190 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. (Plate C.) 



Lonicera sempervzrens. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Honeysuckle. Red, without,; Scentless, Mass, southward. May-October, 



yellow within. 



Flowers: axillary; clustered in spiked whorls. Calyx: five-toothed. Corolla: 

 trumpet-shaped; five-lobed Stamens: five. Pistil: one. Fruit: a round, 

 red berry. Leaves : opposite ; oval ; clasping at the base, the upper ones 

 united about the stem ; glossy; thick; nearly evergreen. A shrub ; climbing. 



This is one of the most unique of the family. The clasping 

 leaves seem to be a series of difficulties through which the blos- 

 soms have triumphantly passed. 



L. Japonica, Japanese honeysuckle, or woodbine, is the variety 

 that is most frequently chosen for cultivation. Its blossoms 

 are white, or yellow, and the tubular corolla is long, with pro- 

 truding stamens and style. 



Few flowers can vie with it in delightful fragrance, and this 

 has no doubt had much to do with the fondness that poets have 

 felt for it. The name woodbine alludes to the way it has of 

 entwining itself with some near object, " as though in wed- 

 lock." It gives freely as well as receives ; for the rock or 

 tree that gives it support is made by it a bower of beauty. In 

 climbing it turns from east to west, and for its home chooses 

 the quietude of the rocky woodlands. 



BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. 



Diervilla Diervilla. 



FAMILY COLOUR . ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Honeysuckle. Yellow, sometimes Fragrant. New England south- May, June, 



tinged with red. icard and westward. 



Flowers : axillarv ; growing in groups of threes at the summit of the stems. 

 Calyx-: small, with five very short teeth. Corolla: funnel-form; of five un- 

 equal, recurved lobes, the 'larger one having a rich nectar-bearing gland at the 

 base and being more highly coloured than the others. Stamens: five: pro- 

 truding. Pistil : one; style, long ; protruding. Leaves : opposite; on petioles ; 

 elliptical ; serrated ; smooth. A shrub two to four feet high ; with highly col- 

 oured bark. 



We may hardly flatter ourselves that the lower lobe of the co 



