78 TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 
lower surface of the leaves, especially on the midrib, pubescent. 
Small tree, 10 to 30 ft. high; Virginia and south, with very hard, 
white, close-grained wood. Rarely cultivated. 
3. ex monticola, Gray. Leaves de- 
eiduous, ovate to lance-oblong, 3 to 5 in. 
long, taper-pointed, thin, smooth, sharply 
serrate. Fruit red, on short stems, with 
the seeds many-ribbed on the back. Usu- 
ally a shrub but sometimes tree-like; 
damp woods in the Catskills and in the 
Alleghany Mountains. 
I. monticola. 
OrpER XITI. CELASTRACEZ. 
Shrubs with simple leaves and small, regular flowers, 
forming a fruit with ariled seeds. 
Gzenus 19. EUONYMUS. 
Shrubs somewhat tree-like, with 4-sided branchlets, op- 
posite, serrate leaves, and loose cymes of angular fruit 
which bursts open in the autumn. 
1. Euénymus atropurpireus, Jacq. 
(BURNING-BUSH. WaHOoO.) Leaves peti- 
oled, oval-oblong, pointed; parts of the 
dark-purple flowers commonly in fours; 
pods smooth, deeply lobed, when ripe, cin- 
namon in color and very ornamental. Tall 
shrub, 6 to 20 ft. high; wild in Wiscon- 
sin to New York, 
and southward ; 
often cultivated. E. atropurpireus. 
v: 
2, Euédnymus Europ#us, L. (EURo- 
PEAN SPINDLE-TREE OR BURNING-BUSH.) 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrate, smooth; 
flowers and fruit commonly in threes on 
compressed stems; fruit usually 4-lobed, the 
lobes acute; flowers greenish-white; May; 
E. Europzeus. fruit abundant, scarlet, ripe in September. 
