Lonicera. CAPRIFOLIACE^E. 17 



L. grata, Ait. Glabrous: leaves obovate or oblong and the upper one or two pairs con- 

 nate, paler or somewhat glaucous beneath : flowers in terminal capitate cluster and from 

 the axils of the connate-perfoliate leaves : corolla reddish or purple outside ; the limb white 

 within, fading to tawny yellow ; lips over half-inch long ; tube not gibbous : berries orange- 

 red.— Kew. i. 231 ; Willd. Spec. i. 984 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 332 ; Darlingt. Fl. Cest. ed. 2, 159 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 5. Caprifolium gratum, Pursh, Fl. i. 161. — Moist and rocky wood- 

 lands, N. New Jersey to Pennsylvania and mountains of Carolina according to Pursh, to 

 " W. Louisiana, Hale," in Torr. & Gray, Fl. But it may be doubted if really different 

 from L. Caprifolium of Furope, and if truly indigenous to this country. 



-i— +- Tube of corolla less than inch long, but larger than the limb ; the throat or tube below 

 hairy within : Atlautic species. 



++ Corolla bright orange-yellow ; tube not gibbous, fully half-inch or more long: filaments and 

 style glabrous : " flowers fragrant," produced early. 



L. flava, Sims. Somewhat glaucous, wholly glabrous : leaves broadly oval, 2 or 3 upper 

 pairs connate into a disk : flowers in a terminal capitate cluster : corolla glabrous ; the slen- 

 der tube at upper part within or prolonged adnate base of filaments hirsute-pubescent. — 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1318 ; Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 338; DC. Prodr. iv. 332. Caprifolium Fraseri, Pursh, 

 Fl. i. 160, excl. N. Y. habitat. C. fiavum, Ell. Sk. i. 271. — "Exposed rocky summit of 

 Paris Mountain in S. Carolina," in Laurens Co., Fraser. This very ornamental plant was 

 first noticed in Drayton's View of South Carolina, published in 1 802, p. 64, as growing on 

 Paris Mountain, Greenville ; afterwards it was collected by Fraser. Ell. 1. c. Upper 

 Georgia, Boykin, &c. It has not been found elsewhere ; but it is still sparingly in 

 cultivation. 



■h- ++ Corolla shorter, more or less hirsute within the throat ; tube usually somewhat gibbous. 



= Rather freely twining and high-climbing, little or not at all glaucous, pubescent: leaves deep 

 green above. 



L. hirsuta, Eatox. Leaves oval, conspicuously veiny and venulose both sides (3 or 4> 

 inches long), soft-pubescent (as also usually the branchlets) and pale beneath; upper one 

 or two pairs connate, lower short-petioled : corolla orange-yellow fading to dull purplish 

 or brownish, more or less viscid-pubescent outside ; tube half-inch long, little exceeding the 

 limb; throat and lower part of filaments hirsute. — Eaton, Man. Bot. ed. 2, 307 (1818); 

 Torr. Fl. i. 342 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3103, & Fl. i. 282 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 6. L. villosa 

 Muhl. Cat. 22, not DC. L. Douglasii, Hook. 1. c, being Caprifolium Douglasii, Lindl. 

 Trans. Hort. Soc. vii. 244 ; DC. 1. c. ; Loudon, Encl. Trees & Shrubs, 530, fig. 972. L. 

 parvifiora, var. ? Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 7, mainly. L. pubescens, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 194 ; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 332 ; Loudon, Encl. Trees & Shrubs, 529 (under L. flava). L. Goldii, Spreng. 

 Syst. i. 758. Caprifolium pubescens, Goldie in Edinb. Phil. Jour. vi. 323 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. 

 t.27. — Rocky banks, &c, Northern New England and Canada to Penn., Michigan, and 

 north shore of Lake Superior to the Saskatchewan. 

 = = Feebly twining or merely sarmentose or bushy, 2 to 6 feet high, conspicuously glaucous. 



Li. Sullivantii, Gbay. At length much whitened with the glaucous bloom, 3 to 6 feet 

 high, glabrous : leaves oval and obovate-oblong, thickish, 2 to 4 inches long, all those of 

 flowering stems sessile, and most of them connate, the uppermost into an orbicular disk : 

 corolla pale yellow, glabrous outside ; tube half-inch or less long, little longer than the 

 limb: filaments nearly' glabrous. — Proc. Am Acad. xix. 76. — L. n. sp.? Sulliv. Cat. PI. 

 Columb. 57. L. flava, var. Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 6 ; Gray, Man., mainly. — Central Ohio to 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, and Lake Winnipeg . also Tennessee and apparently in mountains of 

 N. Carolina. 



L. glaiica, Hill. Glabrous, or sometimes lower face of leaves tomentulose-puberulent, 



3 to 5 feet high, generally bushy : leaves oblong, often undulate (glaucous, but less whitened 

 than in the preceding, 2 or at most 3 inches long), 2 to 4 upper pairs connate : corolla quite 

 glabrous outside, greenish yellow or tinged or varying to purple, short ; the tube only 3 or 



4 lines long, rather broad, nearly equalled by the limb, within and also style and base of 

 filaments hirsute. —Hort. Kew. (1769) 446, t. 18 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 77. L. dioica, 

 L. Syst. Veg. 215 ; Ait. Kew. i. 230; Bot. Reg. t. 138, but not dicecious. L. media, Murr. 

 inComm. Gostt. 1776, 28, t. 3. L. parvifiora, Lam. Diet. i. 728 (1783); Torr. Fl. i. 243 ; DC. 



2 



