58 KEY FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF TREES AND SHRUBS 



78. Leaf shining, dark green above, 

 light green beneath, smooth, 

 finely crenate, an upright 

 shrub . . Euonymus 



Euonymus japonica L. 

 78. Leaf duller than the above, 

 often variegated with white, 

 a trailing shrub. 

 Euonymus 



Euonymus Fortunet var. 

 radtcans (Miq. ) Rehd. 

 79. Leaf thin, branches with 2-4 

 corky wings. 



Wahoo Bush 



Euonymus alata (Thunb.) Sieb. 

 79. Leaf thin, long-petioled, ac- 

 cuminate, serrulate,- with in- 

 curved teeth, a shrub or small 

 tree with close, light-grey bark. 

 Spindle Tree 

 Euonymus europaea L. 



80. Leaf rounded at base 8l 



80. Leaf tapering at base 82 



8l. Leaf 1-2 Inches long, smooth 

 & shining above, soft -hairy 

 beneath with star-shaped hairs, 

 fruit blue. 



Arrow-wood 



Viburnum venosum Britton 

 81. Leaf 1-2 inches long, smooth on 

 both sides or hairy only in the 

 angles of veins on under sur- 

 face, fruit blue. 



Arrow-wood 

 Viburnum dentatum L. 

 8l. Leaf 3-lobed, glands on petiole, 

 flat flower cluster, fruit red. 

 High-bush Cranberry 

 VI burnum Opul us L. 

 8l. Leaf 3-lobed, spherical flower 

 clusters, no fruit. 

 Snowball 



Viburnum Opulus var. 

 sterile DC . 



