The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
6. L. gràta, Ait. (AMERICAN WOODBINE.) Leaves smooth, glaucous beneath,
obovate, the 2 or 3 upper pairs united; flowers whorled in the uppermost
axils; corolla whitish with a purple tube, fading yellowish, not gibbous
at base, fragrant.--Rocky woodlands, N. J. and Penn. to Mich. and Mo.,
and southward; also cultivated. May.
[+][+] _Corolla hairy within, the tube 6´´ long or less._
7. L. hirsùta, Eaton. (HAIRY HONEYSUCKLE.) Twining and rather
high-climbing; leaves deep green above, downy-hairy beneath, as well as
the branches, veiny, dull, broadly oval, the uppermost united, the lower
short-petioled; flowers in approximate whorls; tube of the
(orange-yellow) clammy-pubescent corolla gibbous at base, slender.--Damp
copses and rocks, Maine to Penn., Mich., and Minn. July.--A coarse
large-leaved species.
8. L. Sullivántii, Gray. At length _much whitened with glaucous bloom_,
3--6° high, glabrous; leaves oval and obovate-oblong (2--4´ long),
sessile and mostly connate on the flowering stems, the uppermost into an
orbicular disk; corolla pale yellow; _filaments nearly glabrous_. (L.
flava of former edition, mainly.)--Ohio to Ill., Minn., and L. Winnipeg;
also in Tenn. and N. C.
9. L. glaùca, Hill. Glabrous, or lower leaf surface sometimes
puberulent, 3--5° high; leaves oblong (2--3´ long), glaucous but less
whitened than in the last, the 1--4 _upper pairs connate_; corolla
greenish-yellow or purplish; _tube only 3--4´´ long, within and also
style and base of filaments hirsute_. (L. parviflóra, _Lam._, and part
of var. Douglásii, _Gray._)--Rocky grounds, N. Eng. and Penn. to Minn.,
and northward.
8. DIERVÍLLA, Tourn. BUSH-HONEYSUCKLE.
Calyx-tube tapering at the summit; the lobes slender, awl-shaped,
persistent. Corolla funnel-form, 5-lobed, almost regular. Stamens 5.
Pod ovoid-oblong, pointed, 2-celled, 2-valved, septicidal,
many-seeded.--Low upright shrubs, with ovate or oblong pointed serrate
leaves, and cymosely 3--several-flowered peduncles, from the upper axils
or terminal. (Named in compliment to _Dr. Dierville_, who brought it
from Canada to Tournefort.)
1. D. trífida, Moench. Leaves oblong-ovate, taper-pointed, petioled;
peduncles mostly 3-flowered; pod long-beaked.--Rocks, Newf. to the
mountains of N. C., west to Minn. June--Aug.--Flowers honey-color, not
showy, as are the Japanese species cultivated under the name of WEIGELA.
ORDER 52. RUBIÀCEÆ. (MADDER FAMILY.)
_Shrubs or herbs, with opposite entire leaves connected by interposed
stipules, or in whorls without apparent stipules, the calyx coherent
with the 2--4-celled ovary, the stamens as many as the lobes of the
regular corolla (4--5), and inserted on its tube._--Flowers perfect, but
often dimorphous (as in Mitchella and Houstonia). Fruit various. Seeds
anatropous or amphitropous. Embryo commonly pretty large, in copious
hard albumen.--A very large family, the greater part, and all its most
important plants (such as the Coffee and Peruvian-Bark trees), tropical.
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