112 GAMOPETALOUS EXOGENS 



DIVISION II. GAMOPET'ALOUS EXOGENOUS PLANTS. 



FLORAL ENVELOPES usually consisting of both calyx and corolla, 

 the petals more or less united.* 



ORDER XLVII. CAPRIFOLIA V CEAE. 



Shrubs, or rarely herbaceous; leaves mostly opposite, and without stipules; calyx- 

 tube adherent to the ovary ; stamens usually as many as the lobes of the corolla, 

 and inserted on its tube ; ovary 2- to 5- celled ; fruit berrylike, or capsular ; embryo 

 in the axis of fleshy albumen. 



TRIBE 1. LONICE^REAE. 



Corolla, tubular, often irregularly lobed ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate. 



L. 



[Dedicated to the memory of Adam Lonicer, an old German Botanist.] 

 Calyx-teeth very short. Corolla often irregularly 5-lobed, and some- 

 times gibbous at base. Ovary 2- or 3-celled. Berry several-seeded. 

 Twining or upright shrubs : leaves often connate ; flowers axillary. 



JSP" TWINING SHRUBS : leaves entire, upper ones connate ; flowers in axillary v erti- 

 cils, more or less fragrant; calyx-teeth persistent ; corolla ringent. 



1. 1,. gr&tcl 9 Ait. Leaves sub-perennial, obovate, 2 or 3 upper 

 pairs connate, the lower ones subpetiolate ; corolla not 'gibbous at 

 base, tube long. 

 AGREEABLE LONICERA. American Woodbine. Wild Honeysuckle. 



Stem 10 to 15 or 20 feet long, branching, the young branches often pilose. Leaves 

 1 to 2 or 3 inches long, rather obtuse and often slightly emarginate, glaucous and 

 reticulately veined beneath. Flowers in verticils of about 6, in the axils of the 

 upper connate leaves ; corolla externally red or purplish, the limb at first nearly 

 white, soon becoming tawny yellow, the tube an inch or more in length, tapering 

 to the base, and somewhat resembling a Cornucopia, smooth within. Stamens ex- 

 serted, about equalling the style. Berries orange red, at maturity. 

 Hah. Moist, rocky woods ; along streams : not common. Fl. May. Fr. July. 



Obs. This species bears considerable resemblance to the common 

 cultivated species (L. Caprifblium, L.), though the flowers have a 

 rather stronger and less agreeable odor. Honeysuckles have always 

 been favorite plants, for decorating arbors, and porticos; and are 

 much frequented by the exquisitely beautiful little Humming-bird. 

 They are thus alluded to, by SHAKSPEARE : 



" And bid her steal into the pleached bower, 



Where Honeysuckles, lipen'd by the sun, 



Forbid the sun to enter ; like favorites, 



Made proud by Princes, that advance their pride 



Against that power that bred it." 



* Some instances of dialypetalous flowers occur in this Division, in ORDER LIV. 

 ERICACEAE (viz : in the genus Clethra, and Suborders, PYROLEAE and MONOTROPE^). 

 The petols are also nearly distinct, in the genera Ilex and Prinos, of the ORDERLY. 

 AQUIFOLIACE^. 



The plants belonging to ORDER XL. CUCURBITACE^ although often gamopetalous, 

 will be found in the dialypetaloos division; also some of the ORDER XXXIV. LEGU- 

 MINOSJE, as in Trifolium, &c. Our native species of Fraxinus belonging to ORDER 

 LXXIV. OLEAC&E, and arranged at the end of the GAMOPETAJLE are destitute of petals. 



