428 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



bb. Fruit a linear-oblong capsule, 2-valved, many-seeded: 



leaf -margin serrate 2. Diervilla 



aa. Corolla shallow, usually rotate. 



b. Leaves simple 3. Viburnum 



bb. Leaves pinnately compound 4. Sambucus 



1. LONICERA. Honeysuckle. 



Erect or twining shrubs, with tubular, funnelform, more or less irregular 

 flowers (often 2-lipped); corolla bulging oh one side near the base; stamens 

 5: fruit a berry, usually 2 together from 2 contiguous flowers. 



a. Erect. 



L. canadensis, Marsh. Open, smooth bush, 3-5 ft.: leaves cordate- 

 oblong, not sharp-pointed, entire: flowers less than 1 in. long, soft yellow, 

 the lobes nearly equal: berries red. Common in woods. Blooms in very 

 early spring. 



L. tatarica, Linn. Tartarian honeysuckle. Tall shrub (to 12 ft.): 

 leaves cordate-oval, not long-pointed, entire: flowers pink or red (some- 

 times nearly white), 2-lipped, all the lobes oblong. Asia, but common 

 in yards. Spring. 



aa. Twining. 



L. japonica, Thunb. (L. Halliana of gardens). Fig. 554. 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. Periclymenum, 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, 

 i long-stalked cluster. 



L. sempervirens, Ait. 

 jt'if^f / Trumpet or coral honey- 



suckle. Fig. 148. Glabrous 

 twining shrub, with leaves 

 evergreen, oblong, entire, 

 glaucous, upper pairs joined 

 at base about the stem, 

 appearing perfoliate: flowers 

 nearly sessile, in rather 

 Lonicera Japonioa. f^ distant whorled clusters on 



terminal spikes, the corolla 

 trumpet-shape, tube almost regularly 5-lobed, 1^-2 in. long, scarlet without, 

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

 low ground, often cultivated. 



