LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS. —-SCARLET HONEYSUCKLE, 183 
too large to penetrate into the narrow part of the tube, and have 
not a long tongue like the sphinges, to reach the juice, make a 
puncture towards the bottom and so fairly tap the juice.” It may 
be remarked here that the word “ Honeysuckle,’ by all the 
earlier writers, seems to have been confined to the flowers of 
the Woodbine plant. 
“A honeysuckle, 
The amorous woodbine’s offspring,” 
as Ben Jonson expresses it, and this would leave Dr. Prior’s ex- 
planation quite out of the question. It is worthy of remark, by 
the way, that Green notes the habit of the larger insects of boring 
into the corolla from the outside, an insect-practice supposed to 
be among the discoveries of these modern days. 
Another name of somewhat ancient times was Capr7folium, and 
this has been taken as a name for the whole order—Caprifoliacce. 
In like manner this name puzzles the commentators, and is thought 
to be derived from Latin words signifying a goat and a leaf, 
“because goats are fond of the leaves.” ‘This is an unlikely 
reason. A popular name for the Woodbine among some of the 
English peasantry who know nothing of Latin is “Caprifoly;” and 
itis probably, therefore, a corruption from some forgotten source. 
The botanical name, Lovzcera, credited to Linnzus in our text- 
books, seems to have been first applied by Ray, a noted English 
botanist who flourished towards the end of the seventeenth cen- 
tury; and it commemorates Adam Lonitzer, who wrote several 
large folio volumes on the medical properties of plants which 
were published in Frankfort between 1551 and 1564. He was 
born at Marbourg in 1528 and died in Frankfort in 1586. The 
name appears in Plumier’s works in 1703, and he is often credited 
with the authorship of the name. 
Independently of its family history and generical associations, our 
Trumpet Honeysuckle has abundant points of its own to interest 
the student and the mere lover of wild American floral scenery. 
There is scarcely anything more lovely than this species when it 
gets a chance to clamber over low bushes on the outskirts of 
