NEMOPANTHUS ^^'^ 



1. N. mucronata (L. ) Trel. Wild Holly . Erect shrub, 0. 3-3 

 m. high, with ash-colored bark; twigs slender, glaucous-purplish, 

 becoming gray; pith small, continuous; fruits red or pale yellow. 

 Swamps, Newfoundland to Minnesota, south to niinois, Ohio and 

 West Virginia (Fig. 187). 



EUONYMUS L. (Celastraceae) 



Shrubs or small trees, sometimes creeping, mostly decidu- 

 ous. Branchlets 4-sided or 4-lined below the nodes, usually green; 

 pith rounded or angled, greenish, porous or becoming excavated 

 in older stems. Buds small to fairly large, solitary, sessile, with 

 3 to 5 pairs of scales. Leaf-scars opposite, or the members of 

 pairs somewhat separated, half-elliptical; bundle-trace 1; stipule- 

 scars minute, usually indistinct. Fruit a capsule which splits in 

 autumn revealing the crimson or orange-red seeds, persistent 

 into winter. 



a. Twigs rounded, but often 4 -lines I.E. atropurpureus 



a. Twigs 4- lined 



b. Erect bushy shrub 2. E. americanus 



b. Low and procumbent 3.E. obovatus 



1. E_. atropurpureus Jacq. Burning Bush. Wahoo. Shrub up 

 to 4 m. high, with greenish bark; buds oblong, scales about 5, ob- 

 long, loose; pods smooth. Rich woods, Ontario to Montana, south 

 to Alabama and Oklahoma; cultivated and naturalized elsewhere 

 (Fig. 188). 



2. E. americanus L. Strawberry Bush . Low shrub, upright 

 or straggling, 2. 5 m. high, glabrous; branches green; pods warty, 

 on a slender stalk. Rich woods, Florida to Texas, north to New 

 York, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma (Fig. 189). 



3. E. obovatus Nutt. Trailing Strawberry Bush . Trailing 

 shrub with rooting branches; upright branches 3-6 dm. high, green; 

 buds fusiform; pods warty. Rich woods. New York to Michigan, 

 south to Tennessee and Missouri (Fig. 190). 



PACHISTIMA Raf. (Celastraceae) 



Low evergreen shrubs. Branchlets very slender, somewhat 4- 

 sided, the bark becoming transversely-checked; pith minute, round, 

 porous. Buds solitary, sessile, ovoid, appressed, small, the 

 lateral with about 2 pairs of scales, the terminal larger with more 

 visible scales. Leaves small, nearly sessile. Leaf-scars opposite. 



