212 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



oblong leaves, 8'-5' long, on short petioles, clammy flowers, and berries 

 quite separate. 



* * The 2 or 4 bracts under the ovaries small or minute, sometimes 



caducous. 



+- Mowers appearing before the leaves. 



L. fragrantlssima, Lindl. Branches smooth ; flowers white or tinted, 

 sessile at the nodes, strongly 2-lipped, very fragrant ; leaves thickish and 

 veiny, short-obovate, with cusp at tip, smooth. China. Foliage ever- 

 green in favorable localities. 



L. Standi sh/i, Hook. Much like the last, but branches retrorsely hairy, 

 and leaves ovate-lanceolate and ciliate and more deciduous. China. 



+- i- Flowers appearing with or after the leaves. 



++ Flowers nearly sessile. 



L. caerulea, Linn. Leaves oval, downy when young ; corolla 5-lobed, 

 yellowish ; bracts awl-like, longer than the united ovaries ; double berry 

 blue. Cold woods and bogs N. ; also cult. 



++ ++ Flowers conspicuously peduncled. 



L. Tatdrica, Linn. Tartarian H. Strong growing tall shrub, now 

 commonly planted from Asia ; leaves cordate-oval, obtuse or acute, with 

 chaste whitish or bluish-red flowers in profusion, followed by united red 

 berries. 



L. ciliata, Muhl. Straggling, 3°-5° high ; oval or oblong and partly 

 heart-shaped leaves, thin and downy beneath when young, and ciliate 

 on .the edge; honey-yellow corolla (§' long), with short, nearly equal 

 lobes and very unequal-sided base ; berries red, separate ; flowers early 

 spring. N. 



L. oblongifdlia, Muhl. Upright, 2°-5° high ; leaves oblong ; pedun- 

 cles long and slender ; corolla deeply 2-lipped (£' long) in early summer ; 

 bracts minute or deciduous ; berries united, red or purple. Swamps, N. 



§ 2. True Honeysuckles, with twining stems (in on& wild species 

 only slightly so). 



* Corolla with very long tube and 5 short, almost regular lobes. 



L. sempe'rvirens, Ait. Trumpet H. Wild from N. Y., S., and 

 commonly cult. Leaves evergreen (as the name denotes) only at the S., 

 thickish, pale beneath, the lower oblong, the uppermost pairs united 

 round the stem ; flowers scentless, in spiked whorls 2' long, scarlet with 

 yellow inside (also a yellow variety), produced all summer ; berries red. 



* * Corolla strongly 2-lipped; lower lip narrow, upper one broad and 



i-lobed. 



+- The 1 to 4 uppermost pairs of leaves united round the stem in the form 

 of an oval or rounded disk or shallow cup, the flowers sessile in their 

 axils, or partly in leafless spiked whorls beyond (Lessons, Fig. 163) ; 

 berries red or orange. 



■m. Corolla long (1' or more), glabrous within. 



L. grata, Ait. American Woodbine. Leaves smooth, glaucous 

 beneath, obovate, the 2 or 3 upper pairs united ; flowers white, with a 

 pink or purple slender tube, fading to yellowish, fragrant, the corolla not 

 gibbous at the base, whorled in the upper axils. N. J. to Mich., S. and W.; 

 also cult. 



L. Caprifblium, Linn. Leaves obovate, obtuse or slightly acute, very 

 glaucous, uppermost 2 or 3 pairs connate ; flowers yellow with a bluish, 

 very slender, not gibbous tube, in capitate whorls. Cult, from Eu. ; flowers 

 only in early summer. 



