HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



CAPRIFOLIACE^. 

 Smooth-leaved Honeysuckle. Lonioera glauca. 



Found in rocky grounds and uplands during May. 



A bushy, and somewhat twining shrub, leafy and tough, which 

 grows from 3 to 5 feet high, with a gray bark, that is green when 

 young. 



The rather large leaf is oval, and broadest at the base, with a 

 rounded tip, and an entire margin ; the fibre is firm and the surface is 

 smooth ; in color it is green, silvery underneath. The leaves occur 

 opposite each other, the upper ones growing completely together 

 around the stalk, the lower being only partly united. 



The small flower has a slender tubular corolla spreading into 2 

 unequal divisions, , the upper broad, and 4-cleft, the lower entire, long, 

 and narrow ; in color a pale, dull tawny or red ; the 5 long stamens, 

 with their very distinct tips, are pale greenish-yellow ; the long pistil is 

 tipped with a green disc; the round calyx is minutely 5-parted, and 

 green. The flowers, on the ends of the branches, are set close around 

 the stalk in whorls, usually of 6, after the Honeysuckle habit. 



What charm the flowers lack in fragrance, the plant makes up in 

 the graceful curves of its partly twining stems, and in its attractive 

 leafage. , 



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