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to 4 ft. Cultivated in 1822. Flowers deep red, scarlet, or crimson ; April 

 and jMay. Fruit V. 

 22. L. Xylo'steum L. The bony-wooded, or upright, Fly Honeysuckle. 



'vdenlification. t.in. Sp., 248. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 335. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 448. ,, , ,. 



{iunonym'S. faprilolium duraetbrum Lam. Fl. Fr. 3. p. 367. ; Xylosteum dumetorum Mccnch Meth. 

 1 n. .502. ; Gisilostlo, Hal. 

 'Engravmg!<. Eng. Bot., t. 916. ; FI. Gricc., t. 223. ; and omjig. 99.5. 



kpec. Char., c^c. Erect, downy. Leaves 

 ! ovate, acute, petiolate, soft. Peduncles 

 ' 2-flowered, shorter than the leaves. 

 ; Bracteas hairy, double ; the two outer 

 I ones lanceolate, spreading ; inner a small 

 j concave scale under each germ. Berries 

 * oval, distinct, 1-celled, 6-seeded. Flowers 



small, cream-coloured, downy. Calyx of 



5 obtuse lobes. Berries scarlet. ( Doiis 



Mill.) An upright shrub. Europe, to 



Caucasus, in thickets, hedges, and rocky 



places, and by the sides of woods. 



Height Sit. to 10 ft. Cultivated in 1596. 



Flowers cream-coloured ; July. Fruit 



scarlet ; ripe in September. Naked young 



wood greyish white. 



Varieties. 



at L. X. 2 leucocdrpum Dec, Prod, iv, 



p. 335. has white berries. 

 St L. X. 3 xanthocarpum Dec. 1. c. has the berries yellow. 

 ^L, X. "^ viclanocarpuni Dec. 1. c. has black berries. 



i Linnaeus says that it makes excellent hedges in a dry soil ; that the clear 

 parts between the joints of the shoots are used in Sweden for tobacco-pipes; 

 and that the wood, being extremely hard, makes teeth for rakes, &c., and yields 

 pnly in beauty to that of L. tatarica for walking-sticks. It is one of the oldest 

 land hardiest inhabitants of British shrubberies. In the English garden, or 

 'rather park, at Munich, it is planted in masses and groups, along with other 

 masses and groups of Cornus alba, .S'alix vitellina, and J^iburnum O'pulus ; 

 ind, in the winter time, the whitish-grey bark of its shoots contrasts finely 

 irt'ith the red, yellow, or brown, bark of the shrubs mentioned. 



9D5. L. Xjidsteura . 



j 23- L. Hi'spiDA Pall. The hispid Honeysuckle, 



Pall, ex "Willd. MSS. ; Led. Flor. Eoss. Alt. 

 Don's Mill., 3. p. 449. 

 Led. 1. c. ; and oxirjig. 99G. 



\ldentification. 

 ' 111., t. 212.; 

 Wngravings. 



'Spec. Char., S(c. Branches hispid. Leaves ovate, 

 j ciliated, petiolate, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 j Peduncles 2-fio\vered. Bracteas ovate-elli|)tic, 

 j exceeding the berries. (Don's Mill.) An up- 

 right shrub. Siberia, on the Altaian Moun- 

 tains. Height 2ft. to 3ft. Introduced?, 

 j Flowers greenish white, pendulous ; May and 

 June. Berries distinct, purple; ripe in August. 



Branches opposite, glabrous or bristly, brown- 

 sh. Leaves li or 2 inches long, and 1 in. broad, 

 jlabrous on both surfaces, cordate at the base. 



s 24. L. FLExuo'sA Thnnb. The flexible- 



stemmed Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Thunb. in Lin. Trans., 2. p. 330., but not of 

 I Lodd., nor Ker ; Don's Mill., 3. p 449. 

 Si/nonymef. L. nigra Thunb. Fl. Jiip. p. 89., but not of Lin. ; 

 ' J* brach Jpoda Dec. Prod. 4. p. 33.5. 



9=6. I hipida. 



