LONICERA.] CAPRIFOLIACE^E. 191 



10-20 ft. Leaves 1-3 in., lower shortly petioled, upper sessile, glaucous 

 beneath. Bracts small. Calyx-teeth persistent. Corolla 1-lf in., glandular- 

 pubescent, dirty red outside, yellow within. Berries globose, crimson. 

 DISTRIB. W. Europe. 



L. CAPRIFO'LIUM, L. ; twining, upper leaves connate by very broad 



bases, flower-heads terminal sessile. 



Copses in Cambridge and Oxford; naturalized; fl. May-June. Glabrous. 

 Leaves glaucous beneath ; lower petioled, broadly ovate or oblong ; upper 

 oblong or triangular. Bracts leafy, very large, connate. Calyx-limb short, 

 persistent. Corolla as in L. Pericly'menum. Berries globose, scarlet. 

 DISTRIB. Mid. and S. Europe, W. Asia. 



L. XYLOS'TEUM, L. ; leaves petioled, flowers axillary in pairs. 

 Copses, Sussex, Hertfordshire, &c. ; naturalized; fl. May-June. Pubescent. 

 Stem suberect. Leaves 2-3 in., shortly petioled, ovate or obovate. Pedun- 

 cles shorter than the leaves, 2-fld. ; bracts 2, linear ; bracteoles minute. 

 Flowers sessile, ovaries connate. Calyx-limb deciduous. Corolla \ in., 

 pubescent, yellow. Berries small, crimson. DISTJXIB. Europe, N. Asia. 



5. LINN-ffi'A, Gronov. 



A very slender, creeping, evergreen shrub ; branches ascending, ending 

 in a slender, erect, 2-fld. peduncle. Leaves opposite, exstiptilate. Flowers 

 nodding, on slender 2-bracteolate pedicels, honeyed. Calyx-tube ovoid ; 

 lobes 5, narrow, deciduous. Corolla subcampanulate ; lobes 5, subequal. 

 Stamens 4, inserted near the base of the corolla, 2 longer than the others. 

 Disk obsolete. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate ; ovules 

 many in one- cell, solitary in the others, pendulous. Fruit subglobose, 

 3-celled, one cell 1-seeded, the others seedless. Seed oblong ; embryo 

 cylindric. DISTRIB. Lapland to N. Italy, cold and Arctic Asia und N. 

 America. ETYM. Linnseus. 



Ii. borea'lis, Gronov. ; leaves broadly ovate obtuse crenate. 

 Fir forests and plantations, York to Ross ; chiefly in Mid. and E. Scotland, 

 ascends to 2,400 ft. ; fl. July. Almost glabrous, except the glandular 

 inflorescence. Stems 3-16 in., filiform. Leaves in distant pairs, ^-f in., 

 petioled, rarely obovate or orbicular, coriaceous. Peduncles erect, filiform, 

 2-bracteate at the top. Corolla % in., pink, sweet-scented. Fruit very 

 small. Fruit very rare ; I have taken Wahlenberg's description of it. 



ORDER XXXVIII. RUBIA'CEJE. 



Tribe STELLA'T^E. 



Slender herbs, sometimes woody below ; steins 4 -angled. Leaves and 

 foliaceous stipules together forming whorls, entire. Flowers very small, in 

 axillary or terminal subsessile or peduncled cymes ; pedicels jointed with 

 the flower. Calyx-limb superior, annular or 4-6- toothed or 0. Corolla 



