1 6 Staff-Tree (Celastracece). [No. 4 



(2) Genus Eu6nymus, Tourn. 



Fig. 7. — Trailing Strawberry-Bush. E. obovatus, Nutt. 



Flowers, flat, regular, about three blossoms on one long 

 stem springing from the axils of the leaves. Petals, 

 four or five (usually five), distinct, rounded. Sepals, 

 four or five, united. Stamens, alternate with the 

 petals and inserted with them on a disk which lines 

 the base of the calyx and sometimes covers the seed- 

 case. Filaments, short. Seed-case, three- to five- 

 celled, not adhering directly to the calyx, but more 

 or less to the disk. 



Leaves, about two inches in length, simple, opposite, 

 toothed, reverse egg-shape to oblong. Apex, blunt 

 or pointed. Base, pointed. 



Branchlets, four-sided. 



Fruit, five-lobed, splitting when ripe and showing within 

 the scarlet cover of the seeds. Seeds, few. A 

 capsule. 



Found, in low, damp ground from New York, west and 

 south. 



A trailing or drooping woody vine rooting at the joints. 



No. 5.— Family VITACE^E. (Vine Fam.) 



Flowers, greenish, small, regular, in clusters opposite the 

 leaves ; pistillate and staminate forms often separate. 

 Petals, four or five, distinct or cohering at the top, 

 soon falling. Calyx, minute. Stamens, as many as 

 the petals and opposite them, inserted on a disk 

 which surrounds the seed-case. Filaments, slender, 

 Seed-case, free, two-celled, usually four-seeded. Style, 

 short or none. Stigma, slightly two-lobed. 



