48 ELEMENTS OP BOTANY. 



a single terminal whorl, very sweet-scented ; corolla whitish, red, or 

 yellow, two-lipped, with the lips recurved. A moderately high- 

 climbing shrub, cultivated from Europe. 



* * More or less upright bushes, not climbing. 



c. (L. Tatarica), Tartarian Honeysuckle. A branching 

 shrub, 5-8 ft. high, with oval or ovate, heart-shaped, shining leaves 

 and many showy rose-colored flowers ; fruit consisting of two red 

 berries ; somewhat united below at maturity. 



d. (L. ciliata). Early Ply Honeysuckle. A straggling 

 bush, 3-5 ft. high, with ovate or oval, slightly heart-shaped thin 

 leaves, at first downy beneath ; flowers straw-yellow, on short, slen- 

 der peduncles; corolla-lobes nearly equal, tube pouched at the base; 

 fruit, two separate red berries. 



IV. DIERVILLA, BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. 



Calyx with a limb of 5 linear divisions. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, almost regularly 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 slender, 2-celled, ripening into a 2-valved, many-seeded pod. 

 Low upright shrubs with taper-pointed serrate leaves and 

 flowers in loose terminal or axillary clusters or cymes. 



(D. trifida). Common Bush Honeysuckle. Bushy, 1-4 ft. 

 high, with ovate or oblong-ovate petioled leaves, 1-3-flowered 

 peduncles, and pods tapering to a slender point. 



COMPOSITiE, COMPOSITE FAMILY. 



Flowers in a dense head, on a common receptacle, sur- 

 rounded by an involucre composed of many bracts (Fig. 174), 

 with usually 5 stamens inserted on the corolla, the anthers 

 united into a tube which surrounds the style (Fig. 131). 

 Calyx with its tube adnate to the ovary, the limb sometimes 

 wanting, when present taking the form of scales, bristles, 

 etc., known as pappus (Fig. 174). Corolla either strap- 

 shaped or tubular (Fig. 110), in the former case often 

 6-toothed, in the latter usually 5-lobed. Style 2-cleft above. 

 Fruit an akene, often provided with means of transportation 

 (Figs. 174, 178, 179). The largest family of flowering plants 



