526 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
creeping, throwing up suckers. (Don's. 
Mill.) ~ A bushy shrub. — Carolina, 
New England, and Newfoundland, on 
rocks and the highest mountains. Height 
3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1739. Flowers 
yellow; June and July, Fruit brown ; 
ripe in September. 
961. D. canadénsis. 962. D. canadénsis. 
_ There are a number of varieties of this species, differing in respect to the 
size of the flowers and of the leaves, but they are not worth keeping distinct. 
Genus IV, 
Bala 
LONYCERA Desf. Tne Lonicera, or HonEYsucKLE. Lin. Syst. 
Pentandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Desf. Fl. Atl., 1. p. 183. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 330.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 444. 
Synonymes. Lonticera sp. Lin., and many authors ; Caprifolium and Xylisteum Juss. Gen. p. 212.5 
Xylésteum, Caprifolium, Chamacérasus, Periclfmenum Tourn. Inst. t. 378. and 379, ; Caprifdlium 
and Lonicera Reem. et Schult. Syst.; Lonfcera and Xylésteum Torrey Fl. Un. St.; Chévre- 
feuille, Fr.; Geissblatt, Honeigblume, and Lonicere, Ger. 
Derivation. Named after Adam Lonicer, a German, who was born in 1528, and died in 1556. There 
was another Lonicer, John, who wrote comments on Dioscorides. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tube 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, campanulate, or funnel- 
shaped, with a 5-cleft, usually irregular, limb. Stamens 5. Style filiform. 
Stigma capitate. Berries 3-celled. Seeds crustaceous. (Don’s Mill.) | 
Leaves simple, opposite, stipulate, deciduous, or evergreen; sometimes 
connate, entire, occasionally runcinate in the same species. Flowers ax- 
illary, or capitate, variously disposed. — Shrubs, erect or twining; natives of 
Europe, the North of Africa, Asia, and America, 
The greater number of the species and varieties are of easy culture in 
British gardens, in common garden soil; and they are all propagated by 
cuttings, or some of them more readily by layers. The flowers of some of 
the species are highly fragrant and ornamental; and that of the common 
European honeysuckle is supposed to have given rise to one of the most 
beautiful ornaments of Grecian architecture. “The honeysuckles offer an easy 
opportunity of improvement, by intermixing the fragrant and more vigorous 
with the yellow and the scarlet.” (Herb. Amaryll, p. 363.) The genus Lo- 
nicera of Linnzus was separated by Roemer and Schultes into the genera 
Lonfcera and Caprifolium; but they were reunited by DeCandolle, whose 
arrangement has been followed by Sir W. J. Hooker and G. Don, and is 
adopted by us on the present occasion. The distinctive characters of the 
sections are as follows :— 
Caprifolium. Plants twining. Flowers in capitate whorls. 
Xylbsteum. Plants twining or erect. Flowers axillary. 
§ i. Caprifolium Dec. 
Identification. Dec. F). Fr., 4. & 270. ; Prod., 4. p. 331. 
Synonymes. Caprifolium Juss. Gen. 212; Lonicera Torr. Fl. Un. St. 1. p. 242., but not of Schult, 
