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SPINDLE TREE 



3 folds. Style simple, stigma undivided. Fruit globose, 

 about the size of a pea, passing through red to black. 



[Rhamnus Gatharticus also comes here, but the flowers 

 are unisexual, and are therefore treated on p. 269.] 



Fig. 123. Spindle Tree, Euonymus europceus. 1, flowering shoot; 

 2, 3, flowers from above and below; 4, fruit; 5, the same in section; 

 6 8, seed whole and in section, p. 309 (Wi). 



