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7. Leaves sharply serrate; nutlets not ridged. 8. 



Leaves crenately toothed: nutlets ribbed. I. decidua. 



8. Fruit red. (Black alder). I. verticillata 

 Fruit yellow. I. verticillata chrysocarpa. 



NEMOPANTHUS. Mountain Holly. 



Deciduous glabrous shrubs with slender terete twigs; 

 small continuous somewhat 3-sided pith; alternate slightly 

 raised crescent- or shield-shaped leaf-scars with a single bun- 

 dle-trace; scarcely evident minute stipule-scars; ovoid sessile 

 buds with about 3 exposed scales; rather small slender-petioled 

 often entire leaves; small whitish polypetalous often imperfect 

 usually solitary flowers long-pedicelled from the axils; and 

 small red berry-like drupes with several hard nutlets. 

 Leaves oblong to elliptical, mucronulate. N. mucronata. 



Family CELASTRACEAE. Spindle Tree Family. 



A small family of little use apart from their employment 

 in landscape work, for which their bright seeds render them 

 attractive. 



CELASTBUS. Bittersweet. 



Deciduous woody twiners with soft pale wood with (in our 

 species) rather large ducts in spring and minute scattered 

 summer ducts, and moderately fine medullary rays; rounded 

 stems; round homogeneous pale pith; alternate slightly raised 

 decurrent half-round leaf-scars with a compound crescent- 

 shaped bundle-trace; minute stipule-scars or persistent fim- 

 briate stipules; round sessile solitary buds with several ex- 

 posed scales; large stalked low-crenate leaves; rather small 

 white perfect polypetalous flowers in axillary clusters; leath- 

 ery orange capsules; and brilliant red-arillate seeds. 

 Fruits few, in short axillary clusters. C. orbiculatus. 



Fruits numerous, in terminal clusters. C. scandens. 



EVONYMUS. Burning Bush. Spindle Tree. 

 Shrubs or small trees with white or yellowish firm wood 

 with innumerable minute diffused ducts and extremely fine 

 medullary rays; more or less angular or winged moderately 



