CAPKIFOLIACE^ 397 



aa. Twining. 



L. Japbnica, Thunb. (L. Halliana of gardens). Fig. 495. Weak twiner, 

 with oblong or ovate entire nearly evergreen leaves: flowers small, on short 

 pedicels, fragrant, opening white or blush but changing to yellow. Japan; 

 much cultivated. 



L. Pericl^menum, Linn. Probably the commonest of the old-fashioned 

 climbing honeysuckles (from Old World) : strong and woody: leaves oblong- 

 ovate, not joined by their bases, entire, dark green above and pale beneath: 

 flowers large, reddish outside and yellow inside, very fragrant, in a dense, 

 long-stalked cluster. 



L. semp6rvirens, Ait. Trumpet or coral honeysuckle. Fig. 134. Gla- 

 brous twining shrub, with leaves evergreen, oblong, entire, glaucous, upper 

 pairs joined at base about the stem, appearing perfoliate: flowers nearly 

 sessile, in rather distant whorled clusters on terminal spikes, the corolla 

 trumpet-shape, tube almost regularly 5-lobed, lK-2 in. long, scarlet without, 

 yellowish within: stamens and style not much, if any projecting. Moist or 

 low ground, often cultivated. 



2. DIERVlLLA. Pu.^h Honeysuckle. 



Erect, low shrubs or bushes: leaves simple, opposite, ovate or oblong, 

 acute-pointed, serrate, deciduous: flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, or 

 solitary: calyx-tube slender, limb of 5 slender, persistent lobes: corolla 

 funnel-form, 5 lobes almost regular: stamens 5: ovary inferior, 2-celled, 

 1 filiform style: fruit slender 2-cened many-seeded pod, crowned with 

 calyx. 



D. trifida, Moench. Bushy shrub, 1-4 ft.: leaves oval to ovate, taper- 

 pointed, on short petioles: peduncles terminal or in upper axils, mostly :i- 

 flowered: corolla slender, tubular, greenish-yellow {honey color), not over 

 % in. long. Banks. Summer. 



D. h^brida, Hort. Weigela. Shrub, 2-8 ft.: leaves oval, acute coarsely 

 serrate, rather rough above and soft below, short-petioled: flowers funnel- 

 form, 1-1^ in. long: tube downy without: 5-lobed: the limb spreading. A 

 group of common garden shrubs, derived from two or more Japanese 

 species, with white, pink or red showy flowers. 



3. VIBURNUM. Akrowwood. 



Erect shrubs, with simple leaves and small whitish flowers in broad 

 cymes: stamens 5: stigmas 1-3: fruit a small 1-seeded drupe 



a. Flowers all alike in the cyme. 



V. Lentigo, Linn. Black haw. Sheepberrij. Fig. 279. Tall shrub 

 (to 20 ft.): leaves ovate-pointed, finely and sharply serrate, shining above, 

 on long margined petioles: fruit >^ in. or more long, black. Common. 



V. acerfdlium, Linn. Dockmackie. Arrowwood. Six ft. or less: leaves 

 3 lobed and maple-like, downy beneath: cyme small and slender-stalked : 

 fruit flat and small. Woods. 



