( 1796 ) 



DlERVILLA HUM1LIS. YELLOW-FLOWERED 

 DlERVILLA. 



Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. oblongus, 5-fidus. Cor. calice duplo Iongior, infun- 

 dibuliformis, 5-fida, patens. Caps, oblonga, 4-locularis, 

 poJjsperma. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



Dieryilla hurailis. Persoon Syn. 1. p. 214. 



Diervilla Tourneforti ; Michaux Fl. Am. Bor. I. p. 1. 



p. 107. 

 Diervilla. Hort. Cliff. 63. t. 7. 

 Lonicera Diervilla ; racemis terminalibus, foliis serratis. 



Spec. PL 249. Willd. 1. p. 989. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 



v. 1. p. 850. Mart. Mill. Diet. Kniph. Cent. 9. n. 6. 

 Diervilla acadiensis fruticosa flore luteo. Tournef. in Act. 



Paris. 1706. t. l.f. 1. MiUer Ic. t. 124. (errore 125.) 



Duham. arb. 1. p. 209. t. 87. Schmidt arb. t. 116. 



Boerh. Lugd. Bat. 1. p. 277. 

 Diervilla canadensis. Willd. Enum. 1. 222. 

 Diervilla lutea ; pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus 



dichotomis trifloris, foliis ovatis serratis acuminatis. Pursh 



Fl. Amer. Sept. \.p. \ 62. 



This plant was first brought to Europe from Acadie, as 

 the French at that time called Nova-Scotia, by Mons. 

 Dierville, surgeon, in commemoration of whom Tourne- 

 fort named it. The genus was taken up by Linn^us in 

 his Hortus Cliffortianus ; but afterwards united by him to 

 Lonicera, a union soon after objected to by Miller, from 



its 



