. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. BLUE FLAG. PtATB 3. IRIS VERSICOLOR. (IRIS FAMILY.) I^ttmnial, wkoie plant smooth ; rootitotts tontta^ttd rsonified the rainbow. The we[<lth of color displayed by these flowers well merits the name. They are veritable rainbows of the earth. Versicolor means "of varied ; So the generic and specific names express pretty much (he same =»? Sfe FLY-HONEYSUCKLE. PLATE 4. LONICERA CILIATA. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) mm Shrub, branching itnlh gray bark leaves oiate, sometimes
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. BLUE FLAG. PtATB 3. IRIS VERSICOLOR. (IRIS FAMILY.) I^ttmnial, wkoie plant smooth ; rootitotts tontta^ttd rsonified the rainbow. The we[<lth of color displayed by these flowers well merits the name. They are veritable rainbows of the earth. Versicolor means "of varied ; So the generic and specific names express pretty much (he same =»? Sfe FLY-HONEYSUCKLE. PLATE 4. LONICERA CILIATA. (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY.) mm Shrub, branching itnlh gray bark leaves oiate, sometimes cordate, petioled. matgim ciliate (/ringed with kairs\ flowers in twos on slender peduncles that spring ' om the aseits of tht ttavet; corolla ^tr^oied, funnel-shapi d, i- colttr; fruit a red berry. • HIS pretty little shrub grows usually in damp, rocky woods. It is a northern plant, not occurring south of Pennsylvania and extending westward to Minnesota. The graceful twin flowers appear usually in May, before the leaves are quite developed. They are not unlike those of its cousins, the Linna'a, in theii general form : but are ronsidernbly larger and of a difltrent color. The corolla has a iihort spur at the base, prcjccting outward, givinp t'le flower an attractively odd look. Each flower produces a light-red, egg-shaped lierry, the flesh of which is watery and insipid. The two beiTiS on the saue stalk dc not grow together as in some nearly related species The fly-honeysuckle, although closely relatetl to the common woodbines and honeysuckles of tue gardens, is quite different in general appearance and habit. A observer would hardly the relationshi,). Even the flowers, with their wide-moutl>e<l and regular corollas, do not. at first sight, .seem to resemble the long, tubular flowers of the cultivated honeysuckles. The latter are, moreover, deeply and irregularly two-lipped. Lonicera was named for I/jnitzer or Umicerus, one of
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