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To4 LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS,—SCARLET HONEYSUCKLE, 
woods. It is very often found, however, in the deeper shade, 
and then its flowers are few. In these cases, even in Pennsyl- 
vania where it is occasionally found, its trailing stems retain the 
leaves green all the winter, though Dr. Gray says “leaves de- 
ciduous in the North,” referring probably to cultivation. The 
plant is not found wild beyond Southern New York, whence it 
extends down to Louisiana and Florida, and Mr. Butler, in the 
first volume of the “ Botanical Gazette,’ notes that it is found 
across the Mississippi in Arkansas. Usually it favors low, moist 
places, but Mr. Howard Shriver, in the same magazine, states 
that it is found on cliffs of the New river in Virginia. Most of 
the species of Honeysuckle have the mouth of the corolla divided 
into two distinct portions or “lips;” our species is peculiar in 
having the mouth but slightly notched, and the divisions mostly 
regular. It is from this that it derives its name of “Trumpet 
Honeysuckle.” From its bright color it is also called quite fre- 
quently the “Scarlet Coral Honeysuckle.” It will be interesting 
to compare the manner of flowering with that of many other 
species of Honeysuckle. In some the leaves as well as the 
flowers are perfectly formed at eachnode. The flowering is then 
said to be axillary. In our species the leaves are nearly or en- 
tirely suppressed, and this makes the flowering appear in terminal 
racemes. It is further remarkable that in the case of those species 
which have this terminal character the upper leaves generally 
unite, and often increase in size. We may also note that when 
this union occurs there is much difference in the veining of the 
leaves, and this gives color to the view of some German mor- 
phologists that it is the growth of the leaf-blade that decides the 
number and position of the veins, and not that the veins are first 
formed as if they were the skeleton, the lcaf-blade in form and 
character being then made to suit the veins. 
