206 ENGLISH BQffANY. 



like, glabrous. Flowers sessile, in whorls in the axil of the con- 

 nate bracts at the termination of the flowering-shoots. Calyx-limb 

 nearly entire, glabrous, not one-fourth the length of the* ovary. 

 Corolla-tube sub-cylindrical, longer than the ringent limb, pubes- 

 cent with distant spreading hairs without glandular tips. Style 

 glabrous. 



In thickets. Bare, and doubtfully native. Cambridge and 

 Essex are probably the only counties in which it is not certainly 

 introduced. 



England, [Scotland.] Shrub. Early Summer. 



Stem with greyish bark, the young branches sub-glabrous, and 

 often slightly glaucous. Leaves firm, glaucous beneath, ]i to 3 incbes 

 long, the uppermost ones on the flowering-shoots connate, the bracts 

 from which the flowers are produced so much so that each pair 

 looks like a single leaf. Flowers 1$ inch long, pale-yellow, some- 

 times pink externally. Calyx-teeth extremely short. Upper lip of 

 the corolla with 4 obtuse lobes, scarcely one-third the length of 

 the whole ; lower lip oblong, narrow, entire. Berries oval-ovoid, 

 scarlet, not cohering together. The wild or subspontaneous form is 

 the L. pallida, " Host " (Bor. Fl. du Centre de la Fr. Vol. II. p. 299), 

 which is the L. Caprifolium praecox, D. C. Prod. Vol. IV. p. 331. 



Perfoliate Woodbine. 



French, Clievrefcuille des Jardins. German, GeissblaM. 



SPECIES II.— LO NICER A PERICL YME NUM. Li,m. 

 Plate DCXLII. 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXXII. Figs. 3, 4. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2075. 



Stems twining. Leaves deciduous, glabrous, or slightly pubes- 

 cent, slightly glaucous beneath; those of the barren branches 

 shortly stalked, oval or elliptical, entire or rarely sinuate ; those of 

 the flowering-shoots similar, but sessile, always entire, not connate. 

 Bracts much smaller than the leaves, foliaceous, clothed with 

 gland-tipped hairs, free, reduced to a single pair beneath the lowest 

 whorl of flowers ; bractioles applied to the calyx, sub-orbicular 

 or ovate, coloured, glandular-ciliated. Flowers subcapitate, ses- 

 sile, in approximate whorls at the termination of the flowering- 

 shoots, without foliaceous bracts (except below the lowest whorl). 

 Calyx-limb glandular-pubescent, nearly as long as the ovary. 

 Corolla-tube sub-cylindrical, generally shorter than the ringent 

 limb, pubescent, with gland-tipped hairs. 





