XL. CAPRIFOLIA‘CEZ: LONI/CERA. 537 
to 4ft. Cultivated in 1822. Flowers deep red, scarlet, or crimson ;. April 
and May. Fruit ?. 
= 22. L. Xyxo’steum LZ. The bony-wooded, or upright, Fly Honeysuckle. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 248.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 335.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 448. 
Synonymes. Caprifdlium dumetorum Lam. Fl. Fr. 3. p. 367.; Xylésteum dumetdrum Monch Meth. 
p- 502. ; Gisilostio, Ital. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 916.; Fl. Grac., t. 223. ; and our/jfig. 995. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Erect, downy. Leaves 
ovate, acute, petiolate, soft. Peduncles 
2-flowered, shorter than the leaves. 
Bracteas hairy, double; the two outer 
ones lanceolate, spreading; inner a small 
concave scale under each germ. Berries 
oval, distinct, 1-celled, 6-seeded. Flowers 
small, cream-coloured, downy. Calyx of 
5 obtuse lobes. Berries scarlet. (Don’s 
Mill.) An upright shrub. Europe, to 
Caucasus, in thickets, hedges, and rocky 
places, and by the sides of woods. 
Height 8ft. to l0ft. Cultivated in 1596. 
Flowers cream-coloured; July. Fruit 
scarlet; ripein September. Naked young 
wood greyish white. 
Varieties. 
x L, X. 2 leucocérpum Dec. Prod. iv. 
p- 335. has white berries. 
x L, X. 3 xanthocérpum Dec. |. c. has the berries yellow. 
2 LD. X. 4 melanocérpum Dec. |. c. has black berries. 
Linnzus says that it makes excellent hedges: in a dry soil; that the clear 
parts between the joints of the shoots are used in Sweden for tobacco-pipes ; 
and that the wood, being extremely hard, makes teeth for rakes, &c., and yields 
only in beauty to that of L. tatarica for walking-sticks. It is one of the oldest 
and hardiest inhabitants of British shrubberies. In the English garden, or 
rather park, at Munich, it is planted in masses and groups, along with other 
masses and groups of Cornus alba, Salix vitellina, and VibG@rnum O’pulus ; 
and, in the winter time, the whitish-grey bark of its shoots contrasts finely 
with the red, yellow, or brown, bark of the shrubs mentioned. 
a 23. L. ui’sprpa Pall. The hispid Honeysuckle. 
Identification. _ Pall. ex Willd. MSS. ; Led. Flor. Ross. Alt. 
Ill., t. 212.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 449. 
Engravings. Led. 1. c.; and our jig. 996. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Branches hispid. Leaves ovate, 
ciliated, petiolate, glabrous on both surfaces. 
Peduncles 2-flowered. Bracteas ovate-elliptic, 
exceeding the berries, (Don’s Mill.) An up- 
right shrub. Siberia, on the Altaian Moun- 
tains. Height 2ft. to 3ft. Introduced ?. 
Flowers greenish white, pendulous ; May and 
June. Berries distinct, purple; ripe in August. 
Branches opposite, glabrous or bristly, brown- 
ish. Leaves 13 or 2 inches long, and 1 in. broad, 
glabrous on both surfaces, cordate at the base. 
995. L. Xylésteum. 
a 24. L. rtexuo’sa Thunb. The flexible- 
stemmed Honeysuckle. 
Identification. Thunb. in Lin. Trans., 2 p. 330., but not of 
bolt nor Ker ; Don’s Mill., 3. p 449. : 
Synonymes. L, nigra Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 89., but not of Lin. ; 
SL, brachYpoda Dec. Prod. 4. p. 335. 
996. L, hispida» 
