150 Honey stickle (Caprifoliacece) 



A shrub four to ten feet high, with erect, much- 

 branching stems ; elegant, and every way worthy of culti- 

 vation. Introduced from Russia. 



(5) Genus Diervilla, Tourn. 

 Fig. 67. Bush Honeysuckle. D. trifida (L.J Moench. 



Flowers, greenish-yellow, in clusters that are either 

 terminal or in the axils of the upper leaves usually 

 three blossoms to each flower-stem. Corolla, funnel- 

 form, five-lobed, nearly regular, twice as long as the 

 calyx. Calyx-lobes, slender, awl-shaped, persistent. 

 Stamens, five ; stamens and style much longer than 

 the tube of the corolla. Seed-case, slender, about 

 one third inch long. 



Leaves, simple, opposite, two to four inches in length, 

 long egg-shape, toothed, taper-pointed. Stems, 

 marked with two slight ridges, very noticeable in the 

 young shoots. 



Fruit, tapering above into a slender beak, which is often 

 curved, and is crowned with the long and somewhat 

 spreading persistent sepals. Cells, two (apparently 

 four because of the intruding false partitions). Seeds, 

 many. A capsule. 



Found, from the mountains of North Carolina northward 

 and westward. 



An upright shrub about two feet high, very modest as 

 compared with its showy related species, the cultivated 

 Japanese "Weigela." 



