NH SOAl'UKi.UY FAMILY. 



Represented both as to native and cultivated plants by two 

 genera : 



1. CKLASTRUS. Flowers polygamous or dioecious. Petals and stamens 5, on the 



of a concave di.sk which lines the bottom of the calyx. Filaments and 

 style ratlin- slender. l'<"l LM"ular, berry-like, but dry. I.i-aves alternate. 



2. EUONYMUS. I- 1.. WITS perfect, ilat ; the calyx-lobes and petals (4 or .0) widely 



spreading. Stamens mostly with short filaments or almost sessile anthers, 

 borne on the surface c,f a lat disk which more or less conceals or covers 

 the ovary. Pod 3-5-lobeJ, generally bright-colored. Leaves opposite: 

 branchlets 4-sided. 



1. CELASTRUS, STAFF-TREE. (Old Greek name, of obscure mean- 

 ing and application.) 



C. SCandens, CLIMHING BITTER-SWEET <>r \V\\-WUKK. A twining 

 high-climbing shrub, smooth, with thin ovate-oblong ami pointed finely f-crratc 

 leaves, racemes of greenish-white flowers (in early summer) terminating the 

 branches, the petals serrate or crenale-toothed, and orange-colored berry-like 

 poiU In autumn, which open ami display the seeds enclosed in their scarlet 

 pulpy aril : wild in luw grounds, and planted for the showy fruit. 



2. EUONYMUS, Sl'INDLE-TREE. (Old Greek name, means of good 



n /in/,-.) Shnilis not twining, with dull-colored inconspicuous (lowers, in small 

 cymes on axillary peduncles, produced in early summer; the puds in autumn 

 ornamental, especially when they open and display the seeds enveloped in 

 thvir scarlet pulpy aril. 



* Leaves deciduous, finely serrate : style short or nearly none. 

 *- North American species : anthers sessile or nearly so. 



E. atropurpureus, BruNixc-nrsii or SPINDLE-TREE. Tall shrub, wild 

 from \e\v York \V. & S., and comnionly planted ; with oval or oblong petioled 

 leaves, flowers with rounded dark dull-purple ]ietals (generally 4), and smooth 



deeply 4-lobcd n-d fruit, h:muin^ on slender [ieduiH']e>. 



E. Americanus, AMEEICAJN SrKAwnEuitv-nfsn. Low shrub, wild 



from New York \V. >. S., ami soinetimcs cult. ; with thickish ovate or lance- 

 ox ate almo-t se>sile leaves, usually 5 greenish-purple rounded petals, and roiifih- 

 warty somewhat :Mobed fruit, crimson when ripe. Var. onov.Vrrs, with 

 thinner and dull obovutc or oblong leaves, has IOIIL;- and spreading or trailing 

 and routing branches. 



-i- *- l'.rti<- : anthers raised on evident filaments. 



E. Eui'OpSBUS, Ei i:<)i-i:.v.v SPINDLE-TRKE. Occasionally planted, but 

 inferior to the lore-niu^ ; a rather low shrub, with lance-ovate or oblong short- 



petioled leaves, about .'Mlowered peduncles, 4 greenish ob'.on^ petals, and a 

 smooth 4-lobed red fruit, the 1 aril orange-color. 



# * l.,<ir,s (i-iri/rt in, xi-rriitatt' : filaments iind style rather sl<'>i</< r. 



E. Jap6nicus, JAPAN S. Planted S. under the name of CHINESE Box, 

 there hardy, but is a greenhouse plant N. ; has obovate shining and bright 

 ^reen leaves (also a Conn with \\hite or yellowish variegation ), several-llo\\ cred 

 peduncles, 4 obovate whiti>b petals, and smooth globular pods. 



35. SAPINDAC^E.Sl, SOAPBERRY FAMILY. 



Tree-, shrtiUs, or one or two herbaceous flimlirrs, mostly with 

 compound <>r lohcd leaves, and uiisyrametrical flowers, the stamens 

 sometime, twice as many as the petals or lobes of the calyx, but 

 commonly rather fewer, when of equal number alternate with the 

 pel;ils ; these imbricated in the hud, inserted on a di-k in the bottom 

 of the ealyx and often coherent with it : ovary 2 - 3-ee!led, sometimes 

 2 - 3-lobed, with 1 -3 (or in Staphylea several) ovules in each cell 

 The common plants belong to the three following suborders. 



