CHAP. LXIH. 



CAPRIFOLIA CE1E. LON1 CEHvf. 



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wood, being extremely hard, makes teeth 

 for rakes, &c. Gmelin informs us that 

 the Russians make an cmpyreumatic oil 

 from the wood, which they recommend for 

 cold tumours and chronic pains. Animals 

 seldom touch the leaves. In hard weather 

 birds eat the berries, which are reputed 

 to be purgative and emetic. (Martyn's 

 Mill.) According to Pallas, an empyreu- 

 matic oil is prepared from the branches 

 when young ; and the wood, which is ex- 

 tremely hard, and yields only in beauty 

 to L. tatarica, is used for walking-sticks. 

 It is one of the oldest and hardiest inha- 

 bitants of British shrubberies, having been 

 in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden since 

 1683; but, certainly, it cannot be recom- 

 mended for its beauty, in a country pos- 

 sessing such an extensive ligneous flora as we have in Britain. In the 

 colder parts ofEurope, about Stockholm and Petersburg, for example, it 

 is valuable, because it endures the severest winters. In the English 

 garden, or rather park, at Munich, it is planted in masses and groups, along 

 with other masses and groups of C'ornus alba, Salix vitellina, and Fiburnum 

 (Xpulus ; and, in the winter time, the whitish-grey bark of its shoots con- 

 trasts finely with the red, yellow, or brown, bark of the other species. 

 Varieties. 



ft L. X. 2 leucocarpa Dec. Prod., iv. p. 335., N. Du Ham., i. p. 52., has 

 white berries. 



& L. X. 3 xanthocdrpa Dec., 1. c., N. Du Ham., 1. c., has the berries yellow. 



L. X. 4 melanocarpa Dec., 1. c., Bauh. Pin., p. 451., has black berries. 



* 22. L. FLEXUO'SA Thunb. The flexible-stemmed Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Thunb. in Lin. Trans., 2. p. 330., but not of Lodd., nor Ker ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 449. 



Syiwnymcs. L. nlgra Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 89., but not of Lin. ; L. brachypoda Dec. Prod., 4. p. 335. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Erect, branched. Branches very villous at the apex. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute, 

 on short petioles, glabrous ; petioles villous ; nerves of leaves puberulous. Flowers axillary, few, 

 almost sessile. Berries globose, glabrous. Stems flexuous. Leaves about an inch long ; upper 

 ones the smallest. Peduncles hardly a line long. Berries distinct, ovate, acuminated, black. (Don's 

 Mill., in. p. 449.) A shrub, growing to the height of from 4 ft. to 5ft., a native of Japan : which 

 was introduced in 1806, and flowers in June and July. 



a. Hardy Species of Lotiicera, belonging to the Diivsion Chamcccerasi of the 

 Section Xylosteum, not yet introduced. 



L. hispida Pall., Led. Fl. Ross.' Alt. 111., t. 212., is a native of Siberia, growing to the height of 2ft. 

 or 3 ft., with hispid branches, and pendulous greenish white flowers, which are succeeded by dark 

 purple berries. 



C. Berries ell her distinct or joined together. Corolla very gibbous at the Base. 

 Erect bushy Shrubs. Cuphantiue Dec. 



Derivation. From knphos, gibbous, and anthos, a flower ; in reference to the flower being gibbous 

 on one side at the base. 



j* 23. L. INVOLUCRA'TA Banks. The involucrated Honeysuckle. 



Identification. Banks Herb, ex Spreng. Syst., 1. p. 759. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 336. ; Don's Mill., 3. 



Si/nonymc. Xylosteum involucratum Richards, in Frank. First Journ., ed. 1., append, p. 6. 

 Engravings. Our Jigs. 817, 818, 819. 



. Char., Sfc. Erect. Branches acutely tetragonal. Leaves ovate or oval, 

 petiolate, membranous, beset with appressed hairs beneath. Peduncles 

 axillary, 2 3-flowered. Bracteas 4- ; two outer ovate, two inner broad, 

 obcordate, at length widening, clothed with glandular pubescence. Corolla 

 pubescent, gibbous at the base on the outside; yellowish, tinged with 

 red. Style exserted. (Don's MM., Hi. p. 449.) A shrub, 2 ft. to 3ft. 



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