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flowering early," which Linnaeus himself selected as therefore 

 most appropriate to transmit his name to posterity. — Fl. July. 

 Perennial. 



5. Lonicera (Honeysuckle). — Erect, prostrate or twining 

 shrubs ; leaves exstipulate, entire, sometimes connate ; flowers 

 generally in cymose heads, sometimes united by their ovaries ; 

 sepals 5 ; petals 5, united in a tubular or funnel-shaped corolla 

 with a bilabiate limb ; stamens 5 ; berry of 2 or 3 several- seeded 



linn^a boreXlis (Lintuea). 



chambers. (Named in honour of Adam Lonicer, a German 

 botanist.) 



1. L. Peridymenum (Honeysuckle, Woodbine). — Stem twining; 

 leaves ovate or oblong, glabrous or slightly pubescent, glaucous 

 below, not united at the base, sometimes lobed ; flowers in stalked 

 terminal heads, gaping, red outside, yellow within, very fragrant; 

 berry globose, translucent, crimson. A common and favourite 

 twining shrub, the first to expand its leaves in spring, or rather in 

 winter, and almost the last to blossom in autumn. Though 

 highly ornamental to our woods, it is decidedly injurious to 



