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the outside, and yellowish within; of a very agreeable odour. This, 

 which is commonly called the Dutch honeysuckle, may be trained 

 with stems, and formed into heads ; which the wild sort cannot, the 

 branclies being too weak and trailing for the purpose. 

 ? L. P. -t qjiercifdlium Ait. Hort. Kew., the Oak-leaved Honeysuckle, 

 has the leaves sinuated like those of an oak. Found wild in several 

 parts of England. There is a subvariety of this, with the leaves 

 slightly marked near the margin with yellow. The flowers are like 

 those of the species. 



All the varieties of the common honeysuckle are beautiful and fragrant ; 

 and, either trained against a wall, twining round a pole and over a parasol 

 top, or climbing and rambling among bushes, form great ornaments to gardens. 

 They are propagated by cuttings ; but a large proportion of these do not suc- 

 ceed, owing to the tubular shoots admitting the wet during winter, and rotting 

 the upper part of the cutting, that the more common mode of propagation is 

 by layers. Both layers and cuttings are made in the autumn, as soon as the 

 leaves have dropped ; and they become sufficiently rooted in one year. (See 

 Kncyc. of Gard., edit. 1835.) 



-i 2. L. Caprifo^lium L. The Goat's-leaf, or pale fcrfoVmie, Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 246. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 331. ; Don's Mill. ,3. p. 444. 



Synonijmes. Periciymenum perl'oliatum Ger. Emac. p. 891. ; Chevrefeuille des jardins, Fy. ; Durch- 



wachsene, Ger. ; Caprifolio, Xtal. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 799. ; and oar fig. 965. 



Spec. Char., S(c Leaves deciduous, obovate, 

 acutish, glaucous ; uppermost ones broader 

 and connate. Flowers ringent. terminal, dis- 

 posed in capitate whorls. Stems twining 

 from left to right. Buds acute, glaucous. 

 The lower leaves are distinct, and somewhat 

 stalked; two or three of the upper pairs united; 

 the uppermost of all forming a concave cup. 

 Flowers in one or more axillary whorls, the 

 uppermost whorl terminal ; with a central 

 bud, 6 in each whorl, highly fragrant, 2 in. 

 long, with a blush-coloured tube. Berries 

 each crowned by an almost entire calyx. 

 (Don's Alt//.) A deciduous twining shrub. 

 Middle and South Europe, even to the river 

 Tereck in Siberia, and on Mount Caucasus, 

 in woods, hedges, and thickets ; in England, 

 it has been occasionally found in similar 

 situations, in an apparently wild state Stem 

 15 ft. to 20 ft. Flowers blush-coloured ; 

 May and June. Fruit elliptical, tawny or orange-coloured ; ripe September 



J 3. L. (C.) ETRu'scA Santi. The Etruscan Honeysuckle. I 



Identification. Santi Viagg., 1. p. 113. t. 1. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 331. ; 



Don's Mill., 3. p. 444. 

 Synonymcs. L. ctrusca Hort. Fl. Austr. 1. p. 298. ; CaprSfbliiira 



etruscum ISa-m. et Srhvlt. Syst. 5. p. 261. ; Per'K\fmeVLnm Gouiui 



Hort. p. 101. ; Caprifilium italicum perfoli^tum praVox Tourn. 



Inst. p. 008. ; Tlie Italian Honeysuckle ; Mansorino, Ital. 

 Engravings. Santi Viagg., 1. p. 113. t. 1. ; and our 'ig. 966. 



Spec. C/iar., Sfc. Leaves deciduous, obovate, obtuse, 

 pubescent; lower ones on short petioles, upper ones 

 connately peribliate, acute, glabrous. Flowers dis- 

 posed in verticillate heads, with usually about tiiree 

 heads on the top of each branch ; glabrous. 

 (Doll's Mi//.) A deciduous twining shrub. South of 

 France, Sicily, Valais, Carniola, and Dalmatia, 

 on hills. Stem 15 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced ? 1700. 



965. I,. Caprilblium. 



