CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



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LONICERA. Honeysuckle. 



(Family Caprifoliaceae). 



Bushes or woody twiners: de- 

 ciduous or exceptionally partly or 

 wholly evergreen. Twigs rounded, 

 mostly slender: pith moderate, 

 pale or brown, in some groups ex- 

 cavated between the nodes. Buds 

 often superposed with the lower- 

 most largest or developing into an 

 inflorescence the first season, ses- 

 sile, variously shaped, with 2 to 

 rather numerous 4-ranked scales. 

 Leaf-s cars opposite, crescent- 

 shaped, small, on the narrowed 

 extremities of raised bases that 

 are more or less connected by 

 transverse lines: bundle-traces 3: 

 stipule-scars lacking. 



Sometimes divided into several 

 genera: Capri-folium, Distegium, 

 Xylosteum, etc. References under 

 Leycesteria. 



1. Bushy: buds often superposed. 2. 

 Twining: buds solitary: pith excavated. 17. 



2. Pith white, continuous. 3. 



Pith brown, excavated between the nodes. 12. 



3. Buds with valvate lower scales. 4. 

 Bud-scales parted, the lower mostly short. 7. 



4. Buds flattened, closely appressed, elongated. 5. 

 Buds flask-shaped, ascending, elongated. 6. 



Buds short, spreading. (Mountain fly-h.). L. caerulea. 



5. Buds pale, long (10 mm.). (1). L. hispida. 

 Buds brown, shorter (8 mm.). L. chaetocarpa. 



6. Buds rather long (7 mm.). (2). L. Standishii. 

 Buds moderate (5 mm.). L. fragrantissima. 



