356 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
XVI. 3. THE HONEYSUCKLE. ZLONICERA. UL. 
A genus of climbing or erect shrubs with opposite branches, 
and leaves entire, opposite, and often growing together at base. 
The flowers, which are often fragrant, are in sessile whorls or 
heads, or on fuotstalks, in the axils of the leaves. ‘The species 
are divided by De Candolle into two sections. 
The first section embraces climbing plants with sessile flow- 
ers in whorled clusters or heads, and with leaves often connate ; 
the berries crowned with the persistent limb of the calyx, form- 
ing the genus Caprifolium of Jussieu. 
Among these are the splendid Scarter Honeysuckie or 
Trumpet HoneysuckLe, which has been very generally intro- 
duced and found almost perfectly hardy, although it is a native 
of the Southern States, and not found naturally growing north 
of New York, and ten other species, according to Torrey and 
Gray, natives of North America, of which the following belong 
to Massachusetts. 
Sp. 1. Tse Harry Honeysucete. LL. hirsitea. Taton. 
A perfectly hardy, climbing plant, found on damp, rocky 
banks, often growing to the height of fifteen or even thirty feet. 
Recent shoots reddish green, somewhat downy, or often nearly 
smooth. Branches reddish. Leaves on short, broad footstalls, 
which, in the upper leaves, are winged, and embracing the stem. 
The leaves are large, very broad-lanceolate or elliptic, or obovate, 
the upper ones pointed, the lower entire, rounded, sometimes 
rugose, from impressed veins above, ciliate on the reflexcd mar- 
gin, glaucous and soft, downy and hairy beneath. The upper 
pair completely grow together at base, like the upper leaves in 
other honeysuckles. They terminate in an abruptly prolonged 
point, and are ciliate on the margin, and hairy on the mid-rib 
beneath; but in surface and texture are so entirely unlike the 
other leaves, that they are more properly considered as connate 
bracts. The flowers are in single or triple terminal heads, 
made of from one to three or more whorls, on short footstalks: 
each whorl consists of about six sessile flowers. Calyx of five 
