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AMKRICAN FORESTRY 



green and fast to the great masses of stems wildly run- 

 ning stems that bear them. I refer to the Japanese 

 Honeysuckle (Loniccra japonica). Next summer I will 

 give a beautiful photograph of this vine, but right here I 

 desire to show that it. too, bears black, shiny l>erries in the 

 fall ( most honey- 

 suckles bear red or 

 orange berries) ; 

 but see how differ- 

 ent these berries 

 are from the ones 

 borne on the Smi- 

 lax vine. They 

 have not the 

 *' bloom " upon 

 them, nor are they 

 borne upon the ex- 

 tremities of little 

 stemlets. This is 

 a good thing to 

 know ; and, as I 

 say, we will take 

 up this favorite 

 flower again, for it 

 is worthy of a 

 much fuller de- 

 scription, with a 

 few lines on its 

 place in the flower- 

 system in nature. 

 I must be in a 

 spring mood in 

 order to describe 

 honeysuckles, for 

 they stand among 

 the most beautiful 

 flowers that embel- 

 lish the roadsides 

 and woods at that 

 season. 



In some of the 

 old pastures in the 

 wintertime, when 

 the dead vegetation 

 is all covered with 

 the untrodden and 

 glistening snow, 

 one may see. in 

 scattered groups 

 and ranging in 

 height from a yard 

 to five or six feet, 

 such curious- 

 appearing growths 

 as the ones I show 



THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



: are called " Gypsy Combs " and a good nearly all in the same plane at their upper ends. Some 



T..,.. T X n /T S ' While thcy rea " y arc the ' h ' m] times this variet y is fou "d in full flower when it is no 

 :he wild or common Card Teazel more than a foot high, while I have seen specimens of it 

 They are given natural size in that had grown to be about four feet high. Scientifically, 



the figure; and were we to follow their stems down, it 

 would be seen that they branch in two and twos from a 

 common point on the main stem ; here, too, a pair of the 

 narrow, lancehead leaves are found. In the spring the 

 tiny purple or lilac flowers are densely packed in be- 

 tween these hard, 

 stiff-pointed struct- 

 ures that form the 

 cylindrical heads 

 shown in my pho- 

 t o g r a p h . This 

 Teazel represents 

 the Dipsacacece or 

 Teazel family, and 

 there are not many 

 representatives of 

 it in this country, 

 although three gen- 

 era have been 

 created to contain 

 them. 



There are 

 nearly sixty differ- 

 ent kinds of Gol- 

 denrod in the flora 

 of the United 

 States, all being 

 contained in the 

 genus Solidago. 

 The common 

 forms are well 

 known to any ob- 

 server of flowers 

 in nature. Next 

 summer I shall 

 touch upon the 

 most prominent 

 species of this 

 group, while in the 

 present article I. 

 show how a Gol- 

 denrod appears 

 when it goes to 

 seed in the au- 

 tumn ; there are 

 two species shown 

 in the cut. 



It will be no- 

 ticed that in the 

 one the locust is 

 resting upon, the 

 separate stems 

 bearing the flowers 

 do not run up into 

 a point, but are 





( Dipsacus sylvestris ) . 



