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Swamp Fly Honeysuckle 



Lonicera oblongifolia (Goldie) Hooker 



Plate 2l4b 



An erect, branching shrub, 2 to 8 feet high, the branches and twigs 

 with opposite, elliptical or elliptical-oblong leaves, rather thick and firm 

 when mature, glaucous and reticulate- veined, smooth when mature, downy- 

 pubescent, but not ciliate when young. Flowers in pairs on axillary stalks 

 which are as long or longer than the flowers. Corolla strongly two-lipped, 

 yellowish or purplish within, three-fourths of an inch long, tube of the 

 corolla enlarged on one side at the base. Stamens five, attached to the 

 tube of the corolla within. Fruit consisting of two fleshy, bright-red, 

 berries at the summit of each peduncle, remaining distinct or more or less 

 grown together. 



In bogs and swamps, New Brunswick to Manitoba, south to Pennsyl- 

 vania, Michigan and Minnesota. Flowering in May and June. 



The Early Fly Honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis Marshall), 

 of moist and rich rocky woodlands, has thin, green, ciliate leaves and yellow 

 or greenish yellow flowers, appearing with the leaves in April or early May. 

 It is also a small shrub, 2 to 5 feet high. 



The Blue or Mountain Fly Honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea 

 Linnaeus) (figure XXXIII) occurs in swamps and low grounds, chiefly in the 

 Adirondacks. It is a small shrub with oval or obovate, blunt leaves and 

 small, yellow flowers. The fruit is a bluish black, two-eyed berry. 



The Hairy Honeysuckle (Lonicera hirsuta Eaton) is a twining 

 and climbing vine several feet long with the foliage and new stems hairy, 

 the upper leaves united around the stem, flowers i to i| inches long, orange- 

 yellow turning reddish. 



The Smooth-leaved or Glaucous Honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica 

 Linnaeus) (figure XXXIV) of rocky woodlands and sometimes in swamps, 

 is smooth throughout, twining or climbing, the upper leaves united around 

 the stem, all of them whitish or glaucous beneath, flowers small, yellowish 

 green tinged with purple, fruit bright-red. 



