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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. XIV, No. 6, 
Linnaea L. 
Small creeping rather woody herbs; leaves evergreen, petioled, 
obovate to orbicular; flowers in pairs, long peduncled, pink or 
purple, bisporangiate, campanulate to funnelformed, actinomor- 
phic; andrecium pentamerous, united with the base of the corolla, 
included; ovulary 3-locular, one cavity containing a perfect ovule 
while the others have several rudimentary ovules; fruit almost 
globose, containing a single long seed. 
1 . Linnaea americana Forbes. American Twinflower. 
Branches woody, slender, somewhat pubescent, trailing; leaves 
\ to \ inch long, | to f inch wide, usually somewhat crenate, 
slender, petioled, erect; peduncles about 3 inches long, 2-bract- 
eolate at the tip; flowers funnelform, fragrant, f to \ inch long; 
ovulary subtented by two glandular ovate scales which often 
cover the fruit and are attached to it. In cool places. Stark 
County. 
Diervilla [Tourn.] Mill. Bush-honeysuckle. 
Shrubs with opposite leaves and yellow cymose or solitary 
bisporangiate flowers; corolla narrow funnelform, nearly actino- 
morphic., base somewhat gibbous; calyx tube slender narrow below; 
stamens five, anthers linear, ovulary bilocular; ovules many, seed 
coat minutely reticulate; fruit a glabrous, slender, beaked, septi- 
cidal, many seeded capsule; embryo minute. 
1. Diervilla diervilla (L.) A-IacM. Bush-honevsuckle. A 
shrub 1 2 to 3 feet high; branches glabrous or nearly so, terete 
usually with two pubescent ridges; leaves short petioled, ovate to 
obovate, acuminate, irregularly crenate, sometimes slightly 
ciliate; flowers terminal or in upper axils in 1-5-flowered clusters; 
corolla about f inch long, pubescent, very slightly 2-lipped. In 
rocky dry woods. Lucas, Lorain, Summit, Wayne, Stark, 
Franklin. 
Date of Publication, April 24, 1014. 
