PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Rhamnus. 65 



Marsh. Peat bogs under Headington Wick Copse. Sb. Be- 

 tween Heyiield's Hut and Port Meadow. B.v. 

 Per. JuIt/. 



Root fibres many, simple. Plant smooth, pale green, about one 

 foot. Stem round, terminating in one or more long clusters of 

 many, small, w^hite fl. Ls. alternate. 



Found in almost every quarter of the globe, and in different lati- 

 tudes ; this happens to several aquatics. 



LONICKRA.' Honeysuckle. 



L. Caprifolium. Pale Perfoliate H. Flowers gaping-, 

 whorled, terminal. Leaves deciduous ; the uppermost 

 united at the base and perfoliate. E. B. 799- Peri- 

 clymenum perfoliatum. G. E. 891. 



Woods, thickets. In a wood near Elsfield, plentifully. Rev. T, 

 Butt. 



Shrub. July. 



Ls. opposite, smooth. Fl. stalkless, in the bosom of the upper Is., 

 fragrant. Cor. yellowish, tube blush- coloured. Berr. elliptic, 

 orange-red, crowned with the cal. nearly entii'e. 



L. Pericly'menum. Common H. or JVoodhine. Heads 

 of flowers egg-shaped, tiled, terminal. Leaves all 

 separate, deciduous. Flowers gaping. E. B. 800. 

 C. fas. 1. 15. Periclymenum. G. E. 891. 



Hedges, groves, thirhefs. Var. /3. found near Oxford by Mr. Jenner. 



Dil. in R. p. 458. 

 Shrvxb. July. 

 Discrim. from L. Caprifolium by its Is. all distinct, not perfoliate, _^. 



in an egg-shaped head, not axillary, fruit crowned with a five 



toothed cal. Berry rounder, darker red. Stems climbing high. 



Ls. entire, mostly stalkless, sometimes downy. 



Fl. delightfully fragrant in the evening, or after rain. The 

 Woodbine of poets, Milton's "Twisted Eglantine." The climbing 

 action of plants curious ; such phenomenon adduced in favour of 

 an instinctive, or perceptive power in vegetables. 

 In var. /3. Is. sinuated like those of an oak, and variegated ; called 



Oak-leaved Honeysuckle. Fl. variable in colour, externally 



deep red, or pale yellowish. 



(L. Xylosteum. Upright Fly H. See Appendix.) 



RHAMNUS." Buckthorn. 



R. cathdrticus. Common B. Thorns terminal. Flowers 

 four-cleft, dioecious. Leaves egg-shaped, saw-toothed. 



' Named after Adam Lonicer, Botanist. 

 3 Gr. Ramnos, a branch : a branchy shrub. 



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