212 HONEYSUCKLE FA^NULY. 



oblong leaves, 3'-5' long, on short petioles, clammy flowers, and berries 

 quite separate. 



* * The 2 or 4 bracts under the ovaries small or minute, sometimes 



caducous. 



-t- Flowers appearing before the leaves. 



L. fragrantissima, Lindl. Branches smooth ; flowers white or tinted, 

 sessile at the noiles;, sirougly 2-Upped, very fragrant; leaves thickish and 

 veiny, sliort-obovate, witli cusp at tip, smooth. China. Foliage ever- 

 green in favoral)le localities. 



L. Standishii, Hook. Much like the last, but branches retrorsely hairy, 

 and leaves ovate-lanceolate and ciliate and more deciduous. China. 



-<- H- Flowers appearing with or after the leaves. 



■*-*■ Flowers nearly sessile. 



L. cserillea, Linn. Leaves oval, downy when young-; eornlla 5-lobed, 

 yellowish ; bracts awl-like, Ignger tlian the united ovaries ; double berry 

 blue. Cold woods and bogs N. ; also cult. 



-M- -w- Flowers conspicuously peduncled. " 



L. Tatdrica, Linn. Tahtahian ll. Strong growing tall .slirub, now 

 commonly planted from Asia; leaves cordate-oval, obtuse or acute, with 

 chaste whitish or bluish-red flowers in profusion, followed by united reil 

 berries. 



L. ciliata, Muhl. Straggling, 3°-5° high ; oval or oblong and partly 

 heart-shaped leaves, thin and downy beneath when young, and ciliate 

 on the edge ; honey-yellow corolla Q' long), with short, nearly equal 

 lobes and very unequal-sided base ; berries red, separate ; flowers early 

 spring. N. 



L. oblongifdlia, Mulil. Upright, 2°-5° high ; leaves oblong ; pedun- 

 cles long and slender; corolla deeply 2-lipped (i' long) in early summer ; 

 bracts minute or deciduous ; berries united, red or purple. Swamps, N. 



§ 2. Time IIoneysucklks, rcith twining stems {in one wild species 

 only sligldly so). 



* Corolla with vtry long tulMi and 5 short, almost regular lobes. 

 L. sempervirens, Ait. Trumpet H. Wild from N. Y., S., and 

 commonly cult. Leaves evergreen (as the name denotes) only at the S., 

 thickish, pale beneath, the lower oblong, the uppermost pairs united 

 round the stem ; flowers scentless, in spiked whorls 2' long, scarlet with 

 yellow inside (also a yellow variety), produced all summer; berries red. 



* * Corolla, strongl'i 'l-Ujiped; lower lip narrow, upper one broad and 



■i-lobed. 

 ■1- The 1 to 4 uppermost pairs of leaves united round the stem in the form 



of an oval or rounded disk or shallow cup, the flowers sessile in their 



axils, or partly in leafless spiked ichorls beyond (Lessons, Fig. 163); 



berries red or orangp. 



*+ Corolla long (1' or mure), glabrous u)ithin. 



L. gr^ta. Ait. American Woopbine. Leaves .smooth, glaucous 

 beneath, obovate, the 2 or 3 upper pairs united ; flowers white, with a 

 pink or purple slender tube, fading to yellowish, fragrant, the corolla not 

 gibbous at the base, wluuled in the uj)per axils. \. J. to Mich., S. and W. ; 

 also cult. 



L. Caprifblium, Linn. Leaves obovate, obtuse or slightly acute, very 

 glaucous, uppermost 2 or 8 pairs connate ; flowers yellow with a bluish, 

 very slender, not gibbous tube, in capitate whorls. Cult, from Eu. ; flowers 

 only in earlv summer. 



