Vol. III.] 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



ii. Lonicera ciliata Muhl. American Fly Honeysuckle. 



Vaccinium album L. Sp. PI. 350. 1753. Not 



L. alba L. 

 Lonicera ciliata Muhl. Cat. 23. 1813. 



Shrubby, 3-5 liigb, the twigs glabrous. 

 Petioles 2 // ~3 // long, very slender; leaves 

 thin, bright green on both sides, ovate, or 

 sometimes oval, acute or acutish at the apex, 

 rounded or cordate at the base, villous-pu- 

 bescent beneath when young, glabrous or 

 nearly so when mature, but the margins 

 strongly ciliate; flowers in pairs from the 

 axils, about 8" long; peduncles long-filiform; 

 bracts very small, subulate; corolla-limb 

 nearly regular, its lobes short; berries sepa- 

 rate, ovoid, light red, about 3" in diameter. 



In moist woods, Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 

 wick to Manitoba, south to Connecticut, Penn- 

 sylvania and Michigan. Ascends to 2000 ft. in 

 the Catskills. May. 



12. 



Lonicera Xylosteum L. Fly 



Honeysuckle. (Fig. 3466.) 



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



A shrub, 3-7 high, the foliage densely ap- 

 pressed-pubescent when young. Leaves ovate, 

 oval, or obovate, entire, short-petioled, rather 

 pale green, obtuse, or the upper acute at the 

 apex, obtuse, subcordate or narrowed at the 

 base, glabrous above when mature, persistently 

 pubescent beneath, i'-tJ long; petioles 2 // -4 // 

 long; peduncles axillary, 2-flowered, 4 // -8 // 

 long, about as long as the flowers, or longer; 

 flowers yellowish white; bracts linear-subulate; 

 berries scarlet. 



Escaped from cultivation in New York, 

 tive of Europe and Asia. May-June. 



Na- 



13. Lonicera Tatarica L. 



Tartarian Bush-Honeysuckle. 

 (Fig. 3467.) 



Lonicera Tatarica L- Sp. PI. 173. 1753. 



A glabrous shrub, 5-io high. Leaves 

 ovate, rather thin, not conspicuously retic- 

 ulate-veined, I'-if long, acute or obtusish at 

 the apex, cordate at the base, not ciliate; 

 flowers in pairs on slender axillary pedun- 

 cles; corolla pink to white, 7 // -S // long.the 

 tube gibbous at the base, the limb irregu- 

 larly and deeply 5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped; 

 peduncles 1/ long; bracts linear, sometimes 

 as long as the corolla-tube; stamens and style 

 scarcely exserted; berries separate, red. 



Escaped from cultivation, Ontario and Ver- 

 mont to ^southern New York, New Jersey and 

 Kentucky. May. Native of Asia. 



