No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 365 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE. HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



DIERVILLA Adans. Bush Honeysuckle. 

 Diervilla Lonicera Mill, (like Lonicera, the Honeysuckle). 

 Diervilla trifida Moench. 

 Diervilla Diervilla MacM. 

 Bush Honeysuckle. 



Frequent. Dry or moist woods and on banks. May — 

 July. 



Medicinal. 



LONICERA L. Honeysuckle. 

 Lonicera caerulea L. (sky-blue), var. villosa (Michx.) Torr. 



& Gray (hairy). 

 Lonicera caerulea of Gray's Manual ed. 6, not L. 

 Mountain Fly Honeysuckle. 



Swamps and low or rocky pastures and thickets. Plain-. 

 ville (J. N. Bishop), Griswold and Voluntown (Graves) ; 

 and occasional or even common in northeastern Connecticut, 

 where it is sometimes troublesome in pastures and is locally 

 known as Hardback. May — June ; fruit June — July. 



The berries are edible, resembling the blueberry in flavor. 



Lonicera tatarica L. 



Tartarian Honeysuckle. 



Rare. Roadsides as an escape from cultivation : Fairfield 

 (Fames), Redding (Eames & C. C. Godfrey), Cornwall (H. 

 S. Clark & Bissell). May. Introduced from Asia. 



Lonicera canadensis Marsh. 

 Lonicera ciliata Muhl. 

 American Fly Honeysuckle. 



Dry rocky woods. Old Lyme (Graves), North Branford 

 (A. W. Evans), Middletown (L. N. Johnson), Meriden 

 (Eaton Herb.), and occasional in Litchfield County. May; 

 fruit June. 



Lonicera Xylosteum L. (bone-wood ; referring to the hardness 

 of the wood). 

 European Fly Honeysuckle. 



Rare. Westport, escaped from cultivation to a roadside 



