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bound to bring and fetch pollen from the outstanding anthers 

 of one plant and deposit it upon the equally obtrusive stigma 

 of another. The flowers are succeeded by a cluster of round 

 crimson berries. Widely distributed in hedges, copses, and on 

 heaths. 



Perfoliate Honeysuckle (L. caprifoHum} is similar to the last, 

 but the upper pairs of leaves are joined together by their broad 

 bases. The corolla-tubes are longer than in the common 

 species, and it therefore becomes impossible for even the 

 longest-tongued bees to carry off much of the honey. Moths 

 with their long trunks can ; and consequently they swarm 

 upon it at night, and carry the pollen from plant to plant. 

 This species may be found in copses in Oxfordshire and Cam- 

 bridgeshire, but is believed to be only naturalized not a true 

 native. Flowers May and June. The name Lonicera was 

 bestowed by Linnaeus in honour of a German botanist named 

 Adam Lonicer. 



Dead Nettles (Lamium). 



Our forefathers, when giving English names to plants, found 

 it by no means easy work, and the greater number of our 

 native species they left unnamed altogether. Many of the 

 names they did invent were made to serve many times by 

 the simple expedient of prefixing adjectives. Thus, having 

 decided on Nettle as the distinctive name of certain stinging 

 herbs (Urtica), they made it available for the entirely unrelated 

 genus Lamium by calling the species Dead (or stingless) 

 nettles. In a similar fashion they made Hemp-nettle, and 

 Hedge-nettle. 



Apart from the resemblance in form of the leaves in certain 

 species, there is little likeness between Lamium and Urtica, 

 the large and graceful flowers of the former contrasting 

 strongly with the inconspicuous green blossoms of the stinging 



