3o8 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. XIV, No. 6, 



Linnaea L. 



Small creeping rather woody herbs; leaves evergreen, petioled, 

 obovate to orbicular; flowers in pairs, long peduncled, pink or 

 purple, bisporangiate, campanulate to funnelformed, actinonior- 

 phic; andrecium pentamerous, united with the base of the corolla, 

 included; ovulary 3-locular, one cavity containing a perfect ovule 

 while the others have several rudimentary ovules; fruit almost 

 globose, containing a single long seed. 



1. Linnaea americana Forbes. American Twinflower. 

 Branches woody, slender, somewhat pubescent, trailing; leaves 

 J to ^ inch long, i to f inch wide, usually somewhat crenate, 

 slender, petioled, erect; peduncles about 3 inches long, 2-bract- 

 eolate at the tip; flowers funnelform, fragrant, f to | inch long; 

 ovulary subtented by two glandular ovate scales which often 

 cover the fruit and are attached to it. In cool places. Stark 

 County. 



Dier villa [Tourn.] Mill. Bush-honeysuckle. 



Shrubs with opposite leaves and yellow cymose or solitary 

 bisporangiate flowers; corolla narrow funnelform, nearly actino- 

 morphic, base somewhat gibbous; calyx tube slender narrow below; 

 stamens five, anthers linear, o\ailary bilocular; ovules many, seed 

 coat minutely reticulate; fruit a glabrous, slender, beaked, septi- 

 cidal, many seeded capsule; embryo minute. 



1. Diervilla diervilla (L.) MacM. Bush-honeysuckle. A 

 shrub 1^ to 3 feet high; branches glabrous or nearly so, terete 

 usually with two pubescent ridges; leaves short petioled, ovate to 

 obovate, acuminate, irregularly crenate, sometimes slightly 

 cilia te; flowers terminal or in upper axils in 1-5-flowered clusters; 

 corolla about f inch long, pubescent, \^ery slightly 2-lipped. In 

 rocky dry woods. Lucas, Lorain, Summit, Wayne, Stark, 

 Frankhn. 



Date of PublicatiDn, April 24, 1914. 



