152 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Flowers many upon a peckincle ; the peduncle 

 compressed. Petals orbiculate. Capsules 

 angulately furrowed, smooth. (Dec. Prod.) 

 A shrub or low tree. Canada to Florida. 

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

 Flowers dark purple ; June and July. Capsule 

 crimson. Seeds white, with a red aril ; ripe 

 in October. Deca}ing 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 

 J?u6nymus 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 fcOll. 204r Eudnvmus atropurpiireus. 



SI 6. -E. AMERiCA^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. 253 

 Synoni/7nes. E. sempervirens Marsh. ; E. alternifolius Mcench ; the Burning Bush, Strawberry 



Tree, Amer. 

 Engravings. Nouv. Du Ham., . t.9.; Schmidt Arb. t. 7-5. ; our^g^. 205., representing the plant in 



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



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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 anieric^nus 



+ 



20n. Sudnymus americknus. 



Varieties. 



aib E. fl. 2 angiistifoUus. Var. /3 Tor. ^ Gray. (Our 

 fig. 207.) Leaves narrowly elliptical or oblong, 

 slightly falcate, the margin minutely serrated, 

 sibly the E. angustifolius of Pursh, which Torrey and 

 Gray had only seen in a herbarium. 



at j tt E. a. 3 snrmentdsus Nutt. Var. y Tor. ^- Gray. 

 Shoots trailing and often rooting ; leaves ovate-lan- 

 ceolate. 



ffi .* tt- E. . 4 obovatiis Nutt. Var. h Tor. & Gray; E. 

 obovatus Dec. Prod. 2. p. 4., Do}i's Mill. 2. p. 5. 

 (Our/<g.208.) Trailing and rooting; leaves obovate, 

 or ovaUobovatc, obtuse or slightly acuminate, acute at the 



208. 



B. a. oNu.'itus. 



base. 



