I 84 LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS. SCARLET HONEYSUCKLE. 



woods. It is very often found, however, In the deeper shade, 

 and then its flowers are few. In these cases, even in Pennsyl- 

 vania where it is occasionally found, its trailing stems retain the 

 leaves green all the winter, though Dr. Gray says " leaves de- 

 ciduous in the North," referring probably to cultivation. The 

 plant is not found wild beyond Southern New York, whence it 

 extends down to Louisiana and Florida, and Mr. Butler, in the 

 first volume of the " Botanical Gazette," notes that it is found 

 across the Mississippi in Arkansas. Usually it favors low, moist 

 places, but Mr. Howard Shriver, in the same magazine, states 

 that it is found on cliffs of the New river in Virginia. Most of 

 the species of Honeysuckle have the mouth of the corolla divided 

 into two distinct portions or "lips;" our species is peculiar In 

 having the mouth but slightly notched, and the divisions mostly 

 regular. It is from this that it derives Its name of " Trumpet 

 Honeysuckle," From its bright color It Is also called quite fre- 

 quently the " Scarlet Coral Honeysuckle." It will be Interesting 

 to compare the manner of flowering with that of many other 

 species of Honeysuckle. In some the leaves as well as the 

 flowers are perfecdy formed at each node. The flowering is then 

 said to be axillary. In our species the leaves are nearly or en- 

 tirely suppressed, and this makes the flowering appear In terminal 

 racemes. It is further remarkable that In the case of those species 

 which have this terminal character the upper leaves generally 

 unite, and often Increase In size. We may also note that when 

 this union occurs there is much difference in the velning of the 

 leaves, and this gives color to the view of some German mor- 

 phologists that it is the growth of the leaf-blade that decides the 

 number and position of the veins, and not that the veins are first 

 formed as if they were the skeleton, the leaf-blade in form and 

 character beinsf then made to suit the veins. 



