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tember and October. Large orchards of Elders are cultivated in 
Kent for the purpose of making wine from their fruit. The 
flowers are also distilled with water and alcohol, and yield a per- 
fumed liquid known as elder-flower water, much approved for the 
toilet, and in confectionary. 
The Guelder Rose and the Laburnum have a fine effect in a 
well-arranged shrubbery, the balls of white blossom of the first 
contrasting beautifully with the rich yellow clusters of the latter. 
The Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) is also the Woodbine 
of the poets, the “ twisted Eglantine”’ of Milton and of Shakespeare, 
who combines them in one stanza— 
**So doth the Macrae on — honeysuckle, 
ently entwist the 
In many green lanes in Britain ss sweet-scented climber may 
be observed encircling the stem of some young tree, which bears 
indelible marks of its friendly embrace as it winds round the stem 
from left to right. The bright red, or rather crimson, berries 
of the Honeysuckle succeed the fragrant verticiles of flowers, 
equalling them in beauty. 
Linnea is a lowly slick the name of which was changed from 
Nummularia, at the request of the great Botanist, to commemorate 
his own name. “Its lonely, depressed growth,” he said, “was a 
fitting emblem of his own early fate.” It is found in Fir woods in 
the North of England and Scotland, and also in the northern 
regions of Europe, distinguished by its slender, trailing stem, and 
drooping flowers of pale purplish’ rose colour, and something 
between a bell and funnel shaped corolla. 
UMBELLIFERS. 
The polypetalous corolla, dichlamydeous flowers, inferior fruit, 
and large solitary seed, and small embryo lying in a large quan- 
tity of albumen, are the distinctive characters of the Umbelliferous 
exogens. 
Herbaceous, rarely shrubby ts, with solid and cylindrical, 
sometimes gp and Turrowe stem ; comps pee we Eggo oppo- 
site or en metimes s! eathing at th lowers in f 
umbels, generally a tb ai involucre Soalyx, aeeten <= ad- CCXCVI. Umbellifere. 
hering to the five petals; stamens five, inserted 
yx; fruit, 
enna with the an ca top 0 ‘lbs Amoi car- 
pels, separating into two parts near the base ; 
