CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 353 
LONICERA. Honeysuckle. 
(Family Caprifoliaceae). 
Bushes or woody twiners: de- 
ciduous or exceptionally partly or 
wholly evergreen. Twigs rounded, 
mostly slender: pith moderate, 
pale or brown, in some groups ex- 
cavated between the nodes. Buds 
often superposed with the lower- 
most largest or developing into an 
inflorescence the first season, ses- 
sile, variously shaped, with 2 to 
rather numerous 4-ranked scales. 
Leaf-scars opposite, crescent- 
shaped, small, on the narrowed 
extremities of raised bases that 
are more or less connected by 
transverse lines: bundle-traces 3: 
stipule-scars lacking. 
Sometimes divided into several 
genera: Caprifolium, Distegium, 
Xylosteum, ete. References under 
Leycesteria. 
1. Bushy: buds often superposed. 2. 
Twining: buds solitary: pith excavated. 17. 
2. Pith white, continuous. 3. 
Pith brown, excavated between the nodes. 12. 
3. Buds 
with valvate lower scales. 4. 
Bud-seales parted, the lower mostly short. 7. 
4. Buds 
Buds 
Buds 
5. Buds 
_ Buds 
6. Buds 
Buds 
flattened, closely appressed, elongated. 5. 
flask-shaped, ascending, elongated. 6. 
short, spreading. (Mountain fly-h.). L. caerulea. 
pale, long (10 mm.). (1). L. hispida. 
brown, shorter (8 mm.). L. chaetocarpa. 
rather long (7 mm.). (2). L. Standishii. 
moderate (5 mm.). L. fragrantissima. 
