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HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY (Caprifoliaceae). 



A family composed of shrubs, vines or herbs with 

 opposite leaves and perfect, usually regular flowers of 

 a funnel-form. 



FLY HONEYSUCKLE (Lonicera canadensis) is a 

 bush or shrub with thin, straggling, brown branches, 

 attaining heights of 2 to 4 feet. The leaves are thin, 

 light green, somewhat heart-shaped and short stem- 

 ed. They grow oppositely on the branches and have 

 small stipules between them. The flowers are borne 

 in pairs from the axils of the terminal leaves. The 

 Naples yellow tubes are about three fourths of an 

 inch in length and have five lobes. The pairs of 

 blossoms are joined to the slender peduncles with 

 exceedingly short stems. After the flowering sea- 

 son, two bright red berries, with their bases touch- 

 ing but not united, take the places of the pairs of 

 flowers. This species is common from Quebec to 

 Manitoba and south to Pa. and Mich. 



A similar species, the Mountain Fly Honeysuckle 

 (L. caerulea) has the pairs of flowers almost united 

 at their bases and the berries united into a single 

 one with two "eyes." This is also common in low 

 woods in the same range. 



TWINFLOWER (Linnaea borealis americana) is 

 one of the most delicately beautiful of our wild 

 flowers. The stem is slender, trailing, reddish-brown 

 and from 6 to 24 inches long; at intervals very slen- 

 der, leafy flower stalks rise, bearing at the end, two 

 pendulous, bell-shaped, white, fragrant blossoms; the 

 corolla, which has five lobes, is crimson pink within. 

 The evergreen leaves are short-stemmed, almost 

 round and scallop-toothed. It was a favorite plant 

 with Linnaeus and is named after him. It is also 

 highly prized by all who reside in, or visit, the sec- 

 tions it frequents. It blooms in July and August in 

 cool mossy woods from Lab. to Minn, and south to 

 Pa. in the mountains. 



