164 HONEYSUCKLE 



(Fig. 78). The buds are usually single, but may be several 

 together, one above the other in each axil, the lowermost 

 dominant, the apex of the shoot is usually aborted and has 

 a pair of buds on the flanks. Scales keeled, long-pointed, 

 brown and smooth. The twdning shoots are pubescent, pale 

 grey or tawny, and often with a bluish bloom near the tip. 



The bud-scales are fairly numerous, and their sharp 

 keels give the bud a distinct 4-angular section. The 

 emerging leaves often red-violet. Twigs yellowish broAvn 

 or leather- tawny, round, passing to grey-brown branches 

 with torn and fibrous cortex. Interuodes hollow : nodes 

 solid. 



The main axis of L. Periclymenum usually ends in a 

 dead piece. The first bud-scales stand right and left of 

 the axis, and are fused at their bases : this basal fusion 

 is even more pronounced in the case of the opposite and 

 decussate leaves which follow. The scales are narrow, 

 triangular, acuminate, reduced leaves : about 4 5 pairs 

 show^ outside, followed by about 4 further pairs of leaves 

 inside, all decussate and fused below, and as the bud 

 opens early the number of leaves appears large. 



The closely allied L. Caprifolium (Fig. 79) has smaller 

 buds, and different upper leaves, and the leaf-scars meet 

 round the apex of the twig. 



(ii) Plant neither climbing nor armed : twigs 

 erect and stiff. 



{a) Buds naked; i.e. not covered hy true 

 scales, hut exposing the ordinary leaves 

 in their folded state. Buds relatively 

 long and narrow, showing tivo opposite, 

 erect, jjlicate leaves, the tiuo minute hud- 

 scales at the hase heing caducous; covered, 

 like the shoot-tips, ivith mealy grey stellate 

 hairs. 



