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Hoot creeping. S!em 2 to 3 feet high ; branches smooth, often slightly quadran- 

 gular. Leaves 2 to 6 inches long, and 1 to 2 and an half inches wide, slightly pi. 

 fae on the midrib, and ciliate on the margin; petioles one fourth to half an inch 

 lonq. Peduncles in the axils of the superior leaves, half an inch to near an inch 

 h»n^, 2 to 3-flowered, bracteate at the base of the pedicels. Calyx ventricose be 

 low, with 2 minute subulate bracts at base ; segments subulate, kss than half the 

 lej^:h i.f the corolla. Corolla greenish yellow, slightly pubescent ; lobes (3, DC. 

 aud Hook ), oblong, unequal; throat somewhat dilated, pilose w ithin. Style longer 

 than the stamens, pilose below. Capsule contracted above, 1 celled, DC. Hosk. 

 ii celled, Am//. Torr). Seeds minute. 

 Ifab. Moist, rocky woodlands : frtqveni. Fl. June. />. Sop*. 



Obs. 'I hi? neat little shrub occurs more frequently than I formerly suppose)!. 

 It is the only specie* in the U. States. 



+ + Fruit a .Berry. 



120. LONICERA. L. DC. Fro Jr. 4. p. 330. 



[Dedicated to Adam Lonicer ; a German Botanist.] 



Culyx 5-toothcd. Corolla tubular, elongated, subcampanulate, or fun- 

 nel-form ; limb 5-cleft, mostly irregular. Stamens exserted. Style 

 ftliforra ; stigma capitate. Berry 3-celled ; cells few-seeded, Seeds 

 crustaceous. 



Shrubby: mostly with twining stems; leaves opposite, often connate at basej 

 flowers sessile, verticiilate, axillary, or in terminal heads. Nat. Ord. 191. Lirull. 

 Gaprifoliacej*. 



\, L. piRViFLORA, Lam. Glabrous; branches somewhat volubile ; 

 leaves deciduous, glaucous beneath, the upper pair connate-perfoliate, 

 large, lower ones subconnate ; flowers in terminal verticillate peduncu- 

 late heads ; corolla somewhat ringent ; tube short, gibbous at base ; fil- 

 aments bearded. Beck, Bot. p. 158. 



L. dioica. Willd. Sp. I. p. 983, Ait. Ke-w. 1. p. 377. J\Iuhl. Cat ml. 

 p. 23. 



Caprifolium bracteosum. Mx. Am. 1. p. 105. 



C. parviflorum. Fursh, Am. 1. p. 161. J\ m utt. Gen. 1. p. 138. EU. 

 Sh. I. p. 272. 

 G. dioicum. Lindl. Ency. p. 170. 



3mi.ll-vlow*iiki> Loxicera. Vulgo — Wild Honeysuckle. 



Stembxo 8 or 10 feet long, somewhat twining, terete, ash colored. Leaves 2 to 3 

 or 4 inches long, and 1 to 2 and a half inches wide, varying from ovate to oblong 

 and obovate -obl«>ng, obtuse, entire, very glaucous beneath, all sessile and mors or 

 Toss connate. Flatters generally in single terminal heads, of 2 or 3 verticils of ft 

 to 3 flowers each, on a common peduncle about an inch long (sometimes the head 

 fa nearly sessile). Corolla yellowish, with strong tinges of purple externally (yel- 

 1*W, Torr.) ; the tube about half an inch long, conspicuously gibbous near the base 

 on the lower side, hairy within, the gibbous portion lined with small glandular tu- 

 bercles ; the lower lip of 1 elliptic-oblong obtuse rcflexed lobe, the upper of 4 ere- 

 long obtuse recurved lobes. Stamens somewhat exserted, and hairy at base. Style 

 a little longer than the stamens. Berries reddish orange color when mature* 

 Seeds compressed, suborbicular, coated with a tawny scabrous-punctate shell. 



&0tb. Bank of the Schuylkill, at Black Rock ; rare. Fl. May. Fr. July. 

 <9K»- #*flctted fry 1. Towftvra^Esfl, fa 183*. 



