HARPERS GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



American Fly Honeysuckle 



L. canadensis. — Color, pale greenish yellow. Leaves, thin, 

 downy beneath when young, on somewhat hairy, short petioles, 

 opposite, oblong or ovate, fringed around the margins. Calyx, 

 With very short teeth. Corolla, funnel-form, with a slight, spur- 

 like swelling at base, £ of an inch long, with 5 nearly equal lobes. 

 Stamens, 5. Fruit, not united, of 2 separate, bright red berries. 

 April to June. 



Erect, 3 to 5 inches high. In cold, moist woods from 

 Pennsylvania to Michigan, Wisconsin, and northward. 



Swamp Fly Honeysuckle 



L. oblongifolia. — Color, yellow, sometimes purplish within. 

 Corolla, deeply 2 -lipped. Flowers, in pairs, at the top of a long 

 peduncle, from the upper axils. Minute bracts under the pair of 

 flowers. Berries, quite separate, or slightly united at base, red 

 or crimson. Leaves, 1 to 2 inches long, opposite, oblong or lance- 

 shape, downy at least when young. May and June. 



Swamps, especially in larch and arbor- vitse woods, from 

 Maine to western New York. 



The Tartarian honeysuckle (L. tartarica), so well known 

 in our gardens, may be found escaped from cultivation and 

 growing wild on sheltered banks from Maine to New Jersey 

 and westward. 



Hairy Honeysuckle. Rough Woodbine 



L. hirsuta (this and the two following species are woody, climb- 

 ing vines). — Color, orange yellow. Calyx-tube with 5 small teeth. 

 Corolla, clammy from minute glands on the outside; a tube more 

 than I inch long, with the lower lip narrow, and covering the other 

 in bud; the upper divided into 4 roundish lobes. Stamens, 5, 

 protruding. Stigma, round, green, terminating a long style. 

 Berries, bright orange, with the calyx - teeth left upon them. 

 Flowers, sessile, in whorls of about 6, from the upper leaf-axils, 

 forming an interrupted leafy spike. Leaves, dull green, large, 

 broadly lance - shape or oval, rounded at base, hairy along the 

 margins and midribs, the upper pair completely united, the 

 others on short, winged petioles. June and July. 



A hardy climber, in woods, around rocks, reaching a length 

 of 20 to 30 feet. Branches are reddish. Leaves large and 

 coarse, and stems softly hairy. Vermont to Michigan, south 

 to Pennsylvania. 



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