CHAP. LXIII. CAPRIFOLIA CEH. LON)'CERA. 1055 
wood, being extremely hard, makes teeth 
for rakes, &c. Gmelin informs us that 
the Russians make an empyreumatic oil 
from the wood, which they recommend for 
cold tumours and chronic pains. Animals 
seldom touch theleaves. In hard weather 
birds eat the berries, which are reputed 
to be purgative and emetic. (Martyn’s 
Mill.) According to Pallas, an empyreu- 
matic oil is prepared from the branches 
when young; and the wood, which is ex- 
tremely hard, and yields only in beauty 
to L. tatarica, is used for walking-sticks. 
It is one of the oldest and hardiest inha- 
bitants of British shrubberies, having been 
in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden since 
1683; but, certainly, it cannot be recom- 
mended for its beauty, in a country pos- 
sessing such an extensive ligneous flora as we have in Britain. In the 
colder parts ofEurope, about Stockholm and Petersburg, for example, it 
is valuable, because it endures the severest winters. In the English 
garden, or rather park, at Munich, it is planted in masses and groups, along 
with other masses and groups of Cornus alba, Salix vitellina, and Vibarnum 
O’pulus ; and, in the winter time, the whitish-grey bark of its shoots con- 
trasts finely with the red, yellow, or brown, bark of the other species. 
Varieties. 
% I, X. 2 leucocarpa Dec. Prod., iv. p. 335., N. Du Ham., i. p. 52., has 
white berries. 
x% L, X.3 xanthocarpa Dec., |. c., N. Du Ham., |. c., has the berries yellow, 
#« I. X. 4 melanocérpa Dec., |. c., Bauh, Pin., p, 451., has black berries. 

#% 22, L. rLexuo'sa Thunb. The flexible-stemmed Honeysuckle. 
Identification. Thunb. in Lin. Trans., 2. p. $30., but not of Lodd., nor Ker; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 449. 
Synonymes. WL, nigra Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 89., but not of Lin, ; L. brachYpoda Dec. Prod., 4. p. 335. 
Spec. Char., &c. Erect, branched. Branches very villous at the apex. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute, 
on short petioles, glabrous; petioles villous ; nerves of leaves puberulous. Flowers axillary, few, 
almost sessile. Berries globose, glabrous. Stems flexuous. Leaves about an inch long ; upper 
ones the smallest. Peduncles hardly a line long. Berries distinct, ovate, acuminated, black. (Don’s 
Miil., iii. p. 449.) A shrub, growing to the height of from 4 ft. to 5ft., a native of Japan; which 
was introduced in 1806, and flowers in June and July. 
a. Hardy Species of Lonicera, belonging to the Division Chamecérasi of the 
Section Xylosteum, not yet introduced. 
L. htspida Pall,, Led. Fl. Ross.’ Alt. Il., t. 212., isa native of Siberia, growing to the height of 2 ft. 
or 3 ft,. with hispid branches, and pendulous greenish white flowers, which are succeeded by dark 
purple berries. 
C. Berries either distinct or joined together. Corolla very gibbous at the Base. 
Erect bushy Shrubs. — Cuphanthe Dec. 
Derivation. From kuphos, gibbous, and anthos, a flower ; in reference to the flower being gibbous 
on one side at the base. 
wz 23. L. invotucra‘ra Banks. The involucrated Honeysuckle. 
dees, Banks Herb. ex Spreng. Syst., 1. p.759.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 336.; Don’s Mill, 3. 
p. 449. 
Synonyme. Xylésteum involucratum Richards. in Frank. First Journ., ed. 1., append. p. 6, 
Engravings. Our figs. 817, 818, 819. 
Spec. Char., §c. Erect. Branches acutely tetragonal. Leaves ovate or oval, 
petiolate, membranous, beset with appressed hairs beneath. Peduncles 
axillary, 2—3-flowered. Bracteas 4; two outer ovate, two inner broad, 
obcordate, at length widening, clothed with glandular pubescence. Corolla 
pubescent, gibbous at the base on the outside; yellowish, tinged with 
red. Style exserted. (Don’s Mill., iii. p.449.) A shrub, 2 ft. to 3 ft. 
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