10 CAPRIFOLIACE^. Lonicera. 



tose; limb of the calyx mostly ciliate.— L. velutina, DC! I. c. Xylosteum 

 villosum, Michx. ! jl. 1. p. 106. 



Woods and on rocks, Labrador ! and Newfoundland ! to the Rocky 

 Mountains in British America, and north to lat. 66°, extending south to the 

 mountains or mountainous districts of Massachusetts! and New York! /?. 

 Hudson's Bay, Mi c/; a u.r / Newtbundland, Pi/iaic/ May. — Shrub 1-4 feet 

 hi^h; the younger branches mostly villous. Leaves an inch or less in 

 length. Corolla" yellow, about half an inch long, either glabrous or hairy, 

 longer than the peduncles; the lobes longer than the tube, oblong, erect. 

 Stamens scarcely exserted : filaments bearded. — We fully agree with 

 Hooker, in considering our plant identical with the L. ceerulea of Europe and 

 Siberia. 



15. L. oblongifoiia (Hook.) : stem erect, much branched ; leaves oblong 

 or oval, velvety-pubescent when young, at length almost glabrous ; pedun- 

 cles fiUform, erect, much longer than the flowers; bracts obsolete ; corolla 

 gibbous at the base, deeply bilabiate ; berries (purple) globose, formed by 

 the union of 2 ovaries.— HooJc. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 284, t. 100. L. yillosa," 

 DC! L c. partly. Xylosteum oblongifoUum, Goldie, in Edinb. phil.jour. 

 6. p. 323. 



Sphagnous swamps, Canada, Mr. Goldie, Drummond ! Northern and 

 Western parts of the State of New York! May-June. — Shrub 3-4 feet 

 high. Leaves 1-2 inches long, slightly petioled. Peduncles about an inch 

 long. Corolla half an inch long, greenish-yellow ; tinged with purple inter- 

 nally : the lower Hp oblong-linear, often spreading ; the upper erect, with 4 

 short lobes. Filaments nearly glabrous, not exceeding the corolla : anthers 

 linear. Style hairy. Berries about the size of a large pea, marked with the 

 vestiges of the two approximated calyces. 



4. DIERVILLA. Tourn. in act. acad. Par. (1706) t. l.f. 1. ; Linn. liorU 

 Cliff, t. 7 ; Lam. ill. t. 105 ; Sieb. SfZucc.Ji. Japon.p. 68. i. 29-32. 



Weigela, Thunb. — Calysphiyum, Bunge. — Diervilla Ac Weigela, Alph. DC. 



Calyx-tube oblong or cylindrical, often attenuated at the summit ; the seg- 

 ments of the 5-parted limb linear or subulate. Corolla infundibuliform ; the 

 limb 5-cleft, nearly regular or slightly bilabiate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2- 

 celled, crowned with an oblong epigynous gland : stigma peltate-capitate. 

 Fruit capsular, membranaceous or crustaceo-coriaceous, 2-celled, 2-valved, 

 septicidal ; the 2-lobed placentse usually strongly projecting into the cells, 

 each bearing numerous seeds in a double series. Seeds with a scrobiculate 

 testa, naked or cristate. — Shrubs (natives of North America, Japan, and 

 Northern China). Leaves ovate or oblong, mostly petioled, serrate, acute, 

 deciduous. Peduncles axillary or terminal, 1-flowered or cymosely 3-7- 

 flowered ; the central flower frequently sessile ; all bibracteate at the base. 



The Asiatic species have been admirably illustrated by Zuccarini, in the work ci- 

 ted above. These all have a somewhat indurated capsule, and the seeds (' testa mem- 

 branaceous,' Zucc.) furnished with a crest or slight wing ; and the flowers are in- 

 clined to be rose-color or puiple. They form a marked section, at least, which 

 should retain Tliunberg's name, Weigela. The latter was united to Diervilla by 

 Brown (who first pointed out the mistake into which Thunberg had fallen), and in 

 this he is followed by Zuccarini : while Alphonse De CandoUe (Note ,<;(//• fe genre 

 Weigela, etc. in the Bibliotheque Universelle d.c Gcnerr. Jan. 1839) not only retains 

 that genus, but divides it into two sections ; and this even withovU being acquainted 

 with the trait and seeds of the Asiatic plants, which furnish the most obvious dis- 



