
192 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL, 
rolla of D. Diervilla has been’so highly coloured simply to please 
our artistic sense. It is to inform Master Bee that they are a 
rich family worthy of his attention, and that they have a gland 
full of nectar awaiting him. Of course, in inviting him thus 
cordially to their feast, he is supposed to return the civility by 
leaving for them a little package of pollen at a friend’s house 
on his way home. But Master Bee, like the rest of us, has his 
moods, and when he is feeling very wicked he just pierces the 
gland from the outside with his sharp little bill, and calmly sips 
away without so much as a “ thank you” in return. 
TWIN-FLOWER. (Late CZ) 
Linnea borealis. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Honeysuckle. Rose. Fragrant, like almonds. * Mostly north. june. 
Flowers : terminal in pairs; nodding ; borne on individual thread-like flower- 
stalks that terminate in a common peduncle. Ca/yx: small ; five-toothed. 
Corolla: bell-shaped, with five rounded lobes; hairy within. Stamens: four ; 
two longer than the others. /yst#/: one; protruding. Leaves: opposite; on 
petioles ; round ; shining, evergreen; rising from the stem. Svem : trailing; 
decumbent. 
The serene sweetness of these little twin blossoms has at- 
tracted to them many lovers. Linnzeus, with his abundant 
knowledge of the flowers, loved them better than any other and 
Gronovius bestowed upon them his family name. It would 
seem as though they exhaled the helpful love of a brother and 
sister which blooms with refreshed vigour every springtime. 
The following tale is told of Linnzus in connection with his 
fondness for them. 
A friend gathering a small flower on the shore of a Swedish 
lake asked the great botanist if it were L. borealis. 
“ Nay,” said the philosopher, “she lives not here, but in the 
middle of our largest woods. She clings with her little arms 
to the moss, and seems to resist very gently if you force her 
from it. She has a complexion like the milk-maid ; and oh! 
she is very, very sweet and agreeable.” 


