GENus 7. HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY. 283 
7, DIERVILLA [Tourn.] Mill. Gard. Dict. 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; anthers 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. 
1. Diervilla Diervilla (L.) MacM. Bush- 
Honeysuckle. Fig. 3993. 
Lonicera Diervilla L. Sp. Pl. 175. 1753. 
Diervilla Lonicera Mill, Gard. Dict. 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’-5’ long, irregularly 
crenulate and often slightly ciliate on the margins; 
peduncles terminal, or in the upper axils, slender, 
1-5-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. Pf. 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, 1-celled. Ovary 
3-5-celled; style 3-5-parted; ovules 1 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. 
1. ADOXA L. Sp. Pl. 367. 1753. 
Characters of the family. [Greek, without glory, 
i. é., insignificant. ] 
1. Adoxa Moschatéllina L. Musk-root. 
Hollow-root. Moschatel. Fig. 3994. 
Adoxa Moschatellina L. Sp. Pl. 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 4-5-lobed, those of the others usually 
5-6-lobed; drupe green, bearing the persistent 
calyx-lobes above the middle. 
In shaded rocky places, Arctic 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. 
