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the maritime plant, smaller and greenish. Berries nearly globular, red, deep, 

 bitter and nauseous, accompanied by permanent bracteas. (Dons Mil/., 

 iii. p. 445.) A twining shrub, which always turns from east to west ; native 

 of Europe, common in hedges, groves, and thickets; plentiful in Britain. 

 Flowering in June and July ; and, in moist summers, also in August, and 

 sometimes in September. In gardens, by pruning and watering, the plants 

 may be kept flowering all the summer. 



Varieties. 



J L. P. 2 serotinum Ait. ^_ 797 



Hort. Kew., i. p. 

 378., Hort. Angl., 

 14. No. 4. t. 7., 

 Mill. Icon., t. 79., 

 Riv. Mon. Irr., t. 

 122.; Periclyme- 

 num ermanicum 



Schmidt Baum., 

 t. 108. ; and our 

 fig. 797. Branches glabrous. Flowers late, reddish. (Don's Mill., 

 ii. p. 445.) This, the late red honeysuckle, produces a greater num- 

 ber of flowers together than either the Italian or Dutch honeysuckle, 

 so that it makes a finer appearance than either of them during its 

 period of flowering. It has not been so long an inhabitant of our 

 gardens as the Dutch honeysuckle; for, about the year 1715, it was 

 considered a great curiosity; when it was called the Flemish honey- 

 suckle, and was, probably, brought over by the Flemish florists, who, 

 about that time, came to England annually with flowers and plants 

 for sale. (Marty n's Mill.) 



JiL. P. 3 belgicum ; Periclymenum germanicum Mill. Diet., No. 4., Hort. 

 Aug., 15. No. 5. t. 6. Branches smooth, purplish. Leaves oblong- 

 oval, of a lucid green above, but pale beneath, on long petioles. 

 Flowers in terminal verticillate heads ; each flower arising out of a 

 scaly cover, reddish on the outside, and yellowish within ; of a very 

 agreeable odour. This, which is commonly called the Dutch honey- 

 suckle, may be trained with stems, and formed into heads ; which the 

 wild sort cannot, the branches being too weak and trailing for the 

 purpose. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 445.) 



J L. P. 4 quercifolium Ait. Hort. Kew. has the leaves sinuated like those 

 of an oak. This variety is to be found in England, in a wood near 

 Kimberly, Norfolk; and near Oxford. There is a subvariety of 

 this, with the leaves slightly marked near the margin with yellow. 

 The flowers are like those of the species. It is called the oak-leaved 

 honeysuckle. 



History, Culture, Uses, fyc. The earlier writers attribute virtues to this shrub 

 which are now entirely given up : but the beauty and exquisite fragrance of 

 the flowers make it a favourite plant in gardens and shrubberies. " This," 

 Sir J. E. Smith observes, " is the true woodbine of poets, though it is like- 

 wise the twisted eglantine of Milton, in the well-known lines, 



'Through the sweet briar, or the vine, 

 Or the twisted eglantine ,' " 



Shakspeare is, however, guiltless of this blunder. He says, 



" So doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle, 

 Gently entwiat the maple : " 



and, in Much ado about Nothing, uses both names indiscriminately for the 

 bower in which Beatrice lies concealed, 



" Couch'cl in the woodbine coverture ; " 



