Honeysuckle or woodbine.

Lonicera periclymenum.- Corolla

tubular, two-lipped. Flowers in heads. June-October.

Linnæa.

"Copious of flowers, the woodbine pale and wan,

But well compensating her sickly looks

With never-cloying odours, early and late."

Linnæa borealis.-A humble little northern flower, selected by Linnæus to bear his name. Trailing. Small bell-shaped drooping flowers, agreeably scented. Fir woods in northern countries. July.

OBSERVATIONS.

The most interesting plant of this family is certainly the honeysuckle, associated with many others that cluster around the familiar and endeared scenes of home and rural life.

"Wound in the hedge-row's oaken boughs,

The woodbine's tassels float in air;

And blushing, the uncultured rose

Hangs high her beauteous blossoms there."

It often becomes associated with the ivy, with which it has some natural affinity in structure.

"I sat me down to watch upon a bank,

With ivy canopied and interwove,

And flaunting honeysuckle."

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