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Woods and hedges, especially in a chalky or limestone soil. Dunglass 
glen, Scotland. Ij . 5, 6. — A large shrub, much branched, the 
young shoots very downy. Flowers in large dense cymes, white. 
Cal.-teeth very minute. Berry purplish-black. 
2. V. O'pvlus L. ( common G.) ; leaves glabrous 3 — 5-lobed, 
lobes acuminate and serrate, petioles with glands. E. B. t. 332. 
Woods and coppices, not unfrequent in England and Scotland, 
b . 6,7. — A small tree, very glabrous. Leaves large, subcordate 
broad. Cymes large, with white flowers ; the perfect ones small and 
resembling the last; abortive ones in the circumference, consisting 
of a very large, plane, 5-lobed corolla, without either stamens or pistil. 
Flowers erect. Berries reddish-purple, drooping. 
3. Loni'cera Linn. Honey-suckle. 
Cal.-limb small, 5-toothed. Cor. tubular or somewhat funnel- 
shaped, the limb irregular, 5-eleft. Stam. 5. Style filiform. 
Stigma capitate. Berry 1 — 3-celled, few-seeded. — Named in 
honour of Adam Lonicer, a German botanist. 
1. L. * Caprifolium L. ( pale perfoliate II.) ; flowers ringent 
whorled terminal sessile, leaves deciduous glabrous obtuse, 
upper ones connate perfoliate, style glabrous. E. B. t. 799. 
Woods and thickets rare. Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire. In 
Colinton woods and on Corstorphine hill near Edinburgh, and in 
hedges at Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire. Tj. 5,6. — Berries smooth, 
of an orange-colour. 
2. L. Periclymenum L. ( common II., or Woodbine) ; heads 
stalked, flowers ringent capitate terminal, leaves all distinct 
deciduous oval. E. B. t. 800. 
Frequent in woods and hedges. Tj. 6 — 9. — Berries red. 
3. L. *Xylosleum L. ( upright Fly H.) ; peduncles 2-flowered 
downy as long as the flowers, berries distinct except at the 
base, calyx-limb deciduous, leaves ovate entire downy. E. B. 
t. 916. 
Thickets. Hertfordshire. Near Sewing Shields, Northumberland. 
Houghton Bridge, near Arundel, Sussex. T?. 5,6. — An erect 
shrub, with pale, yellowish, small, scentless, flowers, succeeded by 
bright scarlet berries. There being no allied species in this country, 
we can scarcely suppose that this has not been accidentally natura- 
lized by man or birds. 
4. Linne'a Gronov. Linnaea. 
Cal.-limb 5-cleft. Cor. campanulate, 5-cleft, equal. Stam. 
4, didynamous. Fruit a dry, 3-celled berry , with one cell only 
bearing a perfect seed. Involucre of about 4 leaves at the base 
of the germen. — Name. It was this “little northern plant 
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