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to 4- ft. Cultivated in 1822. Flowers deep red, scarlet, or crimson ; April 

 and May. Fruit ?. 



gi 22. L. XYLO'STEUM L. The bony-wooded, or upright, Fly Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 248. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 335. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 448. 



Synonymes. Caprifolium dumetdrum Lam. Fl. Fr. 3. p. 367. ; Xylosteum dumetbrum Mcench Meth. 



p. 502. ; Gisilostio, Ital. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 916. ; Fl. Graec., t. 223. ; and our^fg. 995. 



Spec. Char., $c. Erect, downy. Leaves 

 ovate, acute, petiolate, soft. Peduncles 

 2-flowered, shorter than the leaves. 

 Bracteas hairy, double ; the two outer 

 ones lanceolate, spreading ; inner a small 

 concave scale under each germ. Berries 

 oval, distinct, 1 -celled, 6-seeded. Flowers 

 small, cream-coloured, downy. Calyx of 

 5 obtuse lobes. Berries scarlet. (Don's 

 Mill.) An upright shrub. Europe, to 

 Caucasus, in thickets, hedges, and rocky 

 places, and by the sides of woods. 

 Height 8ft. to 10ft. Cultivated in 1596, 

 Flowers cream-coloured; July. Fruit 

 scarlet; ripe in September. Naked young 

 wood greyish white. 



Varieties. 



& L. X. 2 leucocdrpum Dec. Prod. iv. 

 p. 335. has white berries. 



& L. X. 3 xanthocdrpum Dec. 1. c. has the berries yellow. 



m L. X. 4 mclanocdrpum Dec. 1. c. has black berries. 



Linnasus says that it makes excellent hedges in a dry soil ; that the clear 

 parts between the joints of the shoots are used in Sweden for tobacco-pipes ; 

 and that the wood, being extremely hard, makes teeth for rakes, &c., and yields 

 only in beauty to that of L. tatarica for walking-sticks. It is one of the oldest 

 and hardiest inhabitants of British shrubberies. In the English garden, or 

 rather park, at Munich, it is planted in masses and groups, along with other 

 masses and groups of Cornus alba, Salix vitellina, and Fiburnum O'pulus ; 

 and, in the winter time, the whitish-grey bark of its shoots contrasts finely 

 with the red, yellow, or brown, bark of the shrubs mentioned. 



* 23. L. HI'SPIDA Pall. The hispid Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Pall, ex Willd. MSS. : Led. Flor. Ross Alt 



111., t. 212. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 449. 

 Engravings. Led. 1. c. ; and our Jig. 996. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches hispid. Leaves ovate, 

 ciliated, petiolate, glabrous on both surfaces. 

 Peduncles 2-flowered. Bracteas ovate-elliptic, 

 exceeding the berries. (Don's Mill.) An up- 

 right shrub. Siberia, on the Altaian Moun- 

 tains. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced ?. 

 Flowers greenish white, pendulous ; May and 

 June. Berries distinct, purple; ripe in August. 

 Branches opposite, glabrous or bristly, brown- 

 ish. Leaves 1 or 2 inches long, and 1 in. broad, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, cordate at the base. 



m 24. L. FLEXUO'SA Thunb. The flexible- 

 stemmed Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Thunb. in Lin. Trans., 2. p. 330., but not of 



Lodd., nor Ker ; Don's Mill., 3. p 449. 

 Syiwnymes. L. nlgra Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 89., but not of Lin. ; 



L. brachy'poda Dec. Prod. 4. p. 335. 



