150 KEY AND FLORA 
57. CELASTRACEZ. Wauoo Family 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves simple, oppo- 
site or alternate. Flowers small, in cymes. Calyx small, 
4-5-lobed, persistent. Petals 4-6, short. Stamens 4-6, alter- 
nate with the petals and inserted with them on a disk. 
Ovary sessile, 3-5-celled ; style entire or 3-5-cleft ; ovules 2 in 
each cell. Seeds usually covered with an appendage (aril) grow- 
ing from the hilum. 
I. EVONYMUS L. 
Shrubs with 4-angled branches. Leaves opposite. Flowers 
in axillary, peduncled cymes, purplish or greenish, small. 
Sepals and petals 4-5, spreading. Stamens as many as the 
petals, short. Ovary 3-6-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. 
Seeds inclosed in a red, fleshy pulp.* 
1. E. atropurpureus Jacq. Wanoo. A tree-like shrub 10-15 ft. 
high. Leaves oval to ovate, taper-pointed, finely serrulate, minutely 
downy petioles }-in. Jong. Peduncles slender, 3-forked, several-flow- 
ered. Flower purplish. Capsule deeply 8-5-lobed, smooth. River banks. 
2. E. americanus L. Strawserry Busu. A shrub 3-8 ft. high. 
Leaves short-petioled, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or taper-pointed 
at the apex, finely serrulate, smooth or slightly hairy. Peduncles 
axillary, slender, 1-3-flowered. Flowers greenish. Capsule 3—5-angled, 
warty. In low, shady woods. 
3. E. obovatus Nutt. Runninc StrRaAwzBeERRY Busy. A low shrub, 
the trailing and rooting branches not usually rising more than 1 or 
2 ft. from the ground. Leaves thin, obovate or oblong, mostly taper- 
ing to the base. Flowers and fruit nearly as in FE. americanus. In 
damp woods. 
II. CELASTRUS L. 
A woody, twining shrub. Leaves alternate. Flowers dic- 
cious or somewhat moncecious, small, greenish, clustered at 
the ends of the branches. Pod 3-celled, 3-valved, looking like 
an orange-colored berry, which on opening shows the scarlet 
arils of the seeds. 
1. C. scandens L. Waxworx, Crimpine Bittersweet. Climb- 
ing 10-15 ft. Leaves ovate-oblong, 2-4 in. long, finely serrate, 
taper-pointed. In thickets and along fences; also planted for the 
showy scarlet seeds, which retain their color for many months. 
