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lous), but deeply cleft as if formed of four or five separate petals ; 
the calyx is attached to the ovary. The fruit is usually a berry, 
bearing the calyx ou its summit, and the leaves are always opposite, 
Three species of Honeysuckle grow wild in Britain. The Common. 
Woodbine or Honeysuckle of the woods, Lonicera peryclt/menum, is 
MONOPETALOTTS FLOWEE OF COMMON HONEYSUCKLE. 
a, corolla ; b. calyx ; c, stamens ; d, pistil. 
too well known to need description. It is one of the first trees to 
unfold its leaves, and it wreathes the dark holly and the grey 
branches of the elm all the summer long with its elegant wreaths of 
flowers. It is the “ woodbine ” of Shakespeare, and with him the 
companion of the wild rose. 
“ I know a bank whereon the wild thyme grows, 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet blows, 
Quite over canopied with luscious woodbine, 
With sweet musk roses and with eglantine.” 
Chaucer refers to the same plants under the names woobine 
and eglantine ; but Milton uses “ twisted eglantine ” for the sweet 
brier rose. The dull red berries of the plant have a very poisonous 
look kite in the summer, when they become numerous ; they are, 
however, equally harmless and useless. The Perfoliate Honey- 
suckle, L. cuprifolium, is equally beautiful, but the flowers are paler 
in colour and the berries are of a bright orange colour. When met 
with, this may be distinguished by the twofold leaf, or, as the 
botanist would say, connate leaves immediately beneath the flowers. 
This belongs to the woods of the east coast, suggesting the proba- 
bility of its having been introduced from Northern Europe. The 
Fly Honeysuckle, L. ccylosteum, is still more scarce. It lias egg- 
