HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Caprifoliaccae. 
HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. Caprifoliaceae. 
Not a large family, mestly of the northern hemisphere; 
herbs, shrubs, shrubby vines or trees; leaves opposite, 
usually without stipules; flowers perfect, regular or irregu- 
lar; calyx with three to five divisions; corolla usually with 
five united lobes, sometimes two-lipped; stamens on the 
corolla tube, usually as many as its lobes and alternate 
with them; ovary inferior, with one style; fruit a berry, 
stone-fruit, or capsule. 
There are many kinds of Lonicera, shrubs, or twining 
woody vines; leaves usually without teeth or lobes, the 
upper ones sometimes united around the stem; flowers 
usually irregular; calyx with five, minute teeth; corolla 
more or less funnel-shaped, often two-lipped, four lobes 
forming the upper lip and one lobe the under, tube often 
swollen at base; stamens five; style with a cap-like stigma; 
fruit berrylike. 
A climbing or trailing shrub, with 
brilliant flowers, set off by bright green 
leaves, thin in texture, with pale “‘bloom”’ 
Orange Honey- 
suckle 
Lonicéra ciliosa 
Orange and on the under side and usually hairy 
scarlet margins, the lower ones with short leaf- 
Summer : 
=e stalks, the upper usually united and 
forming a disk. The flowers are scentless, 
about an inch and a quarter long, with smooth, trumpet- 
shaped corollas, bright orange at base, shading to scarlet 
above, with a bright green stigma and crimson or brownish 
anthers. This lives in the woods and sometimes climbs to 
the tops of quite tall trees, ornamenting them with its 
splendid clusters of flowers and sprinkling the forest floor 
with its fallen blossoms in a shower of scarlet and gold. 
A bush, from three to seven feet high, 
Black Twinb . > 
ack Twinberry with thick, woody, pale gray stems and 
Lonicéra ried. nie 
involucrata bright green leaves, glossy and thin in 
Yellow texture, or rather coarse and hairy, with 
Spring, summer 
fine hairs along the margins. The flower- 
West 
stalks each bear a pair of flowers, without 
scent, emerging from an involucre of two bracts. The 
corolla is rather hairy and sticky, half an inch or more 
long, a pretty shade of warm dull yellow, sometimes 
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