504 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



84. Swamp Fly-honeysuckle 



Z. oblougifolia has a yellowish-white, tubular, 4-inch-long, 

 deeply 2-lipped corolla. Floivers, in June, in pairs at the ends 

 of branches, on long, slender peduncles. Berries, purple, 

 generally united, sometimes separate. 



A shrub 2 to 5 feet high, growing in bogs in New England, 

 New York, and westward. 



85. Bush Honeysuckle 



Dierv'illa irffida. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, deep yel- 

 low. Leaves, opposite, short-petioled, oval or elliptical, finely 

 toothed, tapering at apex, round at base, slightly fringed 

 along the margins. Time, June to August. 



Calyx -tube, long, with 5 long, narrow segments above. 

 Corolla, tubular, opening and spreading above into 5 narrow 

 lobes. Stamens, 5. Pistil, with a long, projecting style, and 

 button-like stigma. Flowers, small, fragrant, 3 together, short- 

 pedicelled, on a common peduncle, from the upper, opposite 

 leaf-axils. Fruit, long, crowned with the calj'X-teeth. Stems, 

 grayish, somewhat 4-angled. 



A pretty, low shrub, 2 to 4 feet high, found in rocky places, 

 especially on the tops of mountains, from New England south- 

 ward to North Carolina, and westward. 



The weigela of our gardens, an early flowering shrub with red 

 or yellow showy flowers, is a Japanese species of diervilla. 



86. Button-bush. River-bush 



Cephalan thus occidentalis. — Family, Madder. Color, white. 

 Leaves, opposite or in threes, witii short stipules between, oval 

 or broadly lance-shaped, 3 to 5 inches long, on channelled peti- 

 oles, entire, but wavy-margined, pointed, bright green above, 

 paler below. Time, July and August. 



Calyx-tube, 4-lobed. Corolla, a slender tube, hairy within. 



