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CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



2. LONICERA L. 



Erect or climbing shrubs or vines, with opposite mostly entire leaves; 

 flowers spieate, capitate or geminate, usually somewhat irregular. Calyx- 

 tube ovoid or nearly globular, the limb slightly 5-toothed, Corolla often gib- 

 bous at the base, the limb 5-lobed, more or less oblique, or 2-lipped. Stamens 

 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla. Ovary 2-3-celled; ovules numerous, 

 pendulous; style slender, stigma capitate. Berry fleshy, 2-3-celled or rarely 

 1-celled, few-seeded. Seeds with fleshy endosperm and a terete embryo. 

 [Named for Adam Lonitzer, 1528-1586, a German botanist.] About 160 

 species, of the north temperate zone, a few in tropical regions. Type species: 

 Lonicera Capri folium L. 



1. Lonicera japonica 

 C^ff ^ Thumb. Japanese or Chinese 



Honeysuckle. (Fig. 405.) 

 A pubescent, climbing or trail- 

 ing vine, sometimes 15° long 

 or more. Leaves short-peti- 

 oled, ovate, entire, V-?>V long, 

 acute at the apex, rounded at 

 the base, dark green and gla- 

 brous above, pale and usually 

 sparingly pubescent beneath; 

 flowers leafy-bracted at the 

 base, white or pink, fading to 

 yellow, pubescent without, the 

 tube longer than the strongly 

 2-lipped limb; stamens and 

 style exserted; berries black, 

 3"-4" in diameter. 



Waste grounds and road- 

 sides, escaped from cultivation. 

 Introduced, Native of eastern 

 Asia. Widely naturalized in 

 the eastern L'nited States. 

 Flowers freely in summer and 

 autumn. Commonly planted for 

 ornament. 



Lonicera sempervirens L., Trumpet Honeysuckle, North American, a 

 glabrous high climbing vine, with oval or oblong leaves pale beneath, the 

 upper pairs connate-perfoliate, the scarlet to yellow tubular flowers in terminal 

 clusters, with corollas an inch long or more, is planted for ornament on walls 

 and porches. [Caprifolium sempervirens Michx.] An elegant vine was seen 

 at Cedar Lodge in 1914. 



Lonicera Caprifolium L., Italian Honeysuckle, European, is a vine 

 with foliage similar to that of the Trumpet Honeysuckle, the upper pairs of 

 leaves connate-perfoliate, but the corolla is purple and strongly 2-lipped, the 

 upper lip 4-lobed, the lower lip narrow and reflexed. [Caprifolium italicum 



Medic] 



Lonicera Xylosteum L., Fly Honeysuckle, European, credited to Ber- 

 muda by Jones, is a shrub up to 6° high, with pubescent ovate to obovate 

 leaves, the yellowish-white flowers in pairs on axillary peduncles^ followed by 

 scarlet berries. 



