90 Honeysuckle (Caprifoliacece). [No. n 



Leaves, simple, opposite, entire. 



Fruit, red or orange, several-seeded, marked with the per- 

 sistent teeth of the calyx. A berry. 



Woody vines. 



Fig. 45. Trumpet Honeysuckle. L. sempervirens, Ait. 



Flowers, trumpet-shape, nearly regular, without fragrance, 

 about two inches long. Corolla, deep red without, 

 or rarely yellowish, yellowish within ; bulging on one 

 side. Stamens and style only slightly exserted. May 

 to July. 



Leaves, variable, ovate to oblong or lance-shape, smooth, 

 the upper united by their bases, the lower with stems ; 

 in the South persistent and evergreen, but falling in 

 the North. 



Found, very common in cultivation, and wild from 

 Connecticut to Indiana and southward. 



A showy and vigorous twining shrub, sometimes in 

 rich soil climbing to the top of forest trees. Very orna- 

 mental in cultivation. 



Blossom resembling Fig. 46. American Woodbine. Evergreen 

 Honeysuckle. Yellow Honeysuckle. L. grata, Ait. 



Flowers, very fragrant, spreading at the mouth ; the lower 

 lip narrow, the upper lip broad and four-toothed, in 

 clusters of five or six blossoms. Corolla, about one 

 and a half inches long ; the slender tube reddish or 

 purplish, the rest whitish, all changing to yellowish ; 

 smooth within, not swollen and not hairy at the base. 

 Stamens and style smooth and much exserted. May, 

 June. 



