298 CAPRIFOLIACEiE. Lonicera. 



Leaves 1 J - 3 inches long, very smooth above, glaucous and often with a minute and soft 

 whitish caducous pubescence underneath, obtuse or with a blunt mucronate point. Flowers 

 8-12, in a subsessile or somewhat pedunculate head, or sometimes in 2 - 3 verticillate 

 clusters, fragrant. Corolla bright yellow, an inch or more long ; the tube much longer than 

 the ventricose limb, very slightly dilated near the base, but not gibbous ; the lower lip narrowly 

 oblong ; the upper 4-lobed. Stamens exserted. Torr. <^ Gr. 



On the Catskill Mountains {Pursh). I have never seen specimens of this plant collected 

 within the limits of New-York. 



4. Lonicera hirsuta, Eaton. Hairy Honeysuckle. 



Stem twining, the younger branches pubescent ; leaves broadly oval, somewhat hairy above, 

 softly villous underneath, ciliate , the upper one or two pairs connate-perfoliate, often nearly 

 smooth ; the lower ones sessile or petioled ; peduncles mostly three together ; the flowers in 

 approximate capitate whorls ; tube of the corolla viscid-pubescent, rather slender, slightly 

 gibbous at the base. — Eaton, man. hot. ed. 3. p. 341 ; Torr. Jl. 1. p. 242 ; Bigel. fi. Best, 

 p. 88; Hooli. hot. mag. t. 3163, and fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 282; Beck, hot. p. 158; Torr. <^- 

 Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 6. L. villosa, Muhl. cat. p. 22, not of DC. L. pubescens, Sweet, hart. 

 Brit. p. 194; DC. prodr. 4. p. 332. L. Goldii, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 758. Caprifolium 

 pubescens, Goldie in Edinh. p)hil. journ. (1822), 6. p. 323; Hook. exot.Jl. t. 27. 



Stem 15-30 feet long. Leaves pale green and dull, 3-4 inches long and 2 — 3 broad, 

 rather acute, or with a short abrupt acumination ; the veins very conspicuous ; the upper 

 surface more or less pubescent when young, nearly smooth when old : the upper connate 

 leaves nearly smooth on both sides. Peduncles, and often also the ovaries, glandularly 

 pubescent. Flowers numerous, about an inch and a quarter long, sulphur-yellow. Corolla 

 hairy inside ; the limb large, and conspicuously ringent. Style and stamens exserted. Berries 

 orange, glandularly pubescent, 3 - 5-seeded. 



Rocky banks and damp thickets ; northern and western parts of the State ; also near Troy 

 {Eaton). June - July, 



5. Lonicera parviflora, Lam. Bvmll-jlowered Honeysuckle. 



Leaves elliptical or oblong, smooth, very glaucous underneath, with a slight often undulate 

 cartilaginous border, the upper pair connate-perfoliate, the others sessile and mostly somewhat 

 connate ; flowers in a more or less pedunculate head of 2 - 3 closely approximated whorls ; 

 corolla short, smooth externally, gibbous at the base. — ham. diet. 1. p. 728; Torr. jl. 1. 

 ■p. 245; Bigel.fl. Bost.p. 87; DC. prodr. 4. p. 332; Hook. Jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 282; Beck, 

 hot. p. 158; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 158; Torr. ^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 7. L. dioica, Linn, 

 sijst. (ed. 13.) p. 181 ; Ait. Kew. (ed. 1.) \. p. 130 ; Bot. reg. 1. 138. Caprifolium glaucum, 

 Mmnch. mclli. p. 505. C. bracteosum, Miclix. fl. 1. p. 105. C. parviflorum, Pursh, fl. 1, 

 ^j. 161. C. dioicum, Ream. <^- Schult. syst. 5. p. 260. 



