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30. STAFF-TFiEI] FAMILY. Order CELASTRACE.E. 

 Woody plants, with simple alternate or opposite leaves; the divisions of the calyx and 

 the petals both overlapping in the bud; the stamens as many as the petals (1 or 5) and 

 alternate with them, inserted on a thick expansion of the receptiicle (disk) Aviiich fills the 

 bottom of the calyx. Pod colored, of 2 to 5 mostly one-seeded cells, showy Avhen ripe iu 

 autumn, especially when they open and display the seeds enveloped in a pulpy scarlet aril. 



Flowers polygamous or nearly dioeciou?, wlilte, in racemes: disk cup-shaped: style long. 

 Fod globular, orange-yellow. Leaves alternate. Our only species is a tv/in- 



ing shrub, sometimes called Bittersweet, (Celdsinis) "Waxwork. Ou-oif-Un^ 



Flowers perfect, flat, dull green or dark purple, in axillary racemes: disk flat, covering 

 the ovary, and bearing 4 or 5 very short stamens, the short style just rising 

 through it. Pods red, lobed. Shrubs: leaves opposite, {Euonymiis) BuuxiXG-r.usii 



Pods smooth, strongly lobed, '^r Spixdlk-tkee. 



Pods roundish, rough, {Euonymus) STUAWiiEiiKY-uutJir. A-GiteX 



31. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. Order SAPIXDACEiE. 

 The proper Soapberry family belongs mostly to warmer climates ; bnt wo have 



shrubs and trees belonir- 

 ing to three of its sub- 

 families : 



L DLADDERNUT Sur- 

 fa:mily. Flowers regular and 

 perfect. Stamens 5, as many 

 as the petals, and alternate 

 with them. Seeds bony. 

 Leaves opposite, pinnate or 

 with 3 leaflets, having stipule?, 

 and also little stipules (st'tpels) 

 to the leaflets. 



Shrub: flowers white in racemes. Fruit of 3 bladdery 

 pods united. {StcqjJvjlki) Bladdekxut. 



II. HORSECHESTNUT Subfamily. Flowers po- 

 lygamous, some of them having no good pistil, mostly 

 irregular and unsymmetrical. Calyx bell-shaped or 

 tubular, 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, with claws, on tho 

 receptacle. Stamens generally 7, long. Style one. 

 Ovary 3-celIed, with a pair cf ovules in each cell, 

 only one or two ripening in the fruit; which becomes 

 345 Snrne, a leathery 3-valved pod. Seeds very large, like chest- 

 ■ari.e, <iivi.ie(i cnisswjsJ, siiowing ii'iM nuts. iMue Ornamental trccs, with opposite palmate 

 t«-oc.v,>ies.ne:.ci,.eii. 349 s.,'m., p.utiy g.own, o..iy c./seed jgaves, and flowcrs iu tliick paniclcs. 



growing, iofi. l>.ii)e poil bursting. ' i 



Petals 5, spreading; stamens declined: fruit prickly. Leaflets 7, (yEsculus) *Hor.SECnESTNUT. 



Petals 4, unlike, with long claws in the calyx. Leaflets generally 5, {yEsciihis, § Pavia) Buckeye. 



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3!4. Hrd FiicVeye, \e''\ice(\ in si7e. 

 xpuh ca'.yx ai)il l«o |ieials I iktii aw:iy 

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