
190 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
TRUMPET HONEYSUCKLE. (Plate C.) 
Lonicéra sempérvirens. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Honeysuckle. Red, without ; Scentless. Mass. southward. May-October. 
yellow within. 
Flowers: axillary; clustered in spiked whorls. Calyx: five-toothed. Corolla: 
trumpet-shaped; five-lobed Stamens: five. Péstid: one. Fruit: a round, 
red berry. Leaves: opposite; oval; clasping at the base, the upper ones 
united about the stem ; glossy; thick; nearly evergreen. A shrub; climbing. 
This is one of the most unique of the family. The clasping 
leaves seem to be a series of difficulties through which the blos- 
soms have triumphantly passed. 
L. Japonica, Japanese honeysuckle, or woodbine, is the variety 
that is most frequently chosen for cultivation. Its blossoms 
are white, or yellow, and the tubular corolla is long, with pro- 
truding stamens and style. 
Few flowers can vie with it in delightful fragrance, and this 
has no doubt had much to do with the fondness that poets have 
felt for it. The name woodbine alludes to the way it has of 
entwining itself with some near object, “as though in wed- 
lock.” It gives freely as well as receives ; for the rock or 
tree that gives it support is made by it a bower of beauty. In 
climbing it turns from east to west, and for its home chooses 
the quietude of the rocky woodlands. 
BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. 
Diervilla Ditervilla. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Honeysuckle. Yellow, sometimes Fragrant. New England south- May, June. 
tinged with red. ward and westward. 
Flowers: axillary; growing in groups of threes at the summit of the stems. 
Calyx: small, with five very short teeth. Corolla: funnel-form; of five un- 
equal, recurved lobes, the larger one having a rich nectar-bearing gland at the 
base and being more highly coloured than the others. Stamens: five; pro- 
truding. sti: one; style, long ; protruding. Leaves: opposite; on petioles ; 
elliptical; serrated; smooth. A shrub two to four feet high; with highly col- 
oured bark. 
We may hardly flatter ourselves that the lower lobe of the co- 

