STAPHYLEACEAE (BLADDER-NUT FAMILY) 



CELASTEACEAE (STAFF TREE FAMILY) 



Shrubs with simple leaves and small regular flowers. 4 or $ 

 stamens, as many as the petals, and inserted on a disk which fills 

 the bottom of the calyx. Fruit 2 to ^-celled. 



EUONYMUS 



Shrubs with 4-sided branches. Opposite serrate leaves. Loose 

 cymes of small perfect flowers on axillary peduncles. Parts of 



the flower 4 or 5, about 3 to 5-lobed. 

 Seeds enclosed in an aril. 



E. atropurpureus, WAAHOO. Tree- 

 like shrub reaching 4 m. in height; 

 leaves petioled, oval-oblong; flowers 

 dark purple; pods smooth, deeply 

 lobed. 



CELASTRUS 



Euonymus atropurpureus, Waahoo. 



Twining shrubs with alternate 



leaves and sriiall greenish flowers in raceme-like clusters. Petals 

 and stamens 5. Pod globose, orange-colored, 3-celled. Seeds en- 

 closed in a pulpy scarlet aril. 



C. scandens, BITTERSWEET. Leaves ovate-oblong, finely serrate, 

 pointed ; the opening orange-colored pods display the scarlet covering 

 of the seeds. Along streams and in thickets. June. 



STAPHYLEACEAE (BLADDER-NUT FAMILY) 



Shrubs or small trees with opposite pinnate leaves, perfect flow- 

 ers, and stamens as many as the petals, and borne outside a large 

 disk. 



STAPHYLEA 



Upright shrubs with pinnate leaves ; leaflets 3 or 5, serrate ; 

 flowers white, in drooping racemes; sepals and petals 5; pistil 

 of 3 carpels; fruit a large, inflated 3-celled pod, bursting at the 

 summit. 



