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CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 



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8. Lonicera Japonica Thunb. 



Japanese or Chinese Honeysuckle. 



(Fig. 3462.) 



Lon icera Japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. 89. 1784. 

 Pubescent, climbing high or trailing. 

 Leaves all short-petiolcd, ovate, entire, V- 

 3 / long, acute at the apex, rounded at the 

 base, dark green and glabrous above, pale 

 and usually sparingly pubescent beneath; 

 flowers in pairs from the upper axils, pe- 

 duncled, leafy-bracted at the base, white or 

 pink, fading to yellow, pubescent without, 

 the tube nearly i / long, longer than the 

 strongly 2-lipped limb; stamens and style 

 exserted; berries black, }/'-d/ f in diameter. 



Freely escaped from cultivation, southern 

 New York and Pennsylvania to North Caro- 

 lina and West Virginia. Naturalized from 

 eastern Asia. June-Aug. 



g. Lonicera coerulea L. Blue or 



Mountain Fly-Honeysuckle. 



(Fig. 3463.) 



Lonicera coerulea L- Sp. PI. 174. 1753- 



Erect, shrubby, i-3 high, the twigs some- 

 times slightly pubescent. Leaves oval or 

 obovate, i'-i%' long, very obtuse at the 

 apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, thick, 

 conspicuously reticulate- veined, pale and 

 more or less pubescent beneath, glabrous 

 above, at least when mature, ciliate on the 

 margins; flowers in pairs in the axils, short- 

 peduncled, subulate-bracted, yellow, 6 // -8 // 

 long, corolla pubescent, or glabrate, the tube 

 gibbous at the base, the limb nearly regular, 

 its lobes oblong, equalling or slightly exceed- 

 ing the tube; ovaries of the two flowers be- 

 coming united and forming an oblong or 

 nearly globose, bluish-black 2- eyed berry, 

 about lyi" in diameter. 



In low grounds, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Rhode Island, Pennsylvania.Wisconsin and 

 California. Also in Europe and Asia. June. 



10. Lonicera oblongifolia 



(Goldie) Hook. Swamp Fly- 

 Honeysuckle. (Fig. 3464.) 



Xylosteum oblongifolium Goldie, Kdinb. 



Phil. Journ. 6: 323. 1822. 

 Lonicera oblongifolia Hook. Fl. Bor. 



Am. 1: 284. pi. 100. 1833. 



Similar to the preceding species. 

 Leaves oval-oblong, \'-2' long, reticu- 

 late-veined, glabrous or nearly so on 

 both sides when mature, downy-pu- 

 bescent when young, not ciliate; flow- 

 ers in pairs on long slender peduncles; 

 corolla yellow, or purplish within, 8 // - 

 o/' long, gibbous at the base, deeply 

 2-lipped; bracts at the summit of the 

 peduncle minute or none; ovaries re- 

 maining distinct, or becoming more or 

 less united, the berries red or crimson. 



In swamps, Quebec to Manitoba, south 

 to Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania and 

 Michigan. May-June. 



