30 COMMON CANADIAN WILD 1'LANTS. 



3. CEANO'TIIUS, L. NEW JKKSKY TEA. 



1. C. America'nilS, L. A shrubby plant \vith downy bra' 



and ovate, 3-ribbed, serrate leaves. Flowers in white clusters at 

 the summit of the naked flower-branches. Sepals and petals 

 white, the latter hooded, and with slender claws. Pedicels also 

 white. Dry hill-sides. 



2. C. OVa'lis, BigeL, (C. ovatus, Desf., in Macoun's Catalogue) 

 has the leaves narrowly oval or elliptical-lanceolate, finely serrate, 

 and glabrous or nearly so. The flowers, also, are larger than in 

 No. 1. South-western Ontario. 



ORDER XXVIII. CELASTRACEJE. (STAFF-TREE F.) 



Shrubs with simple stipulate leaves, alternate or opposite, and 

 small regular flowers, the sepals and petals both imbricated in 

 the bud. Stamens 4-5, alternate with the petals, and inserted 

 on a disk which fills the bottom of the calyx. Pods orange or 

 crimson when ripe. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Euoii'ymus. Flowers perfect. Sepals 4 or 5, united at the base, and form- 



ing 9, flat calyx. Branchlets 4-sidcd ; lea vns opposite. Flowers axillary. 



2. Celas'trus. Flowers polygamous. Petals and stamens 5. Calyx cup- 



shaped. Leaves alternate. Flowers in terminal racemes. 



1. EUON'YMUS, Touru. SPINDLE-TBEE. 



1. E. America'nus, L. (STRAWBERRY BUSH.) A low, rather 

 straggling shrub, with short-petioled or sessile, leaven, the latter 

 ovate or obovate, pointed. Flowers greenish, with the parts 

 generally in .fives. Pods rowjh-warty, depressed, crimson when 

 ripe. Wooded river-banks and low grounds. 



2. E. atropurpu'reus, Jacq., (BURNING BUSH) occurs in the 

 west of Ontario, and may be distinguished from No. 1 by its 

 greater size (4-8 feet high), its lony-petioltd leaves, purplish flowers, 

 and smooth pods. 



a. CELAS'TRUS, L. STAFF-TREE. 



C. scandens, L- (WAX-WORK. CLIMBING BITTER- S \\KKT.) A 

 twining smooth shrub, with oblong-ovate, serraU-, pointi-d U-avcs. 

 Flowers small, greenish, in terminal racemes. Pods orange- 



