Lonicera.] capeifoliace^. 235 



are very grateful lo small birds. The leaves fade into a deep purplish red in 

 autumn. 



Pallas informs us that the slender stems are used in Russia for whip-handles, 

 a purpose to which they are sometimes applied in this island, as might he inferred 

 from the vernacular name of Whip-crop. 



1 have seen the fruit of the black Haw-tree (F. prunifolium), which has 

 exactly the flavour of that of V. Lantana, exposed for sale in the market at Mon- 

 treal, under the name of Alizes, being plainly confounded with and reputed a 

 kind of Thorn. 



Some species of Viburnum from Nepal, as V. cordifolium and cotinifolium, 

 are closely allied to our Lantana, as is also the Hobble-bush of N. America, V. 

 lantanoides, Michx., which by some has been thought to be a variety of the Eu- 

 ropean Wayfaring-tree. The former is however truly distinct in its partly pro- 

 cumbent habit ; far larger, rounder, coarsely and doubly serrated leaves, which are 

 strongly reticulated beneath ; in its sessile fewer-flowered cymes, the outer blos- 

 soms of which are large, sterile and radiant, like those of V. Opulus. A similar 

 relationship exists between this last, the V. acerifolium of America, and the V. 

 orientale of Asia, showing clearly that the retention of Opulus, as a section by 

 DeCandoUe or as a genus by Tournefort and others, is wholly unnatural, because 

 some species of Viburnum, belonging properly to the section Lentago of the for- 

 mer, have radiaut cymes, whilst others, with lobed leaves and the habit of the 

 Opulus division, are destitute either of abortive flowers, or stipuliform appendages 

 to the petioles, or both. 



III. Lonicera, Linn. Honeysuckle. 



" Calyx-limb small, 5-toothed. Corolla tubular or somewhat 

 funnel-shaped ; the limb irregular, 5-cleft. Stamens 5. Style 

 filiform. Stigma capitate. Berry 1 — 3 celled, few-seeded." — 

 Br. Fl. 



1. L. Periclymenum, L. Common Honeysuckle. Woodhine. 

 " Heads stalked, flowers ringent capitate terminal, leaves all dis- 

 tinct deciduous oval." — Br. Fl. p. 185. E. B. t. 800. Guimp. 

 und Hayne, Abbild der Deutsch. Holtzart, i. 17, t. 7. 



;8. Leaves sinuate. Oak-leaved Honeysuckle. 



In woods, thickets and hedges ; abundant.* Fl. June — October. Fr. August 

 — October. Ip . 



A state with the leaves and stems perfectly glabrous occurs at Bembridge down, 

 banks in Sandown bay, and in hedges between Hardinshoot and Whitefield farms. 

 This condition is perhaps not at all uncommon, but the plant is, I think, far 

 more usually hairy, and with the leaves downy beneath. 



/3. In a wood by Elm farm, near Calbourne. Wood between Wootton and 

 Whippingham. 



* The Honeysuckle nourishes the larva of the beautiful and rather rare butter- 

 fly, Limenitis Camilla, whose graceful evolutions on the wing I had first the 

 pleasure of observing in Quarr copse, where it is frequent. 



