306 LONICERA. [CLASS V, ORDER I. 



those terminating the branches cupped at the base. Inflorescence 

 terminal and axillary whorls, of about six sessile flowers in each. 

 Flowers highly fragrant, about two inches long, of a yellowish colour, 

 with a pale pink tube, sometimes almost white. Calyx cup-shaped, 

 the limb of five angular teeth. Corolla irregular, with a long tube 

 dilating upwards, swelling more on one side than the other, the limb 

 of five deep linear obtuse segments, one cut deeper than the others, 

 recurved, two of the segments forming as it were one lip, and three 

 another. Stamens of irregular lengths, the fJaments about the top of 

 the tube. Anthers oblong, yellow. Style about as long as the corolla, 

 slender. Stigma capitate. Berry ovate, of a tawny yellowish hue, 

 quite smooth, crowned by the peristent calyx. 



Habitat. — Woods and thickets ; rare. Oxfordshire and Cambridge- 

 shire, in England ; Colliuton Woods, and Corstorphine Hill, near 

 Edinburgh, and in hedges at Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. 



Shrub ; flowering in June and July. 



The pale flowered Honey-suckle is frequent in almost all the woods 

 and shady places in Italy, and is not unfrequent in many other parts 

 of the Continent. It was formerly thought to possess wonderful power 

 in the cure of ulcerated legs of aged persons, but it is not now thought 

 to be any remedy for the cure of old age. The specific name of 

 Caprifolium is from the leaves being the favourite food of goats (Capra 

 cegagrus.) 



2. L. Pericly'menum, Linn. (Fig. 378.) common Honey-suckle, or 

 Woodbine. Whorls of flowers in terminal stalked heads; leaves 

 deciduous, all distinct, petiolated. 



English Botany, t. 800.— English Flora, vol. i. p. 327. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 1 18. — Caprifolium Periclymenum. — Lindley, 

 Synopsis, p. 131. 



Stejn woody, climbing, smooth, twisting itself from right to left 

 around the stem and branches of trees, &c. to a considerable length, 

 having numerous opposite branches and leaves. Leaves ovate lanceo- 

 late, on short footstalks, a shining green above, glaucous beneath, with 

 a prominent mid-rib, and five branched lateral veins ; sometimes the 

 leaves, especially on the under side and the extremity of the branches, 

 are more or less scattered over with simple hairs, and on plants grown by 

 the sea they are mostly more glaucous, and become somewhat succulent ; 

 and a variety is mentioned having the leaves sinuated like those of the 

 oak, and variegated. Inflorescence in terminal stalked heads, of 

 numerous whorled flowers. Flowers about an inch and half long, 

 irregular, very fragrant in the evenings, or after a shower. Calyx 

 small, each having at its base a small hractea, and, like the calyx, 

 scattered over with glandular hairs, the limb of five obtuse segments. 

 Corolla with a long tube, dilating upwards, swelling on one side, 



