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HONEYSUCKLE, OR WOODBINE. LONI- 

 CERA PERICLYMENUJVL 



Natural order, Aggregate. Caprifolia, Juss. 

 A germs of the Pentandria Monogynia class. 



Copious of flowers, the woodbine, pale and wan, 

 But well compensating her sickly looks 

 With never cloying odours, early and late." 



" Or the woodbine wild, 



That loves to hang, on barren boughs remote? 

 Her wreaths of flowery perfume/' 



MASON. 



THE Greeks named this vine 

 and the modern Greeks call it* Ut^rXoKotc. It 

 received the generic name of Lonicera, as a 

 compliment from Plumier to Adam Lonicer, 

 a physician at Frankfort. We name it Wood- 

 bine, because it winds itself as it were in wed- 

 lock to every tree and shrub in its neighbour- 

 hood, which it graces by its well attired 



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