8 Addisonia 



corky wings, of a brown color, become more evident, adding a curious 

 as well as attractive touch not seen in other shrubs. It may be rea dily 

 propagated from seeds. The illustration was prepared from a bush 

 which has been in the collections of the New York Botanical Garden 

 since 1905. 



The genus Euony^nus contains about one hundred and twenty 

 known species, distributed in the northern hemisphere, mainly in the 

 central and eastern portions of Asia, with a few in southern Asia and 

 Aui.tralia; in the United States there are but five or six species. 



George V. Nash. 



Explanation of Plate. Fig. 1. — Fruiting branch. Fig. 2. — Seed, X 2. 

 Fig. 3. — Part of a flowering branch. Fig. 4. — Flower, X 4. 



