60 Staff -Tree (Celastracece) 



very short, alternating with the petals, and inserted 

 on a disk which occupies the lower part of the calyx, 

 and is stretched over the seed-case, partly adhering 

 to it. Seed-case, free from the calyx, two to five- 

 celled, with one to four seeds in each cell. Style, 

 short or none. Stem, of the flower-clusters, slender, 

 one to two and one half inches long. June 



Leaves, two to five inches long, simple, opposite, toothed, 

 variable in shape, oval and oblong to reverse egg- 

 shape. Leaf -stem, one half to one inch long. Branch- 

 lets, four-sided. 



Fruit, very showy, smooth, deeply lobed ; when ripe 

 splitting up and down into three to five valves, and 

 so showing the bright red covers of the seeds within. 

 Cells, three to five. Seeds, few (one to four in each 

 cell), elliptical ; a capsule. 



Found, in shady woods widely distributed, and in cultiva- 

 tion. 



A smooth-barked shrub, six to seventeen feet high, 

 often cultivated, and very attractive in autumn with its 

 abundant drooping clusters of " burning " berries. A 

 medicine of some repute has been prepared from it called 

 "Waahoo." 



Fig. 15. Strawberry- Bush. E. Americanus, L. 



This species differs from the last chiefly in the follow- 

 ing items : 



Flowers, greenish, or greenish-purple, and mostly in fives. 

 Leaves, one to two inches long, nearly stemless. 



Fruit, rough, warty, and depressed. Seeds, smaller and 

 egg-shape or oval. 



