388 CELASTRACEAE 
Petals 4 or 5, stamens as many and alternate with the petals. 
Flowers usually with petals, sepals, stamens and pistils. Fruit a 
rounded or more or less angular pod which splits at maturity. 
The dominant characters are the regularity of the flowers and the 
equality in numbers of petals and stamens. 
1. EUONYMUS, L. 
Erect shrubs, with opposite leaves and small axillary purple or greenish 
flowers on rather long pedicels, which spring at the leaf-axils. Calyx of 
4 or 5 divisions, flat and spreading. The dise on which the 5 stamens are 
inserted is above the 4 or 5 (5 in our 2 species), petals which are rounded 
and spreading into a flat greenish or purple corolla. The pistil is short 
as are the stamens, The capsule or pod is more or less lobed or angular 
and splits from below upward showing the seeds. 
1. E. americanus, L. (Fig. 7, pl. 91.) Srrawserry Bus. Shrub, 
2 to 5 ft. high, somewhat simple or branching. Leaves, almost without 
leaf-stalks, lance-egg-shaped with finely toothed edges, the veins nearly 
opposite and symmetrical, outer extremity acutely pointed. Flowers 1 
or more on a single rather long pedicel, which is solitary in the leaf 
axil, Petals greenish, generally 5; stamens of the same number alternate 
with petals. Pod or berry rough, warty, bright red when ripe. When 
the pod splits the seeds are seen adherent to the central column or aril, 
which is bright scarlet. 
2. E. obovatus, Nutt. (Fig. 8, pl. 91.) Runnine SrRAWBERRY BUSH. 
A low trailing bush, rising about a foot from the ground. Leaves pear. 
shaped. Flowers similar to the last, but smaller, 3 or 4 on the single 
long pedicel. Low wet places. April-May. 
3. E. atropurpureus, Jacq. Burnina Busu. Shrub, 6 to 14 ft. high, 
with elliptic or long oval Jeaves the borders of which are finely ser- 
rated, outer extremity sharp pointed. Length of leaf about 2 to 5 in. 
Twigs 4-angled. Flowers purple, several on the single long pedicel aris- 
ing at the leaf axil. Pods smooth, deeply lobed, crimson, very showy. 
In copses and borders of woods. June. 
2. CELASTRUS, L. 
Our species a climbing woody vine, bearing an abundance of clusters 
of orange capsules which remain during the winter and are very orna- 
mental. Leaves alternate with small stipules which fall early. Petals 
and stamens, each 5, which are inserted at the margin of a flattened 
disk below which the petals are inserted. Flowers in elongated clusters 
at the ends of the branches. Pod globose, orange-colored when ripe and 
splitting into 3 valves which expose the scarlet seeds. 
C. scandens, L. (Fig. 1, pl. 91.) Brrrersweer. The twining vine 
which in the autumn adorns many of our tall trees with its clusters of 
bright berries. 
Famity VI.—STAPHYLEACEAE. Butapper-nut FAMILy 
In our region only one representative, which is a shrub with 
