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ILICACEAE. 



Vol. II. 



2. NEMOPANTHUS Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 96. 1819. 



[Ilicioides Dumont. Bot. Cult. 4 : 127. pi. 4. Hyponym. 1802.] 



A glabrous shrub, with slender-petioled oblong deciduous leaves, and polygamo-dioecious 

 axillary small flowers. Calyx o£ the staminate flowers none, that o£ the pistillate minute, 

 4-S-toothed. Petals 4 or S, distinct, linear. Stamens 4 or 5, free from the corolla; anthers 

 ovoid-globose. Ovary 3-S-lobed, 3-S-celled; ovules i in each cavity; stigmas 3-5, sessile. 

 Drupe subglobose. Nutlets 4 or 5. [Greek, referring to the slender pedicels.] 

 A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 



I. Nemopanthus mucronata (L.) Trelease. Wild or Mountain Holly. 



Fig. 2796. 



Vaccinium mucronatum L. Sp. PI. 350. 1753. 



Nemopanthus fascicularis Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 : 97. 

 1819. 



N, canadensis DC. Mem. Soc. Gen. i : 450. 1821. 



Nemopanthes mucronata Trelease, Trans. Acad. St. 



Louis 5 : 349. 1889. 

 Ilicioides mucronata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 217. 



1894. 



A shrub, 6°-i5° high, with ash-colored bark. Leaves 



elliptic or obovate, ¥-2' long, acutish or mucronate 



at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, entire or 



with a few small teeth; petioles 3"-6" long; flowers 



of both kinds solitarj', or the staminate sometimes 



2-4 together; pedicels very slender, often li' long; 



drupe red, 3"-4" in diameter; nutlets faintly ribbed. 



In swamps, Newfoundland to western Ontario, south 

 to Wisconsin, Indiana and Virginia. Cat-berry. Brick- 

 timber. May. 



Family 77. CELASTRACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 119. 1836. 



Staff-tree Family. 

 Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple. 

 Stipules, when present, small and caducous. Flowers regular, generally per- 

 fect, small. Pedicels commonly jointed. Calyx 4-s-lobed or parted, persistent, 

 the lobes imbricated. Petals 4-5, spreading. Stamens inserted on the disk, 

 alternate with the petals. Disk conspicuous, fiat or lobed. Ovary sessile, its 

 base distinct from or confluent with the disk, mostly 3-5-celled ; style short, thick ; 

 stigina entire or 3-5-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, anatropous. Fruit (in our 

 species) a somewhat dehiscent 2-5-celled pod. Seeds arilled; embryo large; 

 cotyledons foliaceous. 



About 45 genera and 375 species, widely distributed in warm and temperate regions. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Large erect or decumbent shrubs ; fruit 3-5-lobed ; aril red. 1. Euonymus. 



Low spreading shrubs ; fruit oblong ; aril whitish. 2. Pachystima, 



Leaves alternate ; woody vine. 3, Celastrus. 



I. EUONYMUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 197. 1753. 



Shrubs, with opposite petioled entire or serrate leaves, and perfect cymose axillary greenish 

 or purple flowers. Calj'x 4-5-cleft, the lobes spreading or recurved. Petals 4 or 5, inserted 

 beneath the 4-5-lobed disk. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the disk. Ovary 3-5-celled; style 

 short or none ; stigma 3-S-lobed. Capsule 3-5-celled, 3-5-lobed, angular, rounded or winged, 

 the cavities 1-2-seeded, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds enclosed in the red aril. [Ancient name 

 of the spindle-tree; also spelled Evonynms.'] 



About 65 species, of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, 2 others occur in Cali- 

 fornia. Type species : Euonymus europaeus L. 

 Pods tuberculate ; low shrubs ; flowers greenish pink ; leaves subsessile. 



Erect or ascending; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. i. E. amertcanus. 



Decumbent, rooting at the nodes ; leaves obovate, obtuse. 2. E. obovatus. 



Pods smooth ; high shrubs; leaves distinctly petioled. 



Flowers purple; cymes 6-15-flowered. 3. E. alropurpureus. 



Flowers greenish yellow ; cymes 3-7-flowered. 4. E. europaeus. 



