RUNNING STRAWBERRY BUSH 



late, bright green, varying from ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at apex. The flowers are green with 

 a suggestion of pinkish purple, borne on peduncles in 

 the axils of the leaves ; parts mostly in fives. The 

 fruiting capsule is rough, warty, depressed, crimson 

 when ripe, and opens to disclose its scarlet covered 

 seeds. Euonymus amcricanus and Euonymus obovatus 

 are alike in their fruit; the chief specific difference 

 lies in their habits of growth. 



Wahoo, Burning Bush, Euonymus atropurpurcus, is a 

 shrub at the north, but easily becomes a tree and is 

 described among the trees. The plant is very exten- 

 sively cultivated and is worthy of all the attention 

 given it. The small flowers are purple, not green, the 

 fruit is deeply three to four-lobed, and smooth, not 

 warty. When ripe the purplish scarlet capsule opens 

 to discharge the crimson covered seeds. Like all its 

 family it holds its fruit late into the autumn. 



