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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM, 



creeping, throwing up suckers. (Don's 

 Mill.) A bushy shrub. Carolina, 

 New England, and Newfoundland, on 

 rocks and the highest mountains. Height 

 3 ft. to 4< ft. Introduced in 1739. Flowers 

 yellow ; June and July. Fruit brown ; 

 ripe in September. 



961. D. canadeusis. 



962. D. canadensis. 



There are a number of varieties of this species, differing in respect to the 

 size of the flowers and of the leaves, but they are not worth keeping distinct. 



GENUS IV. 



LONFCEIU Desf. 



Identification. Desf. Fl. Atl., 

 ymes. Lonicera sp. Lin 



THE LOMCERA, or HONEYSUCKLE. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



p. 183. ; Dec. Prod, 4. p. 330. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 444 



Lin. Syst. 



212.; 



Synonymes. Lonfcera sp. Lin., and many authors ; Caprifolium and Xylusteum Juss. Gen. p. 



Xylosteum, Caprifolium, Chamaecerasus, Periclymenum Town. Inst. t. 378. and 379. ; Caprifblium 



and Lonicera Rcem. et Schult. Syst. ; Lonfcero and Xylosteum Torrey Fl. Un. St. ; Chevre- 



feuille, Fr. ; Geissblatt, Honeigblume, and Lonicere, Ger. 

 Derivation. Named after Adam Lonicer, a German, who was born in 1528, and died in 1556. There 



was another Lonicer, John, who wrote comments on Dioscorides. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tube 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, campanulate, or funnel- 

 shaped, with a 5-cleft, usually irregular, limb. Stamens 5. Style filiform. 

 Stigma capitate. Berries 3-ceiled. Seeds crustaceous. (Doris Mill.) 



Leaves simple, opposite, stipulate, deciduous, or evergreen ; sometimes 

 connate, entire, occasionally runcinate in the same species. Flowers ax- 

 illary, or capitate, variously disposed. Shrubs, erect or twining; natives of 

 Europe, the North of Africa, Asia, and America. 



The greater number of the species and varieties are of easy culture in 

 British gardens, in common garden soil ; and they are all propagated by 

 cuttings, or some of them more readily by layers. The flowers of some of 

 'the species are highly fragrant and ornamental ; and that of the common 

 European honeysuckle is supposed to have given rise to one of the most 

 beautiful ornaments of Grecian architecture. Cf The honeysuckles offer an easy 

 opportunity of improvement, by intermixing the fragrant and more vigorous 

 with the yellow and the scarlet." (Herb. Amaryll. p. 363.) The genus Lo- 

 nicera of Linnaeus was separated by Rcemer and Schultes into the genera 

 Lonicera and Caprifolium ; but they were reunited by DeCandolle, whose 

 arrangement has been followed by Sir W. J. Hooker and O. Don, and is 

 adopted by us on the present occasion. The distinctive characters of the 

 sections are as follows : 



Caprifd/ium. Plants twining. Flowers in capitate whorls. 

 Xylosteum. Plants twining or erect. Flowers axillary. 



i. Caprifolium Dec. 



Identification. Dec. Fl. Fr., 4. p. 270. ; Prod., 4. p. 

 Synonymes. Caprifdlium Juss. Gen. 212. ; Lonfcera 



331. 



Torr. Fl. Un. St. 1. p. 242., but not of Schult. 



