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outside, yellowish within : a cultivated and loss showy variety has pale yellow 

 blossoms. 



* * Corolla ringent : the lower lip narrow, the upper broad and i-lobed. 



2. L. grata, Ait. (America*? Woodbine.) Leaves smooth, glaucous 

 beneath, obovate, the 2 or 3 upper pairs united ; flowers whorled in the axils of 

 the uppermost leaves or leaf-like connate bracts ; corolla smooth (whitish with a 

 purple tub,:, fading yellowish), not gibbous at the base, fragrant. — Rocky wood- 

 lands, New York, Perm., and westward: also cultivated. May. 



3. IL. fiiltva, Sims. (Yellow Honeysuckle.) Leaves smooth, very pale 

 and glaucous both sides, thickish, obovate or oval, the 2-4 upper pairs united into 

 a round cup-like disk; flowers in closely approximate whorls; tube of the 

 smooth {light yellow) corolla slender, somewhat gil .its almost or 

 quite smooth. — Rocky banks. Catskill Mountains (Pursh), Ohio to Wisconsin 

 (a variety with rather short flowers), and southward along the Alleghany 

 Mountains. June. 



4. L. pai'Vifldra, Lam. (Small Honeysuckle.) leaves smooth, ob- 

 long, green above, very glaucous beneath, the upper pairs united, all closely sessilcj 

 flowers in 2 or 3 closely approximate whorls raised on a peduncle ; corolla gib- 

 bous at the base, smooth outside (greenish-yellow tinged with dull purple), short (§' 

 long) ; filaments rather hairy below. — Rocky banks, mostly northward. May 

 June. — Stem commonly bushy, only 2° -4° high. 



Var. Douglasii. Leaves greener, more or less downy underneath when 

 young; corolla crimson or deep dull purple. ( L. Douglasii, DC.) — Ohio to 

 Wisconsin northward. 



5. L. hii'SUta, Eaton. (Haiky Honeysuckle.) Leaves not glaucous, 

 downy-hairy beneath, as well as the branches, and slightly so above, veiny, dull, 

 broadly oval ; the uppermost united, the lower short-petioled ; flowers in ap- 

 proximate whorls ; tube of the (orange-yellow) clammy -pubescent corolla gibbous at 

 the base, slender. — Damp copses and rocks, Maine to Wisconsin northward. 

 July. — A coarse, large-leaved species. 



$ 2. XYLOSTEON, Juss. — Upright bushy shrubs : leaves all distinct at the base: 

 peduncles axillary, single, 2-bracted and 2-fiowered at the summit ; the two bem'es 

 sometimes united into one : calyx-teeth not persistent. 



6. Li. ciliata, Muhl. (Fly-Honeysuckle.) Branches straggling (3° - 

 5° high); leaves oblong-ovate, often heart-shaped, petioled, thin, downy beneath; 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves ; bracts minute ; corolla funnel-form, gibbous at 

 the base (greenish-yellow, %' long), the lobes almost equal ; berries separate 

 (red). — Rocky woods; New England to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, north- 

 ward. May. 



7. L. crarulea, L. (Mountain Fly-Honeysuckle.) Low (l°-2° 

 high) ; branches upright; leaves oval, downy when young; peduncles very short; 

 bracts awl-shaped, longer than Uie ovaries of the two flowers, which are united into one 

 (blue) berry. (Xylosteum villosum, Michx.) — Mountain woods and bogs, Mas- 

 sachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and northward ; also Wisconsin May. 

 — Flowers yellowish, smaller than in No. 8. (Eu.) 



