Pac/uslhna. CKLAS'lRACK.i:. 397 



E. obovatus, N'l tt. Ahout a foot hij^li, Willi prostrate rooting stoiiiH and frert nearly 

 siiiijilc sIhmUs: leaves mostly obovale, euneale, usually very olitusc ; the jtetioles often 2 

 lines luu^ : peiluncles mostly ^-.J-llowered ; flowers expanding ahout .'1 lines: jxtals apprnx- 

 i mated : fruit less tuherculate: otherwise resenihliug the preceding. — (ien. i. 15.'}; Don, 

 Syst. ii. 5; Zahel, Gartentl. xxxviii. 638; Gard. & For. ix. .'1»4, f. 51. A". Aiiurirunns, 8, 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258. K. Aiiiericuniis, var. ubovatua, Torr. & Gray a<c. to (Jrav, (ien. 111. 

 ii. 188, t. 171 ; Trelea.se, 1. c. 353. — Canada, in the region of the (ireat Lakes, to lllinoiM 

 aud Keutucky. 



♦ ♦ Fruit not tuherculate: ovules 2 in eacii cell. 



•I— Flowers 4-merous : ovules ascending, with iutrorse rhaphe : fruit deeply lohed : winter 

 huds small, as in the last : Atlantic species. 



E. atropurpureus, JAcy. (Bt:RNiNG Bush, Waiioo.) At length heconiing a small tree : 

 lea\es elliptical or .somewhat ovate, acute at hase, acuminate, minutelv serrulate or biserrii- 

 late, mostly jiuherulent heneath, 2 to 4 inches long, on slightly margined petioles 3 to 9 lines 

 long : peduncles 1 to 2 inciies long, twice or thrice dichotomous, usually 7-13-Howered : petals 

 ohovate, hrown-purple, witii pale margin: style very short. — liort. Vind. ii. 55, t. 120; 

 I'ursh, Fl. i. 168; Don, Syst. ii. 5; Loud. Arb. ii. 49'J, f. 1G7; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 257; 

 15aill. Hull. Soc. Bot. Fr. v. 314, & Hist. Fl. vi. 2 ; Millspaugh, Med. I'l. i. t. 42; Trelea.se, 



1. e. 353; Sargent, Silv. ii. 11, t. 33; Dippel, 1. c. 490, f. 235. K. Carolinensis, Marsh. Arb. 

 43. — New York to tiie Yellowstone, south to Northern Texas; also in Florida, Ibitjel. 

 Una.ssigned names, jjerhaps pertaining to this species, are K. arumiiuitus, K. ruiieutus, and 

 E. heterophyllus, Uaf. New Fl. Am. iii. 59. 



E. EuROP.KUS, L. (Spindle Tree.) Leaves rather small, more finely serrulate to nearly 

 entire, glabrous: peduncles shorter: flowers and fruits fewer and more clustered: petals 

 greenish white : ovary conically prolonged into an eviilent style : otherwise like the la.st. — 

 Spec. i. 197; Keicheub. Ic. Fl. Germ. vi. t.309, f. 5134; Ett. & Pok. Physiotypia PI. Austr. 

 V. t. 4G3 ; Britt. Sterns & Poggeni). Prelim. Cat. N. Y. 11; Trelease, 1. c. 353. — Persi.stent 

 iu old gardens about eastern cities. (Introd. from Eu.) 



•i— -i— Flowers 5-merous, purple : ovules descending, with extrorse rhaphe : fruit not deeply 

 lohed : winter buds large (2 to 5 lines long) : glabrous species of the Pacific coast. 



E. OCCidentalis, Nitt. A large shrub : winter buds 2 to 3 lines long : twigs whitened : 

 leaves ovate or elliptical to lanceolate, subcordate to mostly acute at ba.se, acute or acumi- 

 nate, irregularly serrulate or bi.serrulate, H to 3 inches long, on petioles 2 to 4 lines long: 

 peduncles an inch long, 1-3-flowered. — Nutt. in Torr. Pac. R. Hep. iv. 74; Trelea.se, 1. c. 

 354. E. atropiirptireus, var. j8 ? Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258. — Oregon to Southern California, 

 :uiil Carson City, Nevada, Anderson. 



E. Parishii, Trelease, 1. c. Weak but rather large shrul) : winter buds 3 to 5 lines long : 

 leaves elliptic-ovate to oliovate, gradually cuneate or abruptly contracted and cuneate at 

 ba.se, olituse or blunt-pointed, finely crenate-serrulate : peduncles 2 inches long, 3-7-flowered : 

 flowers .'somewhat smaller than in the last, to which the .species is clo.sely related. — San 

 Jacinto Mountain, California, Purish. 



2. PACHlSTIMA, Raf. (Name .said to bo from Traxr?, thick, and oTi'y/ia, 

 stigma, from the slightly enlarged stigma.) — Low shrubs with squarish minutely 

 verruoose twigs, opposite erenulate or serrulate coriaceous 1 -nerved rather small 

 evergreen leaves with minute stipules, and few-flowered a.xillary cymes shorter 

 than the leaves. Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 176. Pachystima, Benth. «fe Hook. Gen. 

 i. 3GI ; Baill. 1. c. 30 ; Trelease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 352, '^'A ; Losener 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 211. Oreophila,^\\ii. in Torr. & 

 Gr.ay, Fl. i. 258. — Confined to the mountains of the United States and Mexico. 



P. Myrsinites, Uak. A foot or two high, spreading: leaves often on the same plant from 

 liroiidly (■llipii<:il to oblong-ovate or subsjiatulate, slightly revolufe. nearly entire or crenidato 

 to sh;irpiy serrulate above, obtuse, G to exceptionally 20 lines long, the base rounded or 



