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IV. HONEVSUCKLE. LONICEEA. 



Shrubs, or tall climbers, with opposite entire leaves, and white, yellowish, 

 pink, or red flowers, two or more together in terminal or axillary heads. 

 Calyx with a border of 5 small teeth. Corolla with a more or less elongated 

 tube, and an oblique Umb either 5-lobed or in two lips, the upper one 4- 

 lobed, the lower entire. Stamens 5. Style filiform, with a capitate stigma. 

 Ovary 2- or S-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Berry small, with one 

 or very few seeds. 



A considerable genus, spread over the temperate regions of Europe, Asia, 

 and North America. It is really a natural one, and veiy readily distin- 

 guished from the adjoining genera by the flowers, although the two pruicipal 

 groups into which it is separable, the climbing true Honeysuckles and the 

 erect shrubby Jly Honeysuckles, are at first sight rather dissimilar in aspect. 



Climbers. Flowers long, in terminal heads. 



All the leaves distinct at the base 1. Common S. 



Leaves of the one or two uppermost paii's joined t<)gether at the base 2. Perfoliate H, 

 Erect shrub. Flowers short, two together on short axillary pe- 

 duncles 3. Fly S. 



Several exotic species of both sections are much cultivated in our gardens 

 and shrubberies. 



1. Common Koneysuckle. Iionicera Periclymeuum, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 800. Woodline.) 



A woody climber, scrambling over brushes and trees to a considerable 

 height. Leaves ovate or oblong, glabrous above, usually shghtly downy or 

 hairy underneath ; the lower ones contracted at the base or stalked, the upper 

 ones rounded and closely sessile, but not united. Flowers several togetlit-j-, 

 closely sessOe in terminal heads, which are always stalked above the last 

 leaves. Corolla about li inches long. Berries small and red. 



In woods, thickets, and hedges, in western and central Europe, from 

 soutliern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, but not extending eastward to 

 the Russian frontier. Common in Britain, extending to its northern extre- 

 mity. Fl. summer and, autv/mn. 



2. Perfoliate Honeysuckle. Iionicera Caprifolium, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 799.) 



Yery much Hke the common H., but quite glabrous ; the leaves broader, tine 

 uppermost pairs in the flowering branches united at the base, and the heads 

 of flowers closely sessile within a pair of leaves united into a single broadly 

 rounded perfohate leaf; or the flowers are sometimes separated into two 

 tiers, with a perfoliate leaf under each. 



In hedges and woods, in central and south-eastern Europe, and perhaps 

 western Asia, but often confounded with the tw'O common southern species, 

 L. implexa and L. etrusca. Not truly wild in Britain, but, long since cul- 

 tivated for ornament, it has established itself in some comities of England 

 and the south of Scotland so as to become almost nattiralized. Fl. spring 

 and early swm/mer. 



3. Fly Honeysuckle. Iionicera Xylosteum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 916.) 

 An erect, much branched shrub, 3 or 4 feet high, of a pale green, and 

 downy in all its parts. Leaves ovate, entire, and stalked, about 1^ inches 



