LONICERA 293 



Besides the typical form with pirik flowers there are forms with white 

 flowers and with various shades of pink flowers, some with considerably 

 larger leaves and flowers than the type. Flowers in May. 



Lonicera coerulea Linne 1753 



Erect shrub, 3 dm. to 1 m. high, bark light brown, much shredded, 

 twigs pubescent; leaves oval, narrow-oblong or obovate, thick, upper side 

 hairy, or smooth, lower side pale, coarsely hairy, margin ciliate, tip round 

 or obtuse, base rounded or narrowed, length 2-4 cm., width 8-20 mm., 

 petioles about 1 mm. long; flowers in pairs from the axils of the lower 

 leaves, peduncle 2-8 mm. long, bracts at base of ovaries awl-shaped, 3-5 

 mm. long, hirsute, ovaries of the two flowers completely united, glabrous, 

 limb of calyx very minute, scarcely lobed, glabrous, corolla pale yellow, 

 glabrous in Minnesota specimens, the tube slightly gibbous at the base, 

 about 7 mm. long, the lobes nearly equal, about 5 mm. long, stamens 

 exserted ; fruit an oval bluish-black berry, bearing the scars of two flowers 

 close together near the summit, edible : coerulea, blue, from the color 

 of the fruit. 



Wet woods and bogs. Labrador to Alaska, south to Pa., Mich. Yel- 

 lowstone Park and Oregon, also occurs in Scandinavia and Switzerland. 

 In Minnesota confined to the northeast corner of the state. Flowers in 

 May and June, fruit ripe about August 1. 



The American specimens of this species are assigned to the variety 

 villosa (Michaux) Torrey & Gray. Minnesota and Wisconsin specimens, 

 as well as those of the western U. S. have thinner and less veiny leaves 

 than those from Europe and eastern North America. 



Lonicera Morrowi A. Gray 1856 



Spreading shrub, about 2 m. high, bark grayish brown, twigs finely 

 pubescent ; leaves oblong, thick and veiny, dark green above, paler be- 

 neath, upper side finely and sparsely hairy, lower side hairy, margin 

 ciliate, tip obtuse or rounded, base cordate, length 2.5-5 cm., width 1.5-2.5 

 cm., petioles about 3 mm. long; flowers in pairs, axillary, peduncles 7-10 

 mm. long, bracts small, pubescent and ciliate, the two longest linear, 3-5 

 mm. long, the others ovate, about 2 mm. long, ovaries separate, limb of 

 calyx with 5 obtuse, triangular, ciliate teeth, corolla white, yellow or 

 fading, pubescent, the tube 7-10 mm. long, the limb with 5 slightly ir- 



