218 Caprifoliacce—Linnea. 
Drviston Il. -GAMOPETALA. 
Petals usually united, forming a monopetalous corolla. 
Onver LVIL—CAPRIFOLIACEA. 
Shrubs or herbs with opposite usually exstipulate simple or 
compound leaves and usually corymbose or cymose flowers. 
Calyx-limb superior, 3- to 5-toothed or -lubed. Corolla regular 
or irregular, often 2-lipped. Stamens 4 to 10, inserted upon 
the corolla. Fruit a berry, drupe, or dry capsule, indehiscent, 
1- or more celled and seeded; seeds albuminous, often with a 
horny testa. There are about 200 species, in 14 genera, chiefly 
from the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere. 
1. LINN ADA. 
A genus of one species. A small elegant creeping evergreen 
shrub, named in honour of the celebrated Swedish botanist, 
and thus possessing an additional attraction in the eyes of the 
amateur. 
1. L. borealis. — Leaves ovate, obtuse, crenate, nearly 
glabrous. Flowers pink, very fragrant, in pairs, on slender 
bracteolate axillary peduncles. Corolla campanulate. Stamens 
4, Fruit small, 3-celled by abortion, l-seeded. This charming 
little plant is widely spread in Europe and temperate and 
arctic Asia and North America, and is indigenous in the North 
of England and some parts of Scotland, but nowhere very 
abundant. It flowers in July. 
2, LONICHRA. 
Erect prostrate or climbing shrubs with opposite simple 
entire or lobed deciduous or persistent leaves and cymose or 
capitate often fragrant flowers sometimes adhering together by 
the ovaries in pairs. Calyx-limb of five often unequal teeth. 
Corolla tubular or bell-shaped, gibbous at the base in some 
species, with the limb oblique or 2-lipped. Stamens 5. Fruit 
a fleshy 2- or 3-celled berry. There are upwards of eighty 
species in the temperate and warm regions of the North. This 
genus was named in honour of the German botanist Lonicer. 
There is great confusion in the nomenclature of the Japanese 
and Chinese Honeysuckles, arising probably from the fact that 
many of them are garden varieties. 
1. L. Pericljmenum. Honeysuckle or Woodbine.—This 
favourite indigenous shrub is surpassed by none of the exotic 
