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and the small seeds. L. oblongifolia may be considered the American 

 representative of the Alpigenae of the Old World, but it is less closely 

 allied to that group than is L. oblongifolia to the Old World Rhodan- 

 thae. Both species differ from their allies in the caducous bracts and 

 the tendency of the bractlets to become obsolete." 



Lonicera oblongifolia was first described by John Goldie in 1822 as 

 Xylosteum oblongifolium 7, ; Hooker first characterized it as a Lonicera 

 in his Flora Borealis Americana in 1833. 4 The original description 

 which was kindly copied for the writer by Mr. Edward J. Nolan of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is as follows : 

 "Xylosteum oblongifolium ; baccis coadunatis, foliis oblongis lanceo- 

 latisque obtusis junioribus praecipue corollisque pubescentibus. " 



Habitat. — In one spot only in a swamp on the island of Montreal. 

 FL July. 



A shrub of about four feet in height, much branched, with pale 

 glabrous bark. Leaves lanceolate, and very pubescent on both sides 

 in the younger branches, oblong, obtuse, and only slightly pubescent 

 beneath in the older ones, veiny. Peduncles about an inch long. 

 Germens coadunate, producing two yellowish pubescent flowers. 

 Bracteas two, excessively minute, broadly ovate, appressed, and, as 

 well as the scarcely lobed calyx, glabrous. Berries red." 



Description of New Species. 

 Lonicera altissima sp. no v. 



Frutex gracilis erectus, 1.5-3.5 m - altus : cortice glabra cinerea : 

 rami's juvenibus subpurpureis : foliis oblanceolatis vel obovatis, vel 

 raro ovalibus, subdensis, marginibus revolutis utrinque glabris, supra 

 pallidulo-viridibus, nervis depressis, subtus pallidis, glaucis, acriter 

 reticulatis ; apice acutulo vel retuso plerumque mucronato ; basi 

 sensim angustata in petiolum valde brevem (1 mm. longum) margi- 

 natum, vel sessile : floribus 1.2-1.8 cm. longis, geminis ad apices 

 pedunculorum gracilium axillarium 2-3.2 cm. longorum ; bracteis et 

 lobis calycis plerumque in toto obsoletis ; corolla flava, extra sub- 

 purpurea, intra purpurea, ad basin gibbosa, glabra vel raro ad basin 

 subpubescente, bilabiata ad vel plerumque infra medium, lobis late 

 obtusis ; staminibus leviter exsertis, filamentis purpureis ad basin 



3 Goldie, John, fameson's Edinburg Philosophical fournal, 6 : 323, 1822. 

 * Hooker, Wm. J. "Flora Borealis Americana," I : 284, 1833. 



