294 HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 



regular lobes, 8-12 mm. long, stamens exserted, the filaments hairy: ber- 

 ries separate, bright red: Morrowi, named for Dr. James Morrow. 



Cultivated. Native of Japan. 



A very handsome and hardy shrub, ornamental both in flower and 

 fruit and covered with foliage from earliest spring until hard freezing in 

 the fall. A very useful plant for untrimmed hedges where there is plenty 

 of space. This plant grows readily from seed: it is distributed extensively 

 by birds and is apt to appear spontaneously in the vicinity of cultivated 

 plants. Flowers in May and June, fruits from August to late autumn. 



Diervilla Mocnc h 1794 

 (Named for Dr. Dierville) 



Upright shrubs; leaves opposite, serrate; flowers axillary and terminal, 

 cymose or solitary, calyx-tube slender and elongated, narrowed below the 

 5 persistent sepals, corolla tubular, or funnel-shaped, the tube slightly 

 gibbous at the base, 5-lobed, stamens 5, borne on the tube of the corolla, 

 anthers linear, ovary 2-celled, inferior, ovules numerous in each cavity, 

 style long and slender, stigma capitate; fruit a capsule, oblong, slender- 

 beaked or pointed, 2-valved. 



A genus of about 8 species, two of eastern North America, the others 

 of eastern Asia. 



Key to the Species 



1. Native, flowers less than 2 cm. long, yellow D. Louie era 



2. Cultivated, flowers more than 2 cm. long, rose-pink or whitish 



D. florida 



Diervilla Lonicera Miller 1768 



Low upright shrub, 1 m. or less high, bark grayish brown, twigs 

 smooth except for two narrow hispid lines, leaves ovate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, smooth, except a little rough hairy along the veins, margins finely 

 serrate, tip long-acuminate, base wedge-shaped to rounded, 6-13 cm. long, 

 2-7 cm. wide, petioles 5-10 mm. long; flowers terminal or axillary, in 

 clusters of 2-6, sepals bristle-like, about 5 mm. long, corolla funnel- 

 shaped, about 1.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. in diameter, the free portion of the 

 petals linear, corolla pale yellow, growing darker : Lonicera, the 

 generic name of the honeysuckle. 



Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to North Carolina, Indiana and 

 Minnesota. In Minnesota throughout the wooded part of the state. 

 Flowers in June. 



