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3. ADOX'A, L. MOSCHATEL. 



A small glabrous succulent herb. Rootstock creeping ; buds scaly ; stem 

 simple, 2-leaved. Leaves temately cut. Flowers small, green, in a 

 5-flowered peduncled head, tenninal 4 lateral 5-merous. Calyx-tube hemi- 

 spherical ; limb 4-superior, 2-3-lobed. Corolla rotate, 4-5-lobed. Sta- 

 mcns 8-10, on the tube of the corolla, in pairs alternating with its lobes ; 

 anthers peltate, 1 -celled. Disk 0. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style short, 

 3-5-partite, stigma terminal ; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous. 

 Drupe, girt by the calyx-teeth, with 3-5 compressed cartilaginous cells. 

 Seeds obovate, embryo minute. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Asia, Himalaya, E. 

 and W. N. America. ETYII. & and $6a, in allusion to its insignificance. 

 Each pair of stamens is perhaps one, with separate anther-cells. 



1. A. Moschatellina, L. ; leaflets broadly triangular-ovate. 

 Damp hedgebanks and tree roots, rather local ; ascends 3,300 ft. in the 



Highlands; fl. April-May. Stems 6-8 in., 4-angled. Radical leaves 1-2- 



ternate, leaflets |-f in. , irregularly 3-lobed ; petiole slender, dilated at the 



base ; cauline 3-foliolate. Head -f in. diam., sub-4-angular, yellow-green. 



Corolla J in. diam. Fruit succulent, green. Odour musky. A Kashmir 



variety has 5-6-merous flowers. 



4. LONICE'RA, L. HONEYSUCKLE. 



Erect, prostrate, or climbing shrubs, with scaly buds. Leaves opposite, 

 entire, exstipulate, of the young shoots sometimes lobed. Flowers in 

 peduncled cymes or heads, often connate in pairs by the ovaries, and sub- 

 tended by connate bracteoles. Calyx-tube ovoid or subglobose ; teeth 5, 

 often unequal. Corolla tubular, funnel- or bell-shaped ; tube equal or 

 gibbous at the base ; limb oblique or 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Disk 

 tumid. Ovary 2-3-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate ; ovules many in 

 the inner angle of each cell. Berry fleshy, 2-3-celled ; cells few-seeded, 

 septa sometimes wanting. Seeds ovoid or oblong, testa crustaceous. 

 DISTRIB. Temp, and warm regions of the N. hemisphere; species 80. 

 ETYM. A. Lonicer, a German botanist. 



1. I>. Pericly'mentim, L.; leaves ovate or oblong upper sessile, flower- 

 heads terminal peduncled. Woodbine or Homysuckh. 

 Hedges and copses ; ascends to 1,500 ft. in Durham ; fl. June Sept. Glabrous 

 or slightly pubescent. Stem 10-20 ft., climbing. Leaves 1-3 in., lower 

 shortly petioled, upper sessile, glaucous below. Bracts small. Calyx-teeth 

 persistent. Corolla 1-1 1 in., glandular-pubescent, dirty red outside, yellow 

 within. Berries globose, crimson. DISTRTB. Europe, N. Africa. 



L. C'APRIFO'LIUM, L. ; upper leaves connate, heads terminal sessile. 

 Copses in Cambridge and Oxford ; doubtless introduced; fl. May-June. Gla- 

 brous. Stem twining. Leaves glaucous beneath ; lower petoiled, broadly 

 ovate or oblong ; upper oblong or triangular, connate by very broad bases. 

 Bracts leafy, very large, connate. Calyx-limb short, persistent. Corolla 

 as in L. Periclymenum. Berries globose, scarlet. DISTRIB. Mid. and S. 

 Europe. 



L. XYLOS'TEUM, L. ; leaves petioled, flowers axillary in pairs. 

 '''jji-os. Sussex, Hertfordshire; not indigenous; fl. May-June. Pubescent. 



