358 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
what larger and separate. It isofa rich scarlet without, tinged 
with orange within, and on the stamens, which are slightly pro- 
jecting. The flowers are terminal and in rather distant whorls, 
on long footstalks. 
The uppermost or two uppermost pairs of leaves are connate, 
forming a round or oblong leaf, through the centre of which 
passes the stem. The next leaves are four or five inches long 
and two or three broad. The lower ones much more narrow 
but often longer. They are ovate-oblong, or elliptic, smooth, 
glaucous beneath. Recent shoots green. Stem gray, rough, 
the bark separating in long, fibrous scales. 
The pant grows rapidly, throws out a multitude of branches, 
and has a singularly rich appearance, from the dcep green of 
its leaves and the splendor of its scarlet flowers. 
The second section includes erect or climbing planis, with 
flowers in the axils of the leaves, berries in pairs, distinct or 
united, not crowned with the limb of the calyx, and with leaves 
which are never connate; Xyléstewm of Jussieu. ‘The most 
beautiful and fragrant of this division is the Chinese or Japan 
Honeysuckle, £. Chinensis, not generally introduced, but as 
well deserving to be cultivated as any species whatever. 
Four species are found in North America, two of them in 
Massachusetts. Both have two minute bracts at the summit of 
the flower-stalk. 
Sp. 1. Tue Fry Honeysucerr. JL. cilidfa. Muhlenberg. 
A shrub five or six feet high, with a few straggling branches, 
erowing among rocks and in wet places in Essex woods. The 
stem is round, slightly ridged by a line running down from 
the base of each of the branches, giving it an angvlar appear- 
ance. Bark striated, roughish, of a grayish ash color, clouded 
with brown. Branches opposite. forming a laige angle. Leaves 
opposite, on very short, somewhat hairy stalks, broad ovate, or 
lanceolate, sometimes heart-shaped, entire, pointed, of a soft 
green above, paler beneath, substance soft and leathery. Wood 
soft, greenish white, very tough when young. Pith white, 
abundant, in small stems, occupying nearly half the diameter. 
