210 THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. [ Viburnum. 
In hedges and coppices, in Europe and Russian Asia, extending into the 
Arctic regions. In Britain, however, much less frequent in Scotland than 
in England and Ireland. Fl. summer, rather early. The G@uelder-Rose 
of our gardens is a variety, or, more properly speaking, a monstrosity, in 
which all the flowers are enlarged and barren, giving the cyme a globular 
shape. | 
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IV. LONICERA. HONEYSUCKLE. 
Shrubs, or tall climbers, with opposite entire leaves, and white, yellowish, 
pink, or red flowers, two or more together in terminal or axillary heads. 
Calyx with a border of 5 small teeth. Corolla with a more or less elongated 
tube, and an oblique limb either 5-lobed or in two lips, the upper one 4- 
lobed, the lower entire. Stamens 5. Style filiform, with a capitate stigma. 
Ovary 2- or 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell, Berry small, with 
one or very few seeds. | 
A considerable genus, spread over the temperate regions of Europe, Asia, 
and North America. It is really a natural one, and very readily distin- 
guished from the adjoining genera by the flowers, although the two prin- 
cipal groups into which it is separable, the climbing true Honeysuckles 
and the erect shrubby fly Honeysuckles, are at first sight rather dissimilar 
in aspect. 
Climbers. Flowers long, in terminal heads. 
All the leaves distinct at the base . 4 
MO TELO te ° . of hee Periclymenum. 
Leaves of the one or two uppermost pairs joined together at 
the base 
“ : j ; ; ° . ‘ : . 2. L, Caprifolium. 
Erect shrub. Flowers short, two together on short axillary 
peduncles . : ° . 4 ah Ane ovo . . 3. L, Xylosteum. 
Several exotic species of both sections are much cultivated in our gardens 
and shrubberies. 
1. G. Periclymenum, Linn. (fig. 464). Common Honeysuckle, Wood- 
bine.—A woody climber, scrambling over bushes and trees to a considerable 
height. Leaves ovate or oblong, glabrous above, usually slightly downy or 
hairy underneath ; the lower ones contracted at the base or stalked, the 
upper ones rounded and closely sessile, but not united. Flowers several 
together, closely sessile in terminal heads, which are always stalked above 
the last leaves. Corolla about 13 inches long. Berries small and red. 
In woods, thickets, and hedges, in western and central Europe, from 
southern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, but not extending eastward to 
the Russian frontier. Common in Britain, extending to its northern ex- 
tremity. £1. summer and autumn. | 
2. GL. Caprifolium, Linn. (fig. 465). Perfoliate -Honeysuckle.—Very 
much like LZ. Periclymenum, but quite glabrous; the leaves broader, the 
uppermost pairs in the flowering branches united at the base, and the heads 
of flowers closely sessile within a pair of leaves united into a single broadly 
rounded perfoliate leaf; or the flowers are sometimes separated into two 
tiers, with a perfoliate leaf under each. 
In hedges and woods in central and south-eastern Europe, and perhaps 
western Asia, but often confounded with the two common southern species, 
L. implexa and L. etrusca. . Not truly wild in Britain, but, long since cul-: 
tivated for ornament, it has established itself in some counties in England 
