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outside, yellowish within : a cultivated and less showy variety has pale yellow 

 blossoms. 



* * Corolla ringent : the lower lip narrow, the upper broad and 4-lobed. 



2. L.. grr&ta, -Aik (AMERICAN WOODBINE.) Leaves smooth, glaucous 

 beneath, obovate, the 2 or 3 upper pairs united; flowers whorl ed in the axils of 

 the uppermost leaves or leaf-like connate bracts ; corolla smooth (ivhitish with a 

 purple tube, fading yellowish), not gihbous at the base, fragrant. Rocky wood 

 lands. New York, Penn., and westward: also cultivated. May. 



3. L.. fliiva, Sims. (YELLOW HONEYSUCKLE.) Leaves smooth, vety jmle 

 and glaucous botli sides, thickish, obovate or oval, the 2-4 upper pairs united into 

 a round cup-like disk ; flowers in closely approximate whorls ; tube of the 

 smooth (light yellow) corolla slender, somewhat gibbous ; filaments almost or 

 quite smooth. Rocky banks. Catskill Mountains (Pursh\ Ohio to Wisconsin 

 (a variety with rather short flowers), and southward along the Alleghany 

 Mountains. June. 



4. Li. piarvi flora, Lam. (SMALL HONEYSUCKLE.) Leaves smooth, ob- 

 \3$g,ffreen above, very glaucous beneath, the upper pairs united, all closely sessile; 

 flowers in 2 or 3 closely approximate whorls raised on a peduncle ; corolla gib- 

 bous at the base, smooth outside (greenish-yelloiv tinged with dull purple), short (f 

 long) ; filaments rather hairy below. Rocky banks, mostly northward. May, 

 June. Stem commonly bushy, only 2 -4 high. 



Var. DoilgScisii. Leaves greener, more or less downy underneath when 

 young; corolla crimson or deep dull purple. (L. Douglasii, DC.) Ohio to 

 Wisconsin northward. 



5. L.. Ilirsilta, Eaton. (HAIRY HONEYSUCKLE.) Leaves not glaucous, 

 downy-hairy beneath, as well as the branches, and slightly so above, veiny, dull, 

 broadly oval; the uppermost united, the lower short-petioled ; flowers in ap- 

 proximate whorls ; tube of the (orange-yellow) clammy-pubescent corolla gibbous at 

 the base, slender. Damp copses and rocks, Maine to Wisconsin northward. 

 July. A coarse, large-leaved species. 



$ 2. XYL6STEON, Juss. Upright bushy shrubs : leaves all distinct at tJie base : 

 peduncles axillary, single, 2-bracted and ^-flowered at the summit ; the tico beriie* 

 sometimes united into one : calyx-teeth not persistent. 



6. L. cili;\ta, Muhl. (FLY-HONEYSUCKLE.) Branches straggling (3 

 5 high); leaves oblong-ovate, often heart-shaped, petioled, thin, downy beneath; 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves ; bracts minute ; corolla funnel-form, gibbous at 

 the base (greenish-yellow, f ' long), the lobes almost equal ; berries separate 

 (red). Rocky woods; New England to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, north- 

 ward. May. 



7. JL.. caerulca, L. (MOUNTAIN FLY-HONEYSUCKLE.) Low (l-2 

 high); branches upright; leaves oval, downy when young; peduncles very short', 

 bracts awl-shaped, longer than the ovaries of the tico flowers, which are united into one 

 (blue) berry. (Xylosteum villqsum, Michx.) Mountain woods and bogs, Mas 

 sachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and northward : also Wisconsin May 

 Flowers yellowish, smaller than in No. 8. (Eu.) 



