Hollyhock, its derivation may be traced to the Saxon lan- 
guage; the old name of Holyoak, being the same as Holihec, 
lyhock is a native of China, Africa, Madras, Istria, 
in = = rt flower an ser A th shegter 
k, ta desc a rose grow: 
park ny Sa ae wers is acci- 
b o only varieties bape 
It is an autumnal "we of which the bees are 
From pe bag <srateh A hollyhocks 
The hum ill he faints, will sip. H. Smith. 
The flowers of this genus have a double calyx, each one- 
leafed, the outer, cut half way into six parts, permanent and 
very spreading ; the inner, cut half way into five pa 
d permanent. 
an rm: t — ong a6 of five e spreading petals, 
coalescing at their ion his description is of the single 
ed. Seed flat, peg 
Aspiring Alcea emulates the rose. Evans. 
HONESTY; or, SATIN FLOWER. 
LUNARIA. 
Class 15.—TETRADYNAMIA. Order,—SILICULOSA. 
at. . Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
SILIQUOS. CRUCIFER®. 
Lunaria, fro med on account of an 
broad orbic ae eee ‘of its Sper cad its silvery legit 
h seed-vessels that con stone 
parent nature, which discovers those s 
d, from su which last, it ttivde its 
ch as have none; from 
glish name o sty. 
Ainsworth defines . Lunaria to be moon-wort, a kind of herb 
used sf ol d tions 
ute among the credulous of former ages, 
It was in high rep’ 
asa Soistiohing or enchanting herb. oa we learn from — 
er that Lunaria was one of the plants used in incantation 
Then sprinkles s she the juice of 
With nine aly os of the midnight rane 
From Lunary distilling. Dr ayton’s Nymphia. 
hanting Lunary here lies, 
ine sorceries aa 
btn genus * plants 
Drayton. 
herbaceous, annual, biennial, ~ 
witzerland, etc. They so: 
~~ 
pie as long as the calyz, 
of the same length. Calyz, 
ded, 
h ta down intoa ‘claw 
which two opposite 
_— coheri —. Tr es, of 
re pouc or bagged at 
HONEY FLOWER. 
8. 
Class 14.—DIDYNAMIA. Order.— ANGIOSPERMIA, 
at. Ord. Juss. 
RUTACER. 
elianthus, L. from the Greek rr honey, and 4 0s, 
named fro nce of honey which ch flows 
ere are only three species noticed in the Encyclopedia. 
The M. Major, with flowers in a long spike, pS hy from 
een the et towards the top of the stalks, 
a brown, 
a3 
r chocolate c ee The M. Minor, flowers, six or eight in a 
amental, cease ith green, yellow, and 
pores M. mosus, Pras in pe t clus- 
color These are all natives 
oots perennial : growing to the 
HONEY SUCKLE; or, WOODBINE, 
LONICERA. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. Order,—MONOGYNTA. 
t. Ord. Linn, Nat. Ord. Juss. 
ped ap CAPRIFOLIA. 
Lonicera, so named by Sn or in honor of Adem Lonicer, 
iddle of 
Marburg, 1528, lived at Frank- 
ring published two 
Medica; and a 
are ovcesta mall 
the sixteent th cent 
wooden cuts, which 
red. 
me Honeysuckle, is called, in Latin. 
finition in Johnson, Woodbine, the pl ant. 2d. 
The flower, or mages Bey of the Woodbine. aK Woodbine that 
beareth the Honeysuckle.’ 
, Caprifo- 
A honeysuckle 
The amorous woodbine’s offspring.” (See Johnson.) 
Caprifolium is derived from the Latin Caprea, a branch that 
ht endri on ist foie, a leaf. 
erived from the Latin Caper, or Capra, 
w t remarkably heal of the 
leaf. 
leaves x the honeysuc’ 
Woo 
ine—Latin, Penisiiisiace; ‘English, Honeysuckle. 
(See Johnson.) 
L. derived from t oa Greek PERIKLIMENON, 
Periclymenon, 
— he about, and KULEO, to ro 
iprifolium, in the tacycimedia designates a species 
called. Pale Perfoilate Honeysuckle, na ative 0 f Great Poe 
rms ee 
ering i y 0 r June, in En. ngland. Stem, shrubby, aisle: 
turning (Branches nearly opposite, round, h. Almostall 
the leaves are combined, elliptical, obtuse, ee ooth, 
— glaucous beneath ; the upper ones in ted perfoliate 
in ge Den ringent, 
wccie olored tube, very far 
wned by the almost calyx. 
"The N. American species jes of Caprifolium, the Covel eh 
_ Itis 
suckle, 
rminal, spread ing, inspite: with a 
Berries 0 orange-red, 
} 
scenes of ~ 
L, Peric 
5p 
colored, very fens and paral so, early in the 
Berries a five-toothed calyx. fgtrmeche 
eee a 
sweetish flavor 
ted, varie- 
dreosegy sho 
us Lonicera, . a five-cleft calyx, 
one petal, "bul; tube , gibbous; limb in 
which is more deeply separated. 
series oneucaa side 
Fiung sound the lattices its fragrant trumpets Landon. 
five rev 
