RUBIACE^ 



Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, nearly sessile, finely reticulated, hairy 

 on nerves. 



A deciduous shrub. 



Native of Siberia. Syn. Weigela middendorjiana. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division III. . . . Gamopetalce 

 Natural Order . . . Rubiacece 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs; Leaves opposite, with interpetiolar stipules, or 

 apparently whorled, usually entire, the stipules sometimes resembling the leaves ; 

 Floxcers hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual, usually regular ; Calyx 3-6-lobed 

 or toothed or obsolete, tube adnate to ovary ; Corolla 3-6-lobed ; Stamens 

 usually as many as corolla lobes, inserted in the throat or tube ; Ovary inferior, 

 2 or more celled ; Fr^iit a capsule, berry, or drupe. 



BUTTON BUSH, Ceplialanthus occidentalis. 



Gardens, shrubbery borders, or woods. July. Best in peaty soil. Propa- 

 gated by layers in early autumn. 



Floxcers yellowish-white, small, very fragrant, in dense terminal globose 

 pujiicled heads, 1-1^ in. diam., bracts glandular ; Calyx 4-5-lobed, lobes 

 rounded, villose at base ; Corolla tubular, infundibuliform, 4-5-lobed, glandular 

 or eglandular ; Stamens 4-5, inserted on throat of corolla, anthers sub-sessile, 

 included, dehiscing before flower opens ; Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; style filiform, 

 stigma clavate, entire ; Fruit a capsule, coriaceous, dark red-brown ; seeds 

 2, Avith white spongy arillus. 



Leaves opposite, or verticillate in threes, ovate or lanceolate, acute or 



acuminate, rounded or cvmeate at base, membranaceous, dark green above, 



paler below, 4-7 ins. long, 1-3 A ins. wide ; petioles stout, grooved ; stipules 



minute, nearly triangular. 



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