HONEYSUCKLE 



Flowers. — Axillary, in pairs on short pedicels, tubular, cream-white 

 fading to yellow, fragrant. 



Calyx. — Five-toothed. 



Corolla. — Tubular, one and a half to two inches long, cream-white, 

 sometimes purplish outside; two-lipped, upper lip a long, narrow strap; 

 lower lip broad with a four -toothed border; teeth rounded. 



Stamens. — Five, with long thread-like filaments. 



Ovary. — Two to three-celled. 



Fruit. — ^A berry. 



The Japanese Lonicera is the fragrant white honeysuckle that 

 climbs upon our porches and over our walls. The flowers appear 

 in pairs, at first white, but fade to a dull, pale-yellow before they 

 fall. At the north the leaves just miss of evergreen, in a milder 

 climate they attain it. 



Of other climbing species, Woodbine, Lonicera periclymenum, 

 bearing a dense head of very fragrant white, red, or yellow flowers, 

 is a favorite. So is Lonicera caprifblium, which sometimes escapes 

 from cultivation and has been described as an American species. 

 It is, however, native to middle Europe and western Asia. 



TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE 



Lonicera sempervirens. 



A native climbing Lonicera, long in cultivation, bearing orange- 

 scarlet trumpet-like flowers and connate leaves. 



Stem. — High-climbing, glabrous, reaching ten to fifteen feet, evergreen 

 southward. 



Leaves. — Opposite, oval to oblong, the upper connate; two to three 

 inches long. 



Flowers. — ^Tubular, scarlet or orange-scarlet in peduncled interrupted 

 spikes. 



Calyx. — Five-toothed. 



Corolla. — Tubular, slightly swollen, one and a half to two inches long; 

 border five-lobed; deep-red without, yellowish within. 



Stamens. — Five; style long. 



Fruit. — ^A berry. 



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