xx. CELASTRA V CE;E : JEUO'NYMUS. 



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202. /Judnymus latifolitis. 



from its broad shining leaves, and its large red pendulous fruits, with orange- 

 coloured seeds, which, when the capsules open, are suspended from the cells 

 somewhat in the manner that the seeds of the magnolias hang from their 

 strobiles. Even the wood of this species, during winter, is much handsomer 

 than that of any other, the branches being regularly divaricate, with a clean 

 bark, of a reddish green, and with long pointed dark brown buds ; by which 

 alone this species may be distinguished from all the others. Unfortunately 

 for this species, it is generally treated as a shrub, and crowded among other 

 shrubs or trees ; so that it is never allowed a chance of attaining either its 

 full size or its proper shape. 



NA^NUS Bieb. The dwarf Euonymus, or Spindle Tree. 



Identification. C. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Suppl., p. 160 ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 4. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 4. 



Synonyme. E. caucasicum Lodd. 



Engraving. Our Jig. 203. from Messrs. Loddiges's plant. 



Spec. C/iar., $c. Branches smooth, somewhat herbaceous. Leaves lanceolate, 

 entire, nearly opposite. Flowers 4-cleft, from 1 to 3 on a peduncle. {Dec. 

 Prod.) A trailing undershrub, with the aspect of the widow wail (Cneorum 

 tricoccum). Northern Cau- 

 casus. Height 1 ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1830. Flowers 

 greenish white ; July and Au- 

 gust. Fruit ? ; ripe ?. Shoots 

 slender, recumbent, and with 

 the leaves of a deep green. 



A very neat little plant, apparently quite hardy, and well adapted for rock- 

 work. 



& 5. E. ATROPURPU N REUS Jacq. The dark-purple-flowered Euonymus, or 



Spindle Tree. 



Identification. Jacq. Hort. Vind., 2. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 4. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 5. ; Tor. and Gray, 



1. p. 257. 

 Synonymes. E. caroliniensis Marsh. Arb. Amer. No. 1. ; and, probably, E. latifblius Marsh. Arb. 



Amer. No. 2. ; Burning Bush, Amer. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Hort. Vind., 2. t. 120. ; Schmidt Arb., t. 73. ; and our fig. 204. 



. Char., $c. Branches smooth. Leaves stalked, lanceolate, serrated. 



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