84 CELASTRACEJE. (sPINDLE-TREE FAMILY.) 
dark-purple flowers on axillary peduncles. (Deriv. from cv, 
good , and ovopa, name , because it has the bad reputation of poi¬ 
soning cattle. Toum.) 
1. E. atropurpureus, Jacq. (Burning Bush.) Shrub tall 
and upright; leaves petioled , oval-oblong, pointed ; parts of the (dark 
purple) flower commonly in fours; pods smooth , deeply lobed. — New 
York and westward: also cultivated. June. — Ornamental at the 
close of autumn, by its copious clusters of crimson fruit, drooping on 
long peduncles. 
2. E. America. mis, L. (Strawberry-bush.) Shrub low, 
often spreading or trailing ; leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, varying 
to obovate ; parts of the (purplish or green) flowers mostly in fives; 
pods rough-warty , depressed. — Wet places, W. New York westward. 
May-July. — Fruit not copious, crimson when ripe, the aril scarlet. 
Order 34. RHAMNACEiE. (Buckthorn Family.) 
Shrubs or small trees , with simple leaves , small and reg¬ 
ular flowers (sometimes apelalous ), with the stamens as many 
as the valvate sepals and alternate with them , and accord - 
ingty opposite the petals ! Drupe or pod with only one 
seed in each cell , not arilled. — Petals folded inwards in the 
bud, hooded or concave, inserted along with the stamens 
into the edge of the fleshy disk which lines the short tube of 
the calyx and often unites it to the lower part of the 2-5* 
celled ovary. Ovules solitary, anatropous, erect. Stigmas 
2-5, distinct; the styles united. Embryo large, with 
broad cotyledons, in fleshy albumen. — Leaves mostly alter* 
nate : stipules minute. Branches often thorny. 
L. Buckthorn. 
Calyx 4-5-cleft. Petals 4-5, shorter than the sepals, flat- 
tish, or none. Filaments short. Ovary nearly free from the ca¬ 
lyx. Fruit a berry-like drupe, containing 3 or 4 cartilaginous 
nuts. Flowers minute, in short axillary clusters, often polygu* 
mous or dioecious. ( C P dpvo S , the ancient name, from the numer¬ 
ous branchlets.) 
} R - catlUirticus, L. (Common Buckthorn.) Leaves ovate, 
minutely serrate; stamens , petals , and seeds mostly 4. — Naturalized 
in some places, and especially near West Point, New York. Culti- 
