278 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vor. III. 
Corolla-tube 5”—7” long; filaments nearly glabrous. 5. L. Sullivantii. 
Corolla bright yellow or orange, its slender tube not gibbous. 6. L. flava. 
Corolla tubular, the short limb nearly equally 5-lobed. 7. L. sempervirens. 
** Climbing vine; flowers in pairs on short axillary peduncles. 
8. L. japonica. 
4** Shrubs; flowers in pairs on axillary bracted pedurcles. 
Bracts of the peduncle subulate, linear, minute, or none. 
Leaves rarely cordate, more or less pubescent, or ciliate. | 
Leaves pale, or glaucous, thick, strongly reticulate-veined. 
Peduncles shorter than the flowers; fruit.blue; leaves ciliate. 9. L. coerulea. 
Peduncles equalling the flowers; fruit red; leaves not ciliate. 10. L. oblongifolia. 
Leaves bright green, thin, ciliate, not strongly reticulate; fruit red. 11. L. canadensis. 
Leaves pale, densely pubescent beneath, even when old. 12. L. Xylosteum. 
Leaves cordate, glabrous. 13. L. tatarica. 
Bracts of the peduncle broad, foliaceous. 14. L. involucrata. 
1. Lonicera Caprifolium L. Italian 
or Perfoliate Honeysuckle. 
Fig. 3979. 
L. Caprifolium L. Sp. Pl. 173. 1753. 
L. grata Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 231. 1789. 
Caprifolium gratum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 
161. 1814. 
Climbing high, glabrous and somewhat 
glaucous. Upper one to three pairs of 
leaves connate-perfoliate, glaucous be- 
neath, the others sessile or short-peti- 
oled, oval or obovate, all rounded at 
the base, entire; flowers in terminal 
capitate sessile clusters; corolla gla- 
brous within, 1’~-13’ long, purple with- 
out, the limb white within, strongly 
2-lipped; upper lip 4-lobed, the lower 
one narrow, reflexed; tube slightly 
curved, not gibbous; stamens and style 
much exserted; berries red. 
Thickets, New_York, New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania to Michigan, Missouri, and 
in the Southern States. Escaped from 
cultivation and naturalized. Native of 
Europe. Called also american or fragrant 
woodbine. May-June. 
2. Lonicera hirsita Eaton. Hairy 
Honeysuckle. Fig. 3980. 
L. hirsuta Eaton, Man. Ed. 2, 307. 1818. 
Twining, the branches hirsute and glandu- 
lar-pubescent. Upper one or two pairs of 
leaves connate-perfoliate, the others oval or 
ovate, short-petioled or sessile, softly pu- 
bescent beneath, dark green and appressed- 
pubescent above, ciliate, obtuse or obtusish 
at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the 
base, 2’-34’ long; flowers verticillate in 
short terminal interrupted spikes; corolla 
pubescent within, 1’-14’ long, viscid-pubes- 
cent without, orange-yellow, turning red- 
dish, the tube slender, somewhat gibbous. at 
the base, the limb strongly 2-lipped, about 
as long as the tube or shorter; filaments 
hirsute below. 
In woodlands, Vermont and Ontario to 
Manitoba, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. 
Rough woodbine. June-July. 
