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cent, at least when young; peduncles axillary, 2-5 cm. long, 2-3-flowered; bracts 

 ovate or oval, often cordate ; bractlets large, at length surrounding the fruit; 

 flowers yellow; corolla pubescent, funnelform, the limb nearly equally 5-lobed; 

 berries separate, globose, or oval, nearly black, about 8 mm. in diameter. In 

 woodlands, Quebec to Ont., Mich., Alaska, Ariz., Utah and Cal. June-July. 



7. DIERVILLA Moench. 



Shrubs, with opposite leaves, and yellow cymose or solitary flowers. Calyx- 

 tube slender, narrowed below, the limb with 5 linear persistent lobes. Corolla nar 

 rowly funnellbrm, the tube slightly gibbous at the base, the limb nearly regular, 5- 

 lobed. Stamens 5; anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled; ovules numerous; style fili- 

 form; stigma capitate. Fruit a linear-oblong capsule, narrowed or beaked at the 

 summit, septicidatly 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 and two in the mountains of the 

 Southern States. 



i. Diervilla Diervilla (L.) MacM. BUSH HONEYSUCKLE. (I. F. f. 3469.) 

 A shrub, 6-12 dm. high, glabrous or nearly so, with terete branches. Leaves 

 short- petioled, ovate or oval, acuminate, usually rounded at the base, 5-14 cm. 

 long, irregularly crenulate and often slightly ciliate; peduncles terminal, or in the 

 upper axils, slender, 1-5 flowered; flowers about 18 mm. long; corolla more or less 

 pubescent both without and within, 3 of its lobes somewhat united; capsule gla- 

 brous, slender, beaked. In dry or rocky woodlands, Newf. to the N. W. Terr., 

 N. Car. and Mich. May-June. 



Family 3. ADOXACEAE Fritsch. 

 Moschatel Family. 



Glabrous slender herbs, 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, 

 the 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; fila- 

 ments 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 cartilaginous. The family contains only the 

 following monotypic genus. 



i. ADOXA L. 



Characters of the family. [Greek, without glory, i.e., insignificant.] 

 i. Adoxa Moschatellina L. MUSK-ROOT. HOLLOW-ROOT. MOSCHATEL. 

 (I. F. f. 3470-) Stems simple, weak, erect, 7-15 cm. high, bearing a pair of oppo- 

 site ternate leaves usually above the middle. Basal leaves 1-4, long-petioled, ter- 

 nately compound, the segments broadly ovate or orbicular, obtuse, thin, 3-cleft or 3- 

 parted, the lobes obtuse and mucronulate; head 6-8 mm. in diameter, of 3 6 flowers; 

 corolla of the terminal flower 4~5-lobed, those of the others usually 5~6-lobed; 

 drupe green, bearing the persistent calyx-lobes above the middle. In shaded rocky 

 places, Arctic Am. to Iowa, Wis., S. Dak. and Colo. Also in Europe and Asia. 

 Odor musky. May. 



Order 8. VALERIANALES. 



Herbs, the corolla gamopetalous. Stamens mostly fewer than the 

 corolla-lobes; anthers separate. Ovary inferior, i-celled with i pendulous 

 ovule, or 3-celled with 2 of the cavities without ovules. 



Ovary 3-celled; 2 cavities empty. Fam. r. Val'riinaceae, 



Qvary i-celled; flowers densely capitate, invplucrate, Fam, 3. 



