HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 
( Caprifoliacece) 
(A) Bush Honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis) is a 
bush or shrub with thin, straggling, brown branches, 
attaining heights of 2 to 4 feet. The leaves are thin, 
light green, somewhat heart-shaped and short stemmed. 
They grow oppositely on the branches and have small 
stipules between them. The flowers are borne in pairs 
from the axils of the terminal leaves. The Naples yel¬ 
low tubes are about three fourths of an inch in length 
and have five lobes. This species is common from Que¬ 
bec to Manitoba and south to Pa. and Mich. 
(B) Twinflower (Linncea borealis americana) is one 
of the most delicately beautiful of our wild flowers. 
The stem is slender, trailing, reddish-brown and from 
G to 24 inches long; at intervals very slender, leafy 
flower stalks rise, bearing at the end, two pendulous, 
bell-shaped, white, fragrant blossoms; the corolla, which 
has five lobes, is crimson pink within. The evergreen 
leaves are short-stemmed, almost round and scallop¬ 
toothed. Cool mossy woods from Lab. to Minn. 
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