentiful in Britain. 
Flowering in June and July; and, in moist summers, also in August, and 
sometimes in September. In gardens, by pruning and watering, the plants 
may be kept flowering all the summer. 
Varieties. : 
2 L. P. 2 serotinum Att. 
Hort. Kew.,i. p. 
378., Hort. Angl., 
Wo ENO: 4. te Wes 
Mill. Icon., t.79., 
Riv. Mon. Irr., t. 
122.; Periclyme- 
num germanicum 
Mill. Dict., No.4., 
Schmidt Baum., \ 
t.108.; and our Nay 
jig. 797. — Branches glabrous. Flowers late, reddish. (Don’s Mill., 
ii, p. 445.) This, the late red honeysuckle, produces a greater num- 
ber of flowers together than either the Italian or Dutch honeysuckle, 
so that it makes a finer appearance than either of them during its 
period of flowering. It has not been so long an inhabitant of our 
gardens as the Dutch honeysuckle; for, about the year 1715, it was 
considered a great curiosity ; when it was called the Flemish honey- 
suckle, and was, probably, brought over by the Flemish florists, who, 
about that time, came to England annually with flowers and plants 
for sale. (Martyn’s Mill.) 
4L. P.3 bélgicum ; Periclymenum germanicum Mill. Dict., No.4., Hort. 
Ang., 15. No. 5. t.6.— Branches smooth, purplish. Leaves oblong- 
oval, of a lucid green above, but pale beneath, on long petioles. 
Flowers in terminal verticillate heads; each flower arising out of a 
scaly cover, reddish on the outside, and yellowish within ; of a very 
agreeable odour. This, which is commonly called the Dutch honey- 
suckle, may be trained with stems, and formed into heads ; which the 
wild sort cannot, the branches being too weak and trailing for the 
purpose. (Don’s Miil., ii. p. 445.) 
4 L.P. 4 quercif dlium Ait. Hort. Kew. has the leaves sinuated like those 
of an oak. This variety is to be found in England, in a wood near 
Kimberly, Norfolk; and near Oxford. There is a subvariety of 
this, with the leaves slightly marked near the margin with yellow. 
The flowers are like those of the species. It is called the oak-leaved 
honeysuckle. 
History, Culture, Uses, §&c. The earlier writers attribute virtues to this shrub 
which are now entirely given up: but the beauty and exquisite fragrance of 
the flowers make it a favourite plant in gardens and shrubberies. “ This,” 
Sir J. E. Smith observes, “is the true woodbine of poets, though it is like- 
wise the twisted eglantine of Milton, in the well-known lines, — 

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‘Through the sweet briar, or the vine, 
Or the twisted eglantine , ”’ 
Shakspeare is, however, guiltless of this blunder. He says, — 
**So doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle, 
Gently entwist the maple: ” 
and, in Much ado about Nothing, uses both names indiscriminately for the 
bower in which Beatrice lies concealed, — 

“ Couch’d in the woodbine coverture ; ” 
