CLASS V. ORDER I. gj 



inches long, recurved, blunt, and of a fleshy appearance. On 

 cutting them across, they are found to consist of two empty par- 

 allel tubes. The stem rises out of water, bearing a few remote 

 pendulous flowers of a pale blue color. Segments of the calyx 

 acute, persistent. Tube of the corolla prismatic, its segments 

 lanceolate. Capsule partly superior and inferior, tipt with the 

 style, two celled. Seeds numerous, ovate, compressed, black. 

 The whole plant gives out a milky juice on being broken. — 

 Found in Fresh Pond. — July. 



99. LONICERA. 

 LoNicERA PARViFLORA. Small i/ellow Honeysuckle. 



Whorls of the spike subsessile; corollas short, rin- 

 gent, gibbous at base ; filaments bearded ; leaves all 

 connate, glaucous beneath, deciduous, the upper ones 

 perfoliate, and much exceeding the flowers. 

 Syn, LoNiCERA dioica. L. 



An erect shrub with pale, rough bark. Leaves oblong, undu- 

 late and revolute at the edge, white-glaucous underneath, mostly 

 sessile, the upper ones connate. Flowers in a terminal head or 

 whorl. Germs aggregate, ovate, supporting a minute calyx of 

 five subacute teeth. Corolla yellow, the tube gibbous at base, 

 the border irregular, with its segments commonly curled or re- 

 volute at the edge. Stamens exserted, as long as the segments 

 of the corolla, smooth above, growing to the corolla, and slightly 

 hairy below. Style nearly as long as the stamens, curved ; stig- 

 ma capitate. — Found in woods in the western parts of the state. 

 — June. 



LoNiCERA HiRsuTA. Eaton. Hairy HoneysiicJcle. 



Corollas ringent, hairy ; filaments bearded ; leaves 

 hairy, the lower ones obovate, upper ones connate. 

 Syn. Caprifolium pubescens. Golclie, Edin. Jom-nal. 



A woody vine said to twine upon trees to the height of twenty 

 or thirty feet. My specimens, given me by Mr. Eaton half a 

 dozen years since, and published in his Manual, are very hairy, 

 the leaves obovate, finely ciliate, some of them abruptly acumi- 



