GEXUS /. 



HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 



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7. DIERVILLA [Tourn.] Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 8. 1754. 



Shrubs, with opposite leaves, and yellow axillary and terminal cymose or solitary flowers. 

 Calyx-tube slender, elongated, narrowed below, the limb with 5 linear persistent lobes. Corolla 

 narrowly funnelform, the tube slightly gibbous at the base, the limb nearly regular, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla; anth.ers linear. Ovary 2-celled; ovules numerous in each 

 cavity; style filiform; stigma capitate. Fruit a linear-oblong capsule, narrowed or beaked at 

 the summit, septicidally 2-valved, many-seeded. Seed coat minutely reticulated ; endosperm 

 fleshy; embryo minute. [Named for Dr. Dierville, who brought the plant to Tournefort.] 



Three species, the following typical one, the others in the mountains of the Southern States. 

 The Japanese and Chinese Weigelas, often referred to this genus, are here regarded as distinct. 



i. Diervilla Diervilla (L.) MacM. Bush- 

 Honeysuckle. Fig. 3993. 



Lonicera Diervilla L. Sp. PI. 175. 1753. 

 Diervilla Lonicera Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8. 1768. 

 Diervilla trifida Moench, Meth. 492. 1794. 

 D. Diervilla MacM. Bull. Torr. Club 19: 15. 1892. 



A shrub, 2-4 high, glabrous or nearly so 

 throughout, with terete branches. Leaves short- 

 petioled, ovate or oval, acuminate at the apex, 

 usually rounded at the base, 2'-$' long, irregularly 

 crenulate and often slightly ciliate on the margins ; 

 peduncles terminal, or in the upper axils, slender, 

 i-5-flowered; flowers about 9" long; corolla more 

 or less pubescent both without and within, regular 

 or slightly irregular, 3 of its lobes somewhat 

 united; capsule glabrous, linear-oblong, slender, 

 beaked, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes. 



In dry or rocky woodlands, Newfoundland to Mani- 

 toba, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin. 

 Gravel-weed. Life-of-man. May-June. 



Family 38. ADOXACEAE Fritsch ; Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4* : 170. 1891. 



MOSCHATEL FAMILY. 



A glabrous perennial slender herb, with scaly or tuberiferous rootstocks, basal and 

 opposite ternately compound leaves, and small green flowers in terminal capitate 

 clusters. Calyx-tube hemispheric, adnate to the ovary, its limb 2-3-toothed. Corolla 

 rotate, regular, 4-6-lobed. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of the corolla, 

 inserted in pairs on its tube; filaments short; anthers peltate, i-celled. Ovary 

 3~5-celled; style 3~5-parted; ovules I in each cavity, pendulous. Fruit a small 



drupe with 3-5-nutlets. Endosperm carti- 

 laginous. 



The family contains only the following monotypic 

 genus of the north temperate zone. 



i. ADOXA L. Sp. PI. 367. 1753. 



Characters of the family. [Greek, without glory, 

 i. e., insignificant.] 



i. Adoxa Moschatellina L. Musk-root. 

 Hollow-root. Moschatel. Fig. 3994. 



Adoxa Moschatellina L. Sp. PI. 367. 1753. 



Stems simple, weak, erect, 3'-6' high, bearing 

 a pair of opposite ternate leaves usually above the 

 middle. Basal leaves 1-4, long-petioled, ternately 

 compound, the segments broadly ovate or orbicu- 

 lar, obtuse, thin, 3-cleft or 3-parted, the lobes 

 obtuse and mucronulate; head 3"-4" in diameter, 

 composed of 3-6-flowers; corolla of the terminal 

 flower 4-S-lobed, those of the others usually 

 5-6-lobed; drupe green, bearing the persistent 

 calyx-lobes above the middle. 



In shaded rocky places, Arctic America, south to 

 Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Colorado. Also 

 in northern Europe and Asia. Other English names 

 are bulbous fumitory, glory-less, musk-crowfoot or 

 wood-crowfoot. Odor musky. May. 



