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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



creeping, throwing up suckers. (Dnnh 

 Mill.) A bushy shrub. Carolina, 

 New England, and Newfoundland, on 

 rocks and the highest mountains. Heijriit 

 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced m 1739. Flowers 

 yellow; Jane and July. Fruit brown ; 

 ripe in September. 



961. D. canadeasis. 



962. D. canadensis. 



There are a number of varieties of this species, differing in respect to the 

 size of the flowers and of the leaves, but they are not worth keeping distinct. 



Genus IV. 





LONFCER/1 Desf. The Lomcera, or Honeysuckle. Lin. Si/st. 



Pentandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Desf. FI. Atl., 1. p. 183. ; Dec. Prod , 4. p. 330. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 444. 

 Syniinymes. Lonlcera sp I.in., and many authors ; CaprifiMium and Xylosteuni Juss. Gen. p. 212.; 



Xylisteuin, t'aprifoUum, Clianiiccerasus, /'ericlymenum Tourn. Inst. t. 37S and 379. ; Caprifi)!ium 



and Jjf)nicer .Uopm. et Schult. Syst. ; Lomcera and Xylristeum Torrcy Fl. Un. St.; Chevre- 



feuille, Fr. ; Geissbliitt, Honeigblume, and Lonicere, Ger. 

 Derivation. Named after Adam I.onicer,a German, who was born in 1528, and died in 1558. There 



was another Lonicer, John, who wrote comments on Dioscorides. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tube 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, campanulate, or funnel- 

 shaped, with a 5-cieft, usually irregular, limb. Stamens 5. Style filiform. 

 Stigma capitate. Berries 3-celled. Seeds crustaceous. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, opposite, stipulate, deciduous, or evergreen ; sometimes 

 connate, entire, occasionally runcinate in tiie same species. Flowers ax- 

 illary, or capitate, variously disposed. Sjirubs. erect or twining; natives of 

 Europe, the North of Africa, Asia, and America. 



The greater number of the species and varieties are of easy culture in 

 British gardens, in common garden soil ; and they are all propagated by 

 cuttings, or some of them more readily by layers. The flowers of some ot 

 the species are highly fragrant and ornamental ; and that of the common 

 European honeysuckle is supposed to have given rise to one of the most 

 beautiful ornanient.s o'" Grecian architecture. *"' The honeysuckles ofter an ea.sy 

 opportunity of improvement, by intermixing the fragrant and more vigorous i 

 with the yellow and the scarlet." (Herb. Amaryll. p. 363.) The genus Lo- , 

 nicera of Linnasus was separated by Roenier and Schultes into the genera 

 Loniccrfl and C'aprifolium ; but they were reunited by DeCandolle, whose 

 arrangement has been followed by Sir W. J. Hooker and Cx. Don, and is 

 adopted by us on the present occasion. The distinctive characters ot the 

 sections are as follows: 



Caprifolium. Plants twining. Flowers in capitate whorls. 



Xylosteiim, Plants twining or erect. Flowers axillary. 



i. Qaprifblium Dec. 



Identification. Di-c. FI. Fr., 4. p. 270. ; Prod., 4. p. 331. 



Synonymcs. CaprifOlium Jiiss. Gen. 21i j Lonlcera Torr. Fl. Un. St. 1. p. 242.. but not of Schult. 



