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CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



12. Lonicera Xylosteum L. Fly-Honey- 

 suckle. Fig. 3990. 



Lonicera Xylosteum L. Sp. PI. 174. 1753. 



A shrub, 3-7 high, the foliage densely ap- 

 pressed-pubescent when young. Leaves ovate, 

 oval, or obovate, entire, short-petioled, rather 

 pale green, obtuse, or the upper acute at the 

 apex, obtuse, subcordate or narrowed at the base, 

 glabrous above when mature, persistently pubes- 

 cent beneath, i'-3' long ; petioles 2 "-4" long ; 

 peduncles axillary, 2-flowered, 4"-8" long, about 

 as long as the flowers, or longer; flowers yellow- 

 ish white; bracts linear-subulate; berries scarlet. 



Escaped from cultivation, Rhode Island, New 

 York and New Jersey. Native of Europe and Asia. 

 May-June. 



13. Lonicera tatarica L. Tartarian 

 Bush-Honeysuckle. Fig. 3991. 



Lonicera tatarica L. Sp. PI. 173. 1753. 



A glabrous shrub, 5-io high. Leaves 

 ovate, rather thin, not conspicuously reticulate- 

 veined, I '-3' long, acute or obtusish at the apex, 

 cordate at the base, not ciliate ; flowers in 

 pairs on slender axillary peduncles; corolla 

 pink to white, j"-9>" long, the tube gibbous at 

 the base, the limb irregularly and deeply 

 5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped; peduncles i' long; 

 bracts linear, sometimes as long as the corolla- 

 tube; stamens and style scarcely exserted; 

 berries separate, red. 



Escaped from cultivation, Ontario, Maine and 

 Vermont to southern New York, New Jersey and 

 Kentucky. May. Native of Asia. Garden fly- 

 honeysuckle. 14. Lonicera mvolucrata (Richards.) 



Banks. Involucred Fly-Honeysuckle. 

 Fig. 3992. 



Xylosteum involucratum Richards. App. Frank. 



Journ. Ed. 2, 6. 1823. 

 Lonicera involucrata Banks ; Richards, loc. cit. 



1823. 

 Distegia involucrata Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 33 : 



152. 1906. 



A glabrate or pubescent shrub, 3-io high. 

 Leaves short-petioled, ovate, oval, or obovate, 

 2,'-6' long, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 narrowed or rounded at the base, more or less 

 pubescent, at least when young ; peduncles axil- 

 lary, i '-2' long, 2-3-flowered ; bracts foliaceous, 

 ovate or oval, often cordate; bractlets also 

 large, at length surrounding the fruit ; flowers 

 yellow; corolla pubescent, funnelform, the 

 limb nearly equally 5-lobed ; lobes short, little 

 spreading; stamens and style slightly exserted; 

 berries separate, globose, or oval, nearly black, 

 about 4" in diameter. 



In woodlands, New Brunswick and Quebec to western Ontario and Michigan, west to British 

 Columbia and Alaska, south to Arizona, Utah and California. June-July. 



