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ILICACEAE. 



Vol. II. 



2. NEMOPANTHUS Raf. Journ. Thys. 89: 96. 1819. 

 [iLiLiuiuES Dunioiil. Hot. Cult. 4: i_7. />/. 4- Ilyponym. 1802.] 

 A glabrous shrub, with slender-petioled oblong deciduous leaves, and polygamo-dioecious 

 axillary small flowers. Calyx of the staminatc flowers none, that of the pistillate minute, 

 4_5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, distinct, linear. Stamens 4 or 5, free from the corolla ; anthers 

 ovoid-globose. Ovary 3-s-lobed, 3-5-celled ; ovules i in each cavity; stigmas 3-5, sessile. 

 Drupe subglobose. Nutlets 4 or 5. [Greek, referring to the slender pedicels.] 

 A inonotypic genus of eastern North America. 



I. Nemopanthus mucronata ( L. ) Trelease. Wild nr Mountain Holly. 



Fig. 2796. 



Vaccinhiin mucronalum L. Sp. PI. 350. 1753. 

 Nemopanthus fascicnlaris Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 97. 



i8ig. 

 N. canadensis DC. Mem. Soc. Gen. i ; 450. 1821. 



Kcinopanthes mucronata Trelease, Trans. Acad. St. 



Louis 5 : 349. 1889. 

 Ilicioidcs mucronata Eritton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: J17. 



1894. 



A shrub, 6-lS high, with ash-colored bark. Leaves 

 elliptic or obovate, -2' long, acutish or mucronate 

 at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, entire or 

 with a few small teeth; petioles 3"-6" long; flowers 

 of both kinds solitary, or the staminate sometimes 

 2-4 together; pedicels very slender, often li' long; 

 drupe red, 3"-4" in diameter; nutlets faintly ribbed. 



In swamps, Newfoundland to western Ontario, south 

 to Wisconsin, Indiana and \'irginia. Cat-berry. Brick- 

 timber. May. 



Family 77. CELASTRACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 119. 1836. 



St.\ff-tree F-\MiLy. 

 Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple. 

 Stipules, when present, small and caducous. Flowers regular, generally per- 

 fect, small. Pedicels commonly jointed. Calyx 4-5-lobed or parted, persistent, 

 the lobes imbricated. Petals '4-5. spreading. Stamens inserted on the disk, 

 alternate with the petals. Disk conspicuous, flat or lobed. Uvary sessile,_ its 

 base distinct from or confluent with the disk, mostly 3-5-celled: style sliort,_ thick ; 

 stigma entire or 3-5-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, anatropous. Fruit (in our 

 species) a somewhat dehiscent 2-5-celled pod. Seeds arilled ; embryo large; 

 cotyledons foliaceous. 



About 45 genera and 375 species, widely distributed in warm and temperate regions. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Large erect or decumbent shrubs ; fruit 3-5-lobed ; ard red. i. luionymus. 



Low spreading shrubs: fruit oblong; aril whitish. 2. Pachyst\ma. 



Leaves alternate ; woody vine. 3- telastrus. 



I. EUONYMUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. i97- i753- 

 Shrubs, with opposite petioled entire or serrate leaves, and perfect cymose axillary greenish 

 or purple flowers. Calyx 4-5-cleft, the lobes spreading or recurved. Petals 4 or 5, inserted 

 beneath the 4-5-lobed disk. Stamens 4 or S, inserted on the disk. Ovary 3-5-celled ;_ style 

 short or none ; stigma 3-5-lobed. Capsule 3-S-celled, 3-5-lobed. angular, rounded or winged, 

 the cavities 1-2-seeded, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds enclosed in the red aril, [.\ncient name 

 of the spindle-tree; also spelled Evonymus.] 



.^bout 65 species, of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, 2 others occur in Cali- 

 fornia. Type species : OH.vwiii i?i(ro/iafii.r L. 



Pods tuberculate : low shrubs : flowers greenish pink ; leaves subsessile. 

 Erect or ascending ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Decumbent, rooting at the nodes ; leaves obovate. obtuse. 



Pods smooth : high shrubs ; leaves distinctly petioled. 



Flowers purple; cymes 6-15-flowered. 3. h.atropurpurcus. 



Flowers greenish yellow ; cymes 3-7-flowered. 4- -E- curopacus. 



1. E. americanus. 



2. E. obovatus. 



