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IV. HONEYSUCKLE. LONICERA. 



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 

 distinguished from the adjoining genera by the flowers, although the 

 two principal 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 1. Common H. 



Leaves of the one or two uppermost pairs joined to- 

 gether at the base 2. Perfoliate H. 



Erect shrub. Flowers short, two together on short 



axillary peduncles 3. Fly H. 



Several exotic species of both sections are much cultivated in our 

 gardens and shrubberies. 



1. Common Honeysuckle. Lonicera Periclymenum, Linn. 



(Fig. 459.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 800. Woodbine.) 



A woody climber, scrambling over 

 bushes and trees to a considerable 

 height. Leaves ovate or oblong, gla- 

 brous above, usually slightly downy or 

 hairy underneath ; the lower ones con- 

 tracted at the base or stalked, the upper 

 ones rounded and closely sessile, but not 

 united. Flowers several together, closely 

 sessilein terminal heads, which are always 

 stalked above the lastleaves. Corollaabout 

 1^ inches long. Berries small and red. 



In woods, thickets, and hedges, in 

 western and central Europe, from south- 

 ern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, 

 but not extending eastward to the Rus- 

 sian frontier. Common in Britain, ex- 

 tending to its northern extremity. Fl. 

 summer and autumn. Fig. 459. 



