TkKKS ok TIIK XoKTIlKKN rXITKI) StATES 81 



1. Rhamnus caroliniana Walt. Car(»Iina P.ucktliorn. 

 lA tall thornk'ss shrub or small tree with a ^loliose sweet 

 drupe. Ill wet soil. \'a. and ()hi<) to Kan., Ma., and Tc.x. 



2. Rhamnus cathartica L. Common Buckthorn. A 

 shrub or small tree with ])lack injurious fruit. Somewhat 

 thorny and used for hedges. Tlic fruit yields a dye and has 

 powerful medicinal properties. Introduced from Furope. 

 Eastern states. 



Celustraceae. StatTtree h'amily. 

 '.\h. Euonymus (Tourn.) L. W'ahoo 



Shrubs or small trees with opposite, simple, pinnately 

 veined, serrate leaves, green twigs and central bundle-scars. 



Flowers regular, small; fruit a ."Vo-locular dehiscent 

 capsule; seeds enclosed in a red aril. 



1. Flowers purple; cymes (i-15 tlowered ; winter buds long- 

 pointed with long bud scales. /:. atrofiirpurcits. 



1. 1^'lowers greenish yellow; cymes 3-7 flowered; winter 

 buds very short pointed with short bud scales. E. 

 curopacus. 



'4^ Euonymus atropurpureus Jacq. Wahoo. A high 

 shrul) or small tree with green, obtusely 4-angled twigs. 

 Leaves dark red and fruit very ornamental in autumn. Self- 

 prunes small twigs by basal joints. Wood nearly white. Ont. 

 to IHa.. .Mont, and (^kla. 



1. Euonymus europaeus L. Spindletrec. A shrub or' 

 small tree reseml)ling the preceding. Self-prunes twigs. Cul- 

 tivated from Furope. Escaped. X. ^'.. X. J. and Va. 



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Jlicaccac. Molly h"aniil>. 



:;•; Ilex F. Molly. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate, not two-ranked, simple, 

 pinnately veined, serrate or lobed leaves which are sometimes 

 evergreen; with watery sap; anad with berry-like drupes con- 

 taining several small stones. 



b'lowers small, in axillary clusters or solitary, mostly 

 imperfectly diecious. 



