280 CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vo. III. 
6. Lonicera flava‘Sims. Yellow Honeysuckle. 
Fig. 3984. 
Lonicera flava Sims, Bot. Mag. pl. 1318. 1810. 
Twining to a height of several feet, or trailing, 
glabrous. Leaves broadly oval, or elliptic, entire, 
obtuse at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, 
short-petioled, or the upper sessile, green above, 
glaucous beneath, the pairs subtending flowers 
connate-perfoliate; flowers bright orange-yellow, 
fragrant, in a terminal interrupted spike; corolla 
1’-14’ long, the slender tube pubescent above within, 
not gibbous at the base, the limb strongly 2-lipped, 
about half as long as the tube; filaments and style 
glabrous, exserted; fruit about 3” in diameter. 
North Carolina to Kentucky, Missouri, Georgia and 
Alabama. April-May. 
7. Lonicera sempérvirens L. Trumpet or 
Coral Honeysuckle. Fig. 3985. 
Lonicera sempervirens L. Sp. Pl. 173. 1753. 
Lonicera sempervirens hirsutula Rehder, Rep. Mo. 
Bot Gard. 14: 169 1903. 
Glabrous or somewhat pubescent, high climbing, 
evergreen in the South. Leaves oval, obtuse, 2-3’ 
long, or the lower ones smaller, narrower and 
acutish, the upper pairs connate-perfoliate, all 
conspicuously glaucous and sometimes slightly 
pubescent beneath, dark green above; flowers 
verticillate in terminal interrupted spikes; corolla 
scarlet or yellow, 1-14’ long, glabrous or some- 
what pubescent, the tube narrow, slightly expanded | 
above, the limb short and nearly regular; stamens 
and style scarcely exserted; berries scarlet, about 
3” in diameter. 
In low grounds, or on hillsides, Maine to Florida, 
New Hampshire, New York, Nebraska and Texas. 
Woodbine (N. C.). Scarlet trumpet-honeysuckle. 
April-S ept. 
8. Lonicera japénica Thunb. Japanese 
or Chinese Honeysuckle. Fig. 3986. 
Lonicera japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. 89. 1784 
Pubescent, climbing high or trailing. Leaves 
all short-petioled, ovate, entire, 1-3’ long, 
acute at the apex, rounded at the base, dark 
green and glabrous above, pale and usually 
sparingly pubescent beneath; flowers in pairs 
from the upper axils, peduncled, leafy-bracted 
at the base, white or pink, fading to yellow, 
pubescent without, the tube nearly 1’ long, 
longer than the strongly 2-lipped limb; sta- 
mens and style exserted; berries black, 3-4” 
in diameter. 
Freely escaped from cultivation, Connecticut, 
New York and Pennsylvania to North Carolina, 
Florida and West Virginia. Naturalized from 
eastern Asia. June-Aug. 
