152 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Flowers many upon a peduncle ; the peduncle 



compressed. Petals orbiculate. Capsules 



angulately furrowed, smooth. (Dec. Prod.) 



A shrub or low tree. Canada to Florida. 



Height 4ft. to 12ft. Introduced in 1756. 



Flowers dark purple ; June and July. Capsule 



crimson. Seeds white, with a red aril ; ripe 



in October. Decaying leaves purplish red. 



Naked young wood purplish green 



Branches slightly 4-sided. Leaves 2 in. to 5 in. 

 long. Parts of the flower usually in fours ; petals 

 roundish obovate. Capsules smooth, deeply 

 lobed. This and the other American species of 

 .Euonymus are rarely found in a thriving state in 

 Britain : as it appears to us, from not being 

 planted in moist shady situations, and in peat or 



Sandy Soil. 2 047~ Eu<5n,mus atropurptireus. 



& * 6. E. AMERICA V NUS L. The American Euonymus, or Spindle Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 286. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 4. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 5. ; Tor. and Gray, 1. p. 258 

 Synonymes. E. sempervlrens Marsh. ; E. alternifolius Mcench ; the Burning Bush, Strawberry 



Engravings. Nouv. Du Ham., 3. t.9.; Schmidt Arb. t.75. ; our fig. 205., representing the plant in 

 flower ; and fig. 206., representing it in seed, with the warty capsule. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches smooth. Leaves almost sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 sawed. Flowers 1 to 3 on a peduncle. Petals sub-orbiculate. Capsule 

 echinately warty. (Dec. Prod.) A sub-evergreen recumbent shrub. Canada 

 to Florida, among rocks, and in moist woodlands. Height 2 ft. to 6 ft. In- 

 troduced in 1686. Flowers greenish yellow, tinged with purple; May and 

 June. Capsule deep crimson. Seeds white, with a scarlet aril ; ripe in 

 October. Decaying leaves and naked shoots green. 



205 . Eudnymus americanus 



203. Euonymus amtricanus. 



Varieties. 



E. a. 2 angustifdlius. Var. (3 Tor. $ Gray. (Our 

 fig. 207.) . Leaves narrowly elliptical or oblong, 

 slightly falcate, the margin minutely serrated. Pos- 

 sibly the E. angustifolius of Pursh, which Torrey and 

 Gray had only seen in a herbarium. 

 a. E. a. 3 sarmentosus Nutt. Var. 7 Tor. fy Gray. 

 Shoots trailing and often rooting ; leaves ovate-lan- 

 ceolate. 



*- E. a. 4 obovatus Nutt. Var. d Tor. & Gray; E. 

 obovatus Dec. Prod. 2. p. 4., Don's Mill. 2. p. 5. 

 (Ourfg. 208.) Trailing and rooting; leaves obovate, 

 or oval-obovate, obtuse or slightly acuminate, acute at the 



208. B. a. obov&tus. 



base. 



