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The Ohio Naturalist. 



[Vol. VII, No. 3, 



FALL 



If the percentages of the different colors for each season are 

 examined it will be seen that the percentages of white and green 

 flowers are greatest in the spring and least in the fall, while the 

 percentages of violet, purple and yellow flowers are least in^the 

 spring and greatest in the fall. 



WINTER KEY TO THE OHIO SPECIES OF EUONYMUS. 



Dale Condit. 



Euonymus. Small trees or erect or trailing shrubs with op- 

 posite leaf scars; twigs usually four-angled, green or greenish; ter- 

 minal bud present with 6-10 acute or obtuse scales; axillary 

 buds single, sessile; leaf scars semicircular to crescent shaped, 

 with one bundle scar; stipular scars none, pith solid, rhombic, 

 white or greenish; bark more or less bitter; self-pruning scars 

 present in some species; fruit a more or less fleshy colored cap- 

 sule; the seeds with a brilliantly colored aril. 



1. Low, trailing, ascending or erect, shrubs, often rooting from the stem; 

 apical pair of bud scales usually much longer than the other pairs 

 and forming a slender conical point; bud scales thin, flexible; cap- 

 sule tviberculate. 2. 



1. Small trees; bud scales thickened and having an elevated keel; ter- 



minal buds transversely four-angled, short and obtuse or long and 

 acute; capsule smooth. 3. 



2. Trailing decumbent shrubs, seldom rising 2 feet above the ground and 



rooting from the prostrate stems; bvid scales obtuse; twigs soft and 

 flexible. E. obovatus Nutt. Running Strawberry Bush. 



2. Erect or ascending shrubs 2-8 feet high; bud scales more acute, thin. 



E. amcricamis L. American Strawberry Bush. 



3. Buds acute, long; Inid scales acute; bark very bitter; aril red. 



E. atropiirpnreiis Jacq. Wahoo. 

 3. Buds obtuse, short; bud scales usually very obtuse; bark only slightly 

 bitter; aril yellow. • E. europaeus L. Spindle-tree. 



