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LONICERA* involucrata. 
Involucred Lonicera. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIACER. 
EONICERA Linn. (Xylosteon Moench.) — Calyx superus, 5-den- 
tatus, deciduus. Corolla infundibularis, limbo 5-partito erecto, basi sac- 
cata. Stamina 5. Ovarium triloculare, loculis omnibus pariter poly- 
spermis. Bacca succosa, bilocularis. Frutices erecti (Asice et Americe 
temperate) floribus roses albisve, viz odoratis. 
L. involucrata; foliis oblongis obtusis in basi acuminatis subtis pilosis, 
floribus didymis bracteis duabus magnis ovatis basi imbricantibus in- 
volucratis. 
Xylosteum involucratum. Richardson in Franklin's Appendix, p. 733. 
L. involucrata. Hb. Banks. Spreng. syst. 1. '759. 
Frutex demissus, 2-3-pedalis, ramis brevibus subtetragonis. Folia op- 
posita, oblonga, obtusa, in bast acuminata, inde quasi obovata, supra glabra, 
subtis subpilosa. Flores didymi, sessiles intra involucrum é bracteis duabus 
conflatum, longé pedunculatum ; pedunculis bracteatis. Bractew involucri, 
opposite, distincte, basibus imbricatis, ovate, subtis subpilose, florum longz- 
tudine ; bracteole due, exterioribus alterna, ovariis arcté applicite, glandu- 
lose, subrotund@, emarginate, queque verosimiliter ex duabus connatis. Flores 
sessiles, didymi, in sinu bractearum. Calyx margo deciduus. Corolla 
infundibularis, extis pilosa, basi saccata, limbo 5-partito, suberecto, inequali, 
lacinié. cui saccus pertinet, anteriore majore. Stamina 5, equalia, medio 
tubi inserta, laciniis limbi alterna ; filamenta jiliformia ; anthere lineares, 
innate, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium ovatum, liberum . 
& proximo, bi-v. 3-loculare, ovulis appensis, cuique loculo quatuor v. quinque. 
Stylus jiliformis, declinatus ; stigma capitatum, obscure bilobum, v. trilo- 
bum. Bacca nigra, 1-2-sperma, succosa, fetens. 
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This curious hardy shrub was sent, in 1824, to the 
Horticultural Society by William Williams, Esq., late 
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* Adam Lonicer, a Frankfort Botanist, was born in 1528, and died in 
1586. He published an ancient herbal, with corrections from the hand of 
Dorsten, and additions of his own, under the name of “ Krauterbuch,” 
which appeared in folio at Frankfort in 1573: a second edition was pub- 
lished in 1737, by Balthazar John Ehrhart. 
