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white and roseate, and their odor may be perceived 

 at a great distance ; this being the most powerfully 

 fragrant of our Honeysuckles. For cultivation this 

 will rank next in beauty to the Yellow Honeysuckle. 

 I-^TK^ 2. Clammy Honeysuckle. (A. viscosa, Linn.) 

 ^^ — Very common through the State, 2 to 6 or 8 feet 

 high, the branchlets bristly, and the flowers covered 

 with clammy hairs. The flowers are white or flesh- 

 colored and very fragrant. In this and No. 1 the 

 flowers appear after the leaves have expanded. In 

 the next two species they appear before or with the 

 leaves. 



A variety of this (var : glauca) occurs with paler 

 and rougher leaves, their underside covered with a 

 white bloom. 

 p-r "^^ 3. Purple Honeysuckle. (A. nudiflora, Linn.) 

 V — Very common in great varieties of soil through 

 the State, 2 to 6 feet high, but usually very small in 

 poor dry soils. The flowers vary from a flesh-color 

 to pink or purple, and are sometimes quite white. 

 They are destitute of fragrance. 

 ^ 4. Yellow Honeysuckle. (A. calendulacea, 

 Michx.) — This is found only at a considerable eleva- 

 tion on our mountains, where it is abundant and 

 well known by the name here given. It is com- 

 monly from 3 to 6 feet high, and varies very much in 

 the color of its flowers, but most frequently they are 

 some shade of yellow. Bartram, in his " Travels," 

 calls this the Fieri/ Azalea, and says : " This epithet 

 Fieri/ I annex to this most celebrated species of 



