i88 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



drought, when the earth was almost cracking for want of rain, 

 they were noticed to be the only flowers on a sterile, rocky 

 hillside that were not languishing. 



HOBBLE-BUSH. AMERICAN WAYFARING-TREE. 



(Plate XCSX.) 



Vibiirnum aim ' folium, 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Honeysuckle. White. Scentless. New England to North May. 



Carolina. 



The blossoms of this large shrub are similar to those of V. 

 Opulus, page 118, and very like those of the garden hydrangea. 

 The neutral flowers with large flat corollas are arranged about 

 the fertile ones within the centre. The bright scarlet fruit is 

 not edible. 



The leaves are orbicular, pointed and heart-shaped at the 

 base, serrated ; pinnately-veined, and covered with a rough, 

 reddish scurf. 



The name wayfaring-tree is appropriate, as it is very wan- 

 dering in its manner of growth, the outstretched branches 

 often forming loops and rooting themselves in the ground. In 

 the cold, moist woods of the north the tree is well known. 



FLY-HONEYSUCKLE. 



Lonicera ciliata. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Honeysuckle. Greenish yelloiv. Scentless. North and -westward May. 



to Minnesota. 



Flowers : growing in pairs on slender peduncles from the axils of the leaves. 

 Calyx: of five short teeth. Corolla: funnel-form; five-lobed ; spurred at the 

 base. Stamens: five. Pistil: one. Friiit : a red, egg-shaped berry. Leaves: 

 on petioles; ovate; sometimes heart-shaped at the base, the margins slightly 

 fringed with hairs. A shrub ; branching, with bark of a dull grey colour. 



Evidently the fly-honeysuckle has not been brought up on 

 the old adage that blood is thicker than water ; as it has reck- 

 lessly cast off its family resemblance. The regularity of the 

 corolla and its wide mouth are quite different from the slender, 

 tubular, two-lipped forms of the cultivated species to which it 

 is nearly allied. It has, moreover, a very pert and saucy look 

 and flourishes best in the rocky woods of the north. 



