Vermont Shrubs and Woody Vines 177 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. CAPRIFOLIACEAE 



This family is to be rated with the cornels, heaths and roses 

 as a source of ornamental shrubs. Nearly all of the Vermont 

 species are shrubs. Some of them furnish dyes and medicines 

 of minor value, but it is chiefly for the beauty of foliage, flower 

 and fruit that they are valued. All are attractive in nature and 

 most of them are used for landscape planting. The family 

 characters are shown in the opposite leaves, rather conspicuous 

 and often irregular flowers, and berry-formed fruit. The six 

 genera are distinguishable as follows : 

 1. Flowers in broad, compound clusters 5. 



1. Flowers solitary in pairs, or in narrow clusters 2. 



2. A creeping vine Twinflower. 



2. Upright or climbing shrub 3. 



3. Fruit a dry capsule Bush honeysuckle. 



3. Fruit a fleshy berry 4. 



4. Berry white, only 2-seeded Snowberry. 



4. Berries colored, several seeded Loniceras. 



5. Leaves compound Elders. 



5. Leaves simple Virburnums. 



TWIN-FLOWER. Liiinaea borcalis L. var. americana (Forbes) 



Rehder. 



This daintiest of trailing plants occurs occasionally in moist, 

 mossy woods especially under evergreens. It is found in north- 

 ern Europe as well as x\merica and was named for the great 

 Swedish botanist, Linnaeus, with whom it was an especial fa- 

 vorite. It has a slender, woody stem which may creep for several 

 feet beneath the surface of the moss and humus. From this, 

 short stems arise which bear the small round leaves in pairs and, 

 near the summit, slender flower stalks two or three inches high, 

 forking at the top to support the two delicate fragrant, nodding, 

 rose-tinted flowers. , 



BUSH-HONEYSUCKLE. DiervUla lonicera Mill. {D. trifida Moench) 



This is a modest little shrub, two to three feet high, spread- 

 ing from the root so as to form groups, bordering woodlands 



