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THE HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



2. Perfoliate Honeysuckle. Lonicera Caprifolium, Linn. 



(Fig. 460.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 799.) 



Very much like the common H., but 

 quite glabrous ; the leaves broader, 

 the uppermost pair in the flowering 

 branches united at the base, and the 

 heads of flowers closely sessile within a 

 pair of leaves united into a singlebroadly- 

 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. 

 im/plexa and L. etrusca. Not truly w T ild 

 in Britain, but long since cultivated for 

 ornament, it has established itself in 

 some counties of England, and the south 



of Scotland so as to become almost naturalized. Fl. spring and early 



summer. 



Fig. 460. 



Fly Honeysuckle. Lonicera Xylosteum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 461.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 916.) 



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 \\ inches long. 

 Flowers of a pale yellowish-white, 

 downy and scentless, only 4 or 5 lines 

 long, hanging two together from short 

 axillary peduncles, with two small nar- 

 row 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 Bri- 

 tain, generally introduced from cultiva- 

 tion, but believed to be really indige- 



Fig. 461. 



