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Woods, coppices, Sec, frequent, p. Leicestershire, and near Ayr. 

 j^^ 5, — A small tree, having the steins and branches full of pith. 

 Leaves pinnate ; leaflets serrate or laciniate. Cymes terminal, large, 

 cream-coloured, smelling unpleasantly, 



2. Viburnum Linn, Guelder-rose. 



CalAimb 5-cleft. Cor. campamxlate or funnel-shaped, 5- 

 lobed. Stam. 5, Stigmas 3, sessile. Berry inferior, 1-seeded. 

 (Leaves simple.) — Name of doubtful origin. 



L V. Lanidna L. {inealy G. or Way faring -tree)-., leaves 

 elliptic with a cordate base serrate veined downy beneath, 

 pubescence stellate. E. B. t. 33L 



Woods and hedges, especially in a chalky or limestone soil. Dunglass 

 glen, Scotland, 1^ . 5, 6. — A large sJiruh^ much branched, the 

 voung shoots very downy. Flowers in large dense cymes, white. 

 CaL-feeth very minute. Berry purplish-black. 



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5-lobed, 



lobes acuminate and serrate, petioles with glands. E. B. t. 332. 



Woods and coppices, not unfrequent in England and Scotland. 

 \ . Fl .6, 7. — A small tree, very glabrous. Leaves large, subcordate, 

 broad. C^/nes large, with white flowers ; the perfect ones small and 

 resembling the last ; abortive ones in the circumference, consisting 

 of a very large, plane, 5-lobed corolla, without either stamens or pistil. 

 Flowers erect. Berries reddish-purple, drooping. 



3. Lonicera Linn. Lloney-suclde. 



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CalAimh small, 5-toothed. Cor. tubular or somewhat funnel- 



Style filiform. 

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shaped, the limb irregular, S-cleft. Stam. 5. 

 Stigma capitate. Beri^y 1 — 3-celled, few-seeded, 

 honour oi Adam Lonicer^ a German botanist. 



1. L. * Caprifolium L. (pale perfoliate LI.} ; flowers ringent 

 whorled terminal sessile, leaves deciduous glabrous obtuse, 

 upper ones connate perfoliate, style glabrous. JE. B. t. 799. 



Woods and thickets, rare. Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire. In 

 Colinton woods and on Corstorphine hill near Edinhurgh, and in 

 hedges at Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire. Ti. 5, 6. — Berries smooth, 

 of an orange-colour, 



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2. L. Peridymenum L. (common H.^ or Woodbine) ; heads 

 stalked, flowers ringent capitate terminal, leaves all distinct 

 jjeclduous oval. E. B. t. 800. 



Frequent in woods and hedges, T^ , 6 — 9. — Berries red. 



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3. L. ""Xylosteum L. (upright Fly H.) ; peduncles 2-flowered 

 downy as long as the floweVs, berries distinct except at the 



base, calyx-limb deciduous, leaves ovate entire downy. E. B. 

 t. 916. 



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