PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Lonicera: 309 
L. pericly'menum. Heads of flowers ovate, imbricated, terminal: 
leaves distinct, deciduous: blosson ringent. 
Curt. 1. 1—( E. Bot. 800. E.)— Kniph. 8— FI. Dan. 908 —Biv. 122— 
Blackw. 25— Fuchs. 646— Trdg. 822— J. B. ii. 104. 1— Ger. 743. 1— 
Dod. 411. 1 —Lob. Obs. 358. 1— Ger. Em. 891. 1 —Park. 1460. 1. 
(Stem woody, twining, and ascending. Branches opposite, cylindrical* 
Leaves opposite, on small leaf-stalks, oval, very entire, often slightly 
pubescent, glaucous underneath. FI. Brit. E.) Blossom, (red on the 
outside, and yellowish within ; in some varieties entirely buff-coloured ; 
E.) lower segment divided twice as deep as the rest. Leaves and 
stem smooth. Berries red, nauseous. 
Common Honeysuckle. Woodbine. (Irish: Dialler fehlin. Welsh: 
Gwyddfld : Llaeth y gaifr. Gaelic: An-iadh-shlait. E.) Hedges and 
thickets. S. May—July.* 
* The beauty and fragrance of its flowers render it a pleasing ornament to our 
gardens, hedges, and arbours, 
(“ O’er-canopied with luscious Woodbine : ” 
While it aspires to decorate the taller trees with its elegant festoons : 
“ The Woodbine , who her Elm in marriage meets. 
And brings her dowry in surrounding sweets.” Churchill. 
The leaves are so palatable to goats, that the French have named this plant Chevfe- 
feuille , Goat’s-leaf. E.) Cows and sheep eat it, horses refuse it. Sphinx LigustH 
and tipuliformis; Phalcena dydactila and hexadactyla; (and Limenilis Camilla , E.) 
feed upon it. (Mr. White states that its odoriferous exhalations after dusk attract the 
Sphynx ocellata , a vast moth flying with a humming noise, and inserting its proboscis 
into the tubular flowers, and extracting their nectar without settling on the plant ; thus 
feeding on the wing in the manner of the humming bird. The same fact is thus described 
by Mr. Phillips :—“ The tubular nectary secures the sweet liquid lying at the bottom from 
the reach of the industrious bee,” (and here again must poetic fiction, however interesting 
be the illusion, as 
“ Where the bee 
Strays diligent, and with the extracted balm 
Of fragrant Woodbine loads his little thigh,” 
succumb to sober truth : E.) “ but the hawk-moth hovers over these flowers in the evenings, 
and with its long tongue extracts the honey from the deepest recess (as do butterflies 
in the day time, by a like wonderful contrivance, as may more readily be observed. E.) 
Other insects tap the tubes of the flower, by making a puncture near the bottom, and 
then revel in the luxurious sweet.”—Happy the disposition which can derive mental im¬ 
provement from the contemplation of each varied production of nature ; enviable the feel¬ 
ing which can delight to connect with objects so pleasing as flowers the characters of 
those whom we love. The present.,-subject suggests to the amiable author of the 
“Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom,” an elegant emblematical compliment to her 
friend. “ Behold yourself,—in the fragrant Woodbine. Its scent may be compared to 
a fountain of affection, always flowing, always full. It is not the flower of a day, nor 
does the passing of a cloud occasion any difference ; but its sweets continue, and even* 
emit a richer perfume, when the heavy shower is descending.” p. 74. Ed. 2.—In the 
climate of Britain the vegetative season is characterized by three remarkable successions- 
of the most prevalent and admired gifts of our bounteous Flora. Spring is enlivened by 
the universally diffused May. This is succeeded by wreathes of Roses, which as profusely 
decorate our hedges, fit chaplets for the goddess in her meridian pride : then follow 7 , as 
tokens of the declining solstice, 
“ Copious of flowers, the Woodbine pale and wan ; 
But w 7 ell compensating her sickly looks 
With never cloying odours, early and late.” 
That “ the poet’s eye” should so rarely condescend to scientific accuracy, is to be re- 
