310 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Jasione. 
Var. 2. Leaves indented. 
In the woods of Lord Wodehouse, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. 
(A singular variety is described by M. M. Konig and Van Hall in the 
“ Bydragen tot de Natuurkund,” in which the stamens have been trans¬ 
formed into a second blossom. E.) 
L. xylosteum. Fruit-stalks two-flowered: berries distinct: leaves 
very entire, pubescent. 
(E. Bot. 916. E.)— Riv. Mon . 120 —FI Dan. 808 —Clus. 58. 1 —Loh. Ic. 
633. 2— Dod. 412. 1— Ger. Em. 1294. 1. 
A shrub six to eight feet high. ( Stem upright. E.) Leaves mostly egg- 
shaped, in opposite pairs, three pairs on each branch ; rather soft and 
cloth-like to the touch. Fruit stalks opposite, axillary. Blossom yellow¬ 
ish, scentless ; upper lip four-cleft, lower lip strap-shaped, entire. Fila¬ 
ments woolly. ( Berries scarlet, oval, rarely ripening. E.) 
Upright Fly Honeysuckle. Plentiful and certainly wild in a coppice 
called the Hacketts, to the east of Houghton Bridge, four miles from 
Arundel. Mr. W. Borrer. In the wood on the south-west side of the lake 
in Edgbaston Park, near Birmingham, which, however, must be admitted 
to partake too much of the character of an artificial plantation. L. Xy¬ 
losteum, originally introduced on the authority of Wallis as growing on 
the rocks of Shewing Shields, Northumberland, though its pretensions 
to be considered indigenous may be but slender, seems to have become 
naturalized in Britain. Mr. Winch observed it in hedges south of 
Alnwick, and in the Cocken woods. E.) S. May.* * 
JASIO'NE. Common calyx ten-leaved : Bloss. five petals, (or 
deep segments. E.), regularly wheel-shaped : Anthers 
united at the base: Caps, beneath; imperfectly two- 
celled, many-seeded, opening at the top, crowned by the 
proper quinque-dentate calyx. 
J. monta'na. Leaves strap-shaped, very entire. 
gretted. Milton’s error in confounding our plant with a Rose, is rendered the more 
palpable by an unfortunate epithet;— 
“ And at my window bid good-morrow, 
Through the Sweet-briar, or the Vine, 
Or the twisted Eglantine % ” 
but from such an imputation, even though reiterated by a Botanist, (Curtis), it is especially 
incumbent on us, who have breathed the same natal air with the great dramatist, to rescue 
his consistency. The words of Shakespeare are, (ndt, as misquoted in the above authority, 
“ So doth the Woodbine , the sweet Honeysuckle 
Gently entwist■ ... . 
but) 
c: —— So doth the Woodbine , the sweet Honeysuckle , 
[evidently synonymous,] 
Gently entwist the Maple.” Vid. Warburton. E.) 
* In the north of Europe it seems a common plant. Linnaeus informs us it makes 
excellent garden hedges in a dry soil: that the clear parts between the joints of the shoots 
are used in Sweden as tubes for tobacco pipes, and that the wood, being extremely hard, 
makes teeth for rakes, &c. {Lasiobotrys Lonicertz, Grev. Scot. Crypt. 1.91 : “ Perithecia 
even, very crowded, black, the radicating filaments simple,” originates beneath the epi¬ 
dermis of the living leaf of the different species. E.) 
