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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL: 



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in autumn, as soon as their leaves begin to fall ; they should 

 be the shoots of the same year, with a knot of the former 

 year at bottom. 



2. Euonymus Latifolius ; Broad-leaved Spindle Tree. Most 

 of the flowers five-stamined ; bark smooth ; peduncles filiform, 

 cylindrir, many-flowered ; leaves sharply serrate; angles of 

 the capsules sharp. This species rises with a stronger stem 

 than the first species, and grows to a larger size ; the leaves 

 are ovate-lanceolate, about four inches long, and two broad 

 in the middle, opposite, entire, light green, on short foot- 

 stalks ; the flowers come out from the side of the branches 

 upon very slender peduncles, two inches and a half long, 

 branching out into a loose bunch, and the flowers on separate 

 pedicels; petals five, at first white, but changing to purple; 

 the same number predominates in the other parts of the 

 fructification ; the fruit is much larger than that of the com- 

 mon sort, and the peduncles being weak, it always hangs 

 down. This plant was seldom seen in England, until Mr. 

 Miller procured it from France, and is now become very 

 common in the nurseries. Native of Austria, Hungary, and 

 most of the southern parts of Europe. See the first 

 species. 



3. Euonymus Verrucosus ; Warted Spindle Tree. Flowers 

 four-stamined; bark warted ; peduncles filiform, cylindric, 

 with about three flowers. This species differs from the two 

 first, in having the stem and branches warted, the upper 

 surface of the petals covered with a pile consisting of very 

 mall teats ; the antherse rounded, and placed upon their 

 pyramidal filamenta, like the cap of a mushroon. It flowers 

 in May and June. Native of Austria and Carniola. See the 

 first species. 



4. Euonymus Atro-purpureus ; Purple-flowered Spindle 

 Tree. Flowers four-stamined ; peduncles compressed, many- 

 flowered ; stigmas four-sided, truncate. This shrub is about 

 six feet high, with an ash-coloured bark, smooth, and free 

 from tubercles ; the branches are round, and a little com- 

 pressed at their extremities : the leaves are oblong-lanceolate, 

 smooth on both sides, veiny on the back, stand opposite, and 

 are finely serrated on their edges, where they are of a purple 

 tinge, as are also the footstalks; the common peduncles are 

 birlorous, slender, and branchy, the proper ones red. Native 

 of the northern parts of Asia. See the first species. 



5. Euonymus Americanus ; Evergreen Spindle Tree. All 

 the flowers five-cleft; leaves sessile. It rises with a shrubby 

 stalk to the height of eight or ten feet, dividing into many 

 branches, which come out opposite from the joints of the 

 stem. Leaves lanceolate, two inches long, and about three- 

 quarters of an inch broad in the middle, ending in acute 

 points, they are opposite, and continue green all the year ; 

 the flower* are produced at the ends of the branches, and 

 also from the bides, in small clusters, and are succeeded by 

 round capsules, which are closely armed with rough protu- 

 berances. It flower* in July, but seldom produces ripe fruit 

 in England. There is a variety in the nurseries with varie- 

 gated leaves. As they are evergreen shrubs, they deserve a 

 place in every curious garden, and particularly in all planta- 

 tions. It is a native of North America, and is so hardy, that 

 it rarely suffers by the cold of our winters, provided it be not 

 very much exposed. It may be propagated by laying down 

 the young branches in the autumn, observing to tongue them 

 in the same manner as is practised in laying of Carnations ; 

 these will have ma'de good roots in one year, when they may 

 be cut from the old plants, and planted for two years in a 

 nursory, in order to acquire strength ; after which they should 

 be planted where they are designed to remain. 



6. Euonymus Tobira. Flowers five-cleft; leaves oblong, 



retuse, entire; stem shrubby, upright, leafless, branched, 

 scarce a fathom in height; branches alternate, round, upright, 

 leafless ; branchlets alternate, upright, green, smooth, leafy ; 

 flowers at the ends of the branchlets aggregate, in a kind of 

 umbel, upright ; petals five, seldom six, white, smelling like 

 Orange flowers, oblong-ovate, blunt, entire, patulous; sta- 

 mina seldom six : the whole plant is rather milky. Native of 

 Japan, flowering in May. 



7. Euonymus Japonicus. Flowers four-cleft; leaves ovate, 

 obtuse, serrate ; stem shrubby, strict, ash-coloured, naked, a 

 fathom in height; branches opposite, from upright spreading, 

 green, but little leafy ; branchlets decussate, leafy, short, 

 green ; flowers axillary, panicted ; panicle trichotomous, de- 

 compound, divaricate, subfastigiate ; peduncle and pedicels 

 angular, smooth, compressed; corolla four-petalled, white, 

 patulous; petals rounded, concave, entire, a line in length; 

 stamina four. It varies with leaves spotted with white ; the 

 flowers appear in June and July, and the fruit ripens in 

 November and December. Native of Japan. 



8. Euonymus Chinensis. Stem scandent; leaves three- 

 lobed ; peduncles many-flowered. Stem herbaceous, long, 

 climbing by tendrils; flowers white; calix five-cleft, spread- 

 ing; petals five, oblong-ovate, spreading, longer than the 

 calix. Native of China, where it is found near the suburbs 

 of Canton. 



Euparea; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Monogy- 

 nia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five-leaved; 

 leaflets lanceolate, acute. Corolla : petals five or twelve, 

 oblong, narrow, spreading, longer than the calix. Stamina: 

 filamenta five; antheree not described. Pistil: germen 

 roundish, superior; style bristle-shaped, long; stigma simple. 

 Pericarp : berry juiceless, globular, crowned with the perma- 

 nent style, one-celled. Seeds : very many, roundish, small, 

 adhering to a globular fungous free receptacle, in the middle 

 of the berry. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix : five-leaved. 

 Corolla: five to twelve petalled. Berry : superior, one-celled. 



Seeds : very many, adhering to a free receptacle. The only 



species hitherto known is, 



I. Euparea Amoena; which is a procumbent plant, having 

 the appeaiance of Lysimachia Nummularia, but being only 

 one-fourth of the size; the flowers have the colour of those 

 of Anagallis Phcenicea, or Pimpernel, but are many-petalled ; 

 the fruit, which Geertner in one place calls a capsule, and in 

 another a juiceless berry, however it be pressed, will not open 

 with regular valves, and is therefore nearly allied to Trientalis : 

 the seeds have a n-avel in the belly opposite to the embryo. 

 Native of New Holland, and Terra del Fuego. 



Eupatorium; a genus of the class Syngenesia, order Poly- 

 gamia ./Equalis. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: common 

 oblong, imbricate; scales linear-lanceolate, upright, unequal. 

 Corolla: compound uniform, tubular; corollets hermaphro- 

 dite, equal ; proper funnel-form ; border five-cleft, spreading. 

 Stamina: tilameuta five, capillary, very short; nntheree cy- 

 lindric, tubular. Pistil: germen very small; style filiform, 

 very long, two-cleft almost to the goimimi, straight; stigmaf 

 slender. Pericarp; none; calix unchanged. Seeds: solitary, 

 oblong, angular ; down plumose, long, (according to Gsert- 

 ner, pilose, only toothletted or ciliate.) Receptacle: naked. 

 ESSEN. CHAR. Culix : imbricate, oblong; style cloven half 

 wny, long. Down: plumose. Receptacle: naked. This genus 

 consists principally of tall-growing, perennial, herbaceous 

 plants. The greater part of the old sorts are natives of 

 North America: many, however, of South America, and the 

 West Indies ; whence come most of the new sorts. Several 

 are found wild in the East Indies, and one only in Europe. 

 The two first, and a few other species, are shrubby. Some 



