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and the south of Scotland, so as to'become almost naturalized. Ll, spring 
and early summer. 
3. L. Xylosteum, Linn. (fig. 466). ly Honeysuckle.—An erect, much 
branched shrub, 3 or 4 feet high, of a pale green, and downy in all its parts. 
Leaves ovate, entire, and stalked, about 1} inches long. Flowers of a pale- 
yellowish white, downy and scentless, only 4 or 5 lines Jong, hanging two 
together from short, axillary peduncles, with two small narrow bracts close 
under them. Berries bright scarlet, with 2 or 3 seeds in each. 
In thickets and hedges, almost all over Europe and Russian Asia, ex- 
tending northward to the Arctic Circle. Dispersed over various parts of 
Britain, generally introduced from cultivation, but believed to be really 
indigenous in some parts of south-eastern England. It is very common in 
our shrubberies. £7. early summer. 
; V. LINNZEGA. LINNEA. 
Calyx with a border of 5 teeth. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, narrowed 
at the base into a short tube. Stamens 4. 
A genus of a single species, dedicated to the great master of natural 
science, with whom it was an especial favourite. 
1. &. borealis, Gronov. (fig. 467). Northern Linnea.—A slender ever- 
green, creeping and trailing along the ground to the length of a foot or 
more. Leaves opposite, small, broadly ovate or obovate, and slightly toothed 
at the top. Flowering branches short and erect, with 2 or 3 pairs of leaves, 
and terminated ky a long slender peduncle branched near the top into 
2 pedicels, each bearing an elegant, gracefully drooping, and fragrant flower 
of a pale pink or white colour, above 5 lines long. Ovary globular and very 
hairy, the rest of the plant more or less covered with a very minute glan- 
dular down, or sometimes quite glabrous. 
In woods, or rarely in more open rocky situations, in northern Europe 
and Asia, and some parts of North America, reappearing in the mountain 
districts of central Europe, even on the southern side of the Alps. In 
Britain confined to the fir-woods of some of the midland and eastern 
counties of Scotland, and to a few localities in Yorkshire and Northumberland. 
Fl. summer. 
XL. STELLATA. THE STELLATE TRIBE. 
(A tribe of Rubiaceae.) 
Herbs, with angular stems, and entire leaves in whorls of 
4, 6, or 8 (that is, apparently so, for two opposite ones only 
of each whorl are real leaves with buds in their axils, the 
others, although precisely similar, are in fact stipules), rarely 
2 only, the buds and branches always opposite. Flowers small, 
in terminal or rarely axillary panicles or heads. Calyx com- 
bined with the ovary, either entirely so or rarely with a border 
of 4 or 5 teeth. Corolla monopetalous, with 4 or 5 spreading 
lobes. Stamens as many, inserted in the tube. Ovary inferior, 
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