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spring sometimes more crowded or somewhat larger, and fine 

 medullary rays ; rather slender round or squarish twigs ; more or 

 less angled sometimes evanescent pith ; somewhat raised opposite 

 crescent-shaped or 3-angled leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces ; no 

 stipule-scars ; ovoid or conical sessile buds often superposed and 

 the lowermost then largest; simple entire short-stalked or sessile 

 moderate leaves ; perfect tubular moderate-sized sometimes very 

 fragrant flowers often in axillary pairs ; and berry-like fruit. 



1. Bushy. 2. 



Twining or trailing. 6. 



2. Pith continuous : no end-bud : flowering before leaves. 3. 

 Pith excavated. 4. 



3. Twigs retrorsely bristly. L. Standishii. 

 Twigs glabrate. L. fragrant'issima. 



4. Twigs glabrate. L. tatarica. 

 Twigs pubescent. 5. 



5. Lower surface of leaves short-pubescent. L. Xylosteum. 

 Leaves with rather long hairs beneath. L. Morrowii. 



6. Upper leaves joined in pairs. 7. 

 Leaves not united by their bases. 9. 



7. Corolla nearly regular, with short lobes : partly evergreen. 8. 

 Corolla deeply 2-lipped. L. Caprifolium. 



8. Flowers bright red. L. sempervirens. 

 Flowers bright yellow. L. sempervirens flava. 



9. Very glaucous. L. Periclymenum. 

 Little if at all glaucous. 10. 



10. Leaves not variegated, n. 



Leaves golden-veined. L. japonica aureo-reticulata. 



11. Flowering in summer. L. japonica. 

 Flowering in autumn. L. japonica Halliana. 



DIERVILLA. Bush Honeysuckle. 



Deciduous shrubs with rather stout twigs with 2 or 3 often 

 hairy longitudinal lines ; roundish homogeneous pale pith ; rather 

 low triangular leaf-scars, opposite or in whorls of 3, with 3- 

 bundle-traces and with transverse or decurrent lines from their 

 angles ; no stipule-scars ; oblong mostly appressed solitary sessile 



