CL. V.] PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 133 



1. E. cathdrticus. Buckthorn. Thorns terminal ; flowers four- 

 cleft, dioecious ; leaves egg-shaped, acutely serrated ; stem erect. 



A shrub, with spreading branches, each ending in a sharp 



thorn; flowers yello wish- green ; berries globular, bluish-black. 

 The juice of the unripe berry dyes yellow. When ripe they are 

 nauseous and violently purgative. Flowers in May : grows in 

 thickets and hedges : common in England ; rare in Scotland and 

 Ireland. Eng. Bot. vol. xxiii. pi. 1629. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 329. 370. 



2. jR. Frdngula. Alder Buckthorn. Thorns none ; flowers all 



perfect ; leaves entire A shrub, three or four feet high, with 



numerous black branches: flowers five -cleft, whitish: berries 

 dark-purple. The berries before they are ripe dye green. Flowers 

 in May : grows in woods and thickets, in England : frequent. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. iv. pi. 250. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 329. 371. 



35. ETJO'NYMUS. SPINDLE-TREE. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, deeply divided into five rounded, 

 permanent segments. Petals five, egg-shaped, erect, shorter 

 longer than the calyx. Filaments awl-shaped, flat, spreading, 

 than the corolla, arising from the germen ; anthers two-lobed. 

 Germen pointed. Style short, simple ; stigma obtuse. Cap- 

 sule succulent, coloured, five-sided, five-cornered, five-celled, 

 five-valved. Seeds egg-shaped, solitary, enveloped in a succu- 

 lent coat. Named after Euonyme, the mother of the Furies. 



120. 



1. E. Europce'us. Spindle -tree. Prickwood. Flowers mostly 

 four-cleft ; branches smooth ; leaves egg-shaped, pointed, serrated. 



A shrub or small tree, with green, smooth bark: flowers 



small, greenish- white, the first only five-cleft: the fruit is vio- 

 lently emetic and purgative. Flowers in May : grows in hedges 

 and thickets : frequent in England and Ireland ; rare in Scotland. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. vi. pi. 362. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 330. 372. 



36. EI'BES. CURRANT. 



Calyx superior, of one leaf, tumid, permanent, with five ob- 

 long, spreading, marginal segments. Petals five, small, obtuse, 

 erect, from the edge of the calyx. Filaments awl-shaped, short, 

 erect, arising from the calyx ; anthers compressed, two-lobed. 

 Germen roundish. Style cleft ; stigma obtuse. Berry globu- 

 lar, dimpled, one-celled, with two lateral, longitudinal recep- 

 tacles. Seeds numerous, roundish, somewliat compressed. 

 Name given by mistake, it having been applied by the Arabian 

 physicians to a different plant. 121. 



* Without prickles. 



1. R. rubrum. Common Currant. Clusters smooth, pendu- 

 lous ; flowers nearly flat ; petals inversely heart-shaped. A 



bushy shrub, with a smooth deciduous cuticle : clusters simple : 

 petals greenish-white : berries globular, red. Flowers in May : 

 grows in woods and thickets, but seldom, if ever, truly wild. 

 Isle of Isla, according to Lightfoot ; banks of the Tees. Eng t 

 Bot. vol. xviii. pi. 1289. Eng. Fl. vol. i. p. 331. A variety, 

 with clusters somewhat hairy, when in iiower erect, when in fruit 

 pendulous, grows in woods, in Durham, and near Airlv Castle. 



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