88 Honeysuckle (Caprifoliacecz). [No.n 



Cluster-stems, about three inches in length, erect, 

 slightly hairy. June. 



Leaves, small, simple, opposite, rounded, with scattered 

 hairs, sometimes with very slightly lobed or wavy 

 edge. 



Fruit, dry. Cells, three (two of them abortive), ripening 

 but one seed. A capsule. 



Found, in damp woods and bogs from the mountains of 

 Maryland far westward, and northward to the Arctic 

 Ocean. 



A delicate trailing plant, evergreen, herbaceous, with 

 slender steins that branch and root until they carpet the 

 ground. 



I was a boy on a tramp among the mountains of New 

 Hampshire, when I first found these pretty and fragrant 

 little bells among wide reaches of damp moss. I did not 

 know then of Linnaeus' liking for the flower, and I knew 

 little of botany, but I ranked it then and have ranked it 

 ever since as among the daintiest of all the flowers that 

 grow. 



There is said to be a portrait of Linnaeus in which the 

 button-hole of the coat is ornamented with this flower. 



(2) Genus LONICERA, L. (Honeysuckle). 



From the name of a German botanist of the sixteenth century. 



Flowers, tubular, or funnel-form, in stemless clusters in the 

 axils of the upper leaves. Corolla, five-cleft, often 

 swollen at the base. Calyx, small, and very short 

 five-toothed. Stamens, five. Seed-case, two- or three- 

 celled, few-seeded, adherent to the calyx. 



