190 THE FLORA. 



Fruit covered with prickles. Totals 4 or 5, spreading 1,2 



Frail smooth. Petals 4, erect, 2 of them clawed 3-5 



1 JE. Hippocasta'neum. Horse Chestnut. Leaves of 7, obovato leaflets Petals 6 



Fruit prickly. Panicles large, handsome, t 



2 JE. glabra. Ohio Hucktye. Leaflets 5, oval or oblong. Petals 4. Tree ill 



scented. Flowers yellowish. Seed mahogany-color. " W. 



3 &. fia'va. Bi<j Jiudvye. A large tree, with pale-yellow flowers. Leaflets 5-7 



Petals very unequal, longer than stamens. \V. 



4 2B. Pa 'via. Red-fl-iwei-ed J>. Shrub S-lOf. Fls. large, red, in thyrse-liKe racemes. 



Very handsome. S. t 



5 IB. parviflo'ra. White Ji. Shrub 2-3f. Petals 4, somewhat alike, spreading, 



thrice shorter than the stamens. S. 



2. STAPHYLE'A. Bladder-nut 



Flowers perfect. Sepals 5, colored like the 5 petals. Stamens 5. 

 Styles 3. Capsules 2 or 3, with thin, inflated walls. Shrubs. 



1. S. trifo'lia. Ternate B. A handsome shrub, 6 8f. liigh. Leaves ternate, leaflets ovate. 

 Racemes pendulous. Petals ciliate below. Fruit very large, 8-celled, inflated like 

 bladder. 



ORDER XLII. CELASTRACE2B. Staff-trees. 



Shrubs or small trees, with simple leaves; 

 flowers small, 4 or 5-parted, witli imbricated sepals and petals; 

 stamens perigynous, alternate with the petals. Style 1 ; 

 fntit 2-5-celled. S'eds enclosed in a fleshy aril. 



1 Staff-tree. Shrubs climbing and twining. Leaves alternate, oblong, 



acuminate, serrate. Capsule 3-valved. Seeds with a scarlet aril. CELAS'TRUS. 



2 Burning Hush. Erect or trailing. Leaves opposite, serrate. Flowers 



perfect, greenish or purplish. Pods lobed, red ; arils scarlet ECOK'TMUS. 



ORDER XLIII. EIIAMXACE^E. Buckthorns. 



SJirnbs or small trees, with simple mostly alternate leaves ; 

 calyx valvatc. Stamens opposite to the small petals, both perigynous. 

 fruit 2-5-celled, cells each 1-seedecl. We have 4 genera. 

 Buckthorn. Leaves alternate. Petals shorter than the calyx or none. 



Flowers axillary. Fruit blackish, drupe-like, seeds 2-4. RHAMHUB. 



8 Jtrsfy Tea. Leaves alternate. Petals longer than the calyx, clawed, 



white in our species. Flowers in dense terminal clusters. CEANO'THFS. 



8 Svjiple Jack. Leaves alternate. Petals not clawed. Flowers in small 



terminal panicles. Drupe purple. Shrub climbing, twining, BERCH* MIA, 



4 A slender trailing shrub with opposite leaves and spiked fls. South. SJUJEKE'T.IJL. 



