EUONYMUS ATROPURPUREUS. 
Ovary. Superior, immersed in and adhering to the disc. 
Frurr. A capsule or berry. 
Seeps. Either with or without an arillus. 
Tue Seconpary CHARACTERS. 
Evonymus. Calyx flat, of five (sometimes four or six) 
united sepals. Corolla flat, inserted on the outer margin of 
a glandular disc. Stamens five, with short filaments. Cap- 
sule colored, five-angled, five-celled, five-valved. Seeds arilled. 
Calyx five-parted or five-cleft, flat. Cbrolla flat, inserted on the outer margin of 
a glandular disc. Capsule five-angled, five-celled, five-valved, colored. two- 
lobed. Seeds calyptred or arilled. 
Tue Speciric Cuaracrers. 
Evonymus arropurpurevs. Branches smooth. Leaves el- 
liptic-lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrate, puberulent beneath. 
Peduncles compressed, many-flowered. Flowers usually pen- 
tamerous. 
Leaves petioled, lance-oblong, acuminate, serrate. Peduncles divaricate, many- 
flowered. Flowers four-cleft. Fruit smooth, red. 
Tue Artrricran CHaractTErs. 
~Cxass Penranprra. Stamens five. Orver Micnocrwix 
Polypetalous. Flowers inferior, regular. Stamens alternate 
with the petals. Shrubs. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
The Spindle-tree i is a smooth shrub or large bush, growing 
from four to ten feet high in shady woods and thickets in 
river bottoms in the Western States. It flowers in June, and 
its seeds ripen late in the fall. The Indians generally called 
it Wa-hoo, among whom it is said to have been a popular 
remedy, as well as among the whites of certain early settle- 
ments in the Mississippi valley. The same name has also 
been applied to the Ulmus alata of the Southern States, and 
has thus led to mistakes. 
~The bark is smooth, dark gray, interspersed with large 
white, ir regular-shaped spots, which | disappear towards the 
termination of the branches. ‘The’ aes is emer | 
