HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Caprifoliaccae. 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Caprifolioceoe. 



Not a large family, mostly of the northern hemisphere; 

 herbs, shrubs, shrubby vines or trees; leaves opposite, 

 usually without stipules; flowers perfect, regular or irregu- 

 lar; calyx with three to five divisions; corolla usually with 

 five united lobes, sometimes two-lipped; stamens on the 

 corolla tube, usually as many as its lobes and alternate 

 with them; ovary inferior, with one style; fruit a berry, 

 stone-fruit, or capsule. 



There are many kinds of Lonicera, shrubs, or twining 

 woody vines; leaves usually without teeth or lobes, the 

 upper ones sometimes united around the stem; flowers 

 usually irregular; calyx with five, minute teeth; corolla 

 more or less funnel-shaped, often two-lipped, four lobes 

 forming the upper lip and one lobe the under, tube often 

 swollen at base; stamens five; style with a cap-like stigma; 

 fruic berry like. 



A climbing or trailing shrub, with 



brilliant flowers > set off b y bri s ht g reen 



Lonicera tilibsa leaves, thin in texture, with pale "bloom" 

 Orange and on the under side and usually hairy 



scarlet margins, the lower ones with short leaf- 



Summer stalk the usually united and 



Northwest ... . 



forming a disk. The flowers are scentless 



about an inch and a quarter long, with smooth, trumpet- 

 shaped corollas, bright orange at base, shading to scarlet 

 above, with a bright green stigma and crimson or brownish 

 anthers. This lives in the woods and sometimes climbs to 

 the tops of quite tall trees, ornamenting them with it? 

 splendid clusters of flowers and sprinkling the forest floor 

 with its fallen blossoms in a shower of scarlet and gold. 



A bush, from three to seven feet high 

 Black Twinberry . . 



Lonictra wlth tmck > woody, pale gray stems anc 



involucrtita bright green leaves, glossy and thin in 



Yellow texture, or rather coarse and hairy, with 



West* SUmmer fine hairs alon S the margins. The flower- 

 stalks each bear a pair of flowers, withou 

 scent, emerging from an involucre cf two bracts. The 

 corolla is rather hairy and sticky, half an inch or more 

 long, a pretty shade of warm dull yellow, sometim 





