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Flowers in pairs. The corolla is of a pale greenish yellow, 
with a slight projection on one side of the tube. Berries in 
pairs, diverging, egg-shaped, red, one fourth of an inch long. 
The flowers are in twos, on a long footstalk, with two, slender, 
short, thread-like bracts at the base of each. 
Sp. 2. Tue Harry Fry Honeysucure. JZ. cerulea. L. 
A rough looking bush, from one to four feet high, with crowd- 
ed, opposite, diverging branches, growing in bogs in the western 
part of the State. The leaves come out with the flowers. The 
flowers are on short stems, with long, slender bracts at the base 
of the calyx. From one calyx proceed two yellow corollas, 
bulging considerably outwards at the base of the tube, which 
ends in oblong, erect lobes. The leaves are oval or oblong, 
rough on both surfaces when young, but becoming smooth 
above when old. The berries, which are made up of two 
united ovaries, are blue, covered with a glaucous bloom. 
XVII 4. THE BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. DIE RVILLA. 
TTournefort. 
A genus of three or four species of erect shrubs, indigenous 
to North America and Japan, with opposite, ovate, acuminate, 
sharply serrate leaves, on short stems, with axillary flowers, 
two, three, or four on a stem, with two bracts at base. ‘The 
calyx-tube is cylindrical, and contracted at the summit; the 
ovary is two-celled, crowned with a fleshy disk, which fills the 
throat of the calyx; the fruit a crustaceous or leathery capsule, 
with two cells, two valves, and many seeds. 
Tue THREE-FLOWERED Busou Honeysucstz. JD. trifida. Mcench. 
A bush from two to four feet high, with a root somewhat creep- 
ing and horizontal, throwing up erect shoots. A projecting ridge 
running down at equal distances on the four sides of the stem, 
gives it a somewhat four-sided appearance. ‘The recent shoots 
are green or reddish green, with the projection very conspicuous 
between the leaves. The stemis gray. The leaves are oppo- 
site, on short footstalks, ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded or acute 
