48 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



are equally striking. The stamens are five in number, and 

 the long- central style will be seen like a thread issuing 

 from their midst. The clusters of berries that succeed the 

 flowers are of a deep crimson colour. 



The perfoliate honeysuckle (L. caprifoUum) may, at 

 rare intervals, be met with in a wild state ; it is very 

 common in old-fashioned gardens, and at times, as a cast- 

 away, gets established, though it is not truly indigenous. 

 It may at once be known by the bases of the pairs of leaves 

 growing together, so that the stem appears to penetrate 

 through the centre of a double leaf. The flowers are very 

 similar to those of the common kind. The fly -honey suckle 

 (L. Xylosteum) is so rare in a wild state that it is altogether 

 beyond our scope to give particulars of a plant that none of 

 our readers may probably find, and that in any case has no 

 claim to be considered indigenous. 



