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buds with several pairs of rather loose pointed scales; simple 
short-stalked toothed leaves; moderate or rather large perfect 
funnel-shaped gamopetalous flowers in axillary clusters; and 
narrow inferior capsules with small seeds. 
1. Flowers small (scarcely 15 mm. long), yellow. (Diervilla). 2. 
Flowers distinctly larger, white to deep red. (Weigelia). 3. 
2. Twigs rounded: leaves distinctly petioled. D. Lonicera. 
Twigs 4-angled: leaves nearly sessile. D. sessilifolia. 
3. Calyx-tube nearly as long as the lobes. D. florida. 
Sepals narrow, parted to the base. 
D. japonica, floribunda, and X D. hybrida. 
LEYCESTERIA, 
Deciduous shrubs or half shrubs with excavated pith; op- 
posite simple leaves; moderately small gamopetalous perfect 
flowers in nodding leafy terminal clusters; and small red inferior 
few-seeded berries. 
Leaves ovate or lance-ovate: flowers purplish. L. formosa. 
Family COMPOSITAE. Sunflower Family. 
The largest family of plants, widespread and of much flori- 
cultural value, including the chrysanthemum of florists and many 
bedding plants: rarely woody. Cocklebur, dog-fennel, dandelion, 
thistle, white weeds, etc., are familiar examples of composite 
weeds; and artichoke, oyster-plant and chicory are grown in the 
garden. 
BaAccHArtis. Groundsel Tree. 
Deciduous shrubs with moderately slender sharply angled 
twigs with resin-passages in the bark; somewhat angular pale 
brownish homogeneous pith; alternate somewhat raised shallowly 
U-shaped 3-lobed leaf-scars with 3 bundle-traces; no stipule- 
scars; round-ovoid solitary sessile buds, with several scales, 
heavily coated with resin; simple cuneately stalked toothed leaves; 
minute perfect gamopetalous flowers in small green-involucrate 
heads mostly clustered toward the ends of the branches; and 
minute akenes with long rather tawny pappus. 
Leaves oblanceolate or obovate, moderately large. B. halimifolia. 
