152 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Flowers many upon a peduncle ; the peduncle 
compressed. Petals orbiculate. Capsules 
angulately furrowed, smooth. (Dec. Prod.) 
A shrub or low, tree. | Canada to Florida. 
Height 4ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1756. 
Flowers dark purple; June and July. Capsule 
crimson. Seeds white, with a red aril; ripe 
in October. Decaying leaves purplish red. 
Naked young wood purplish green 
Branches slightly 4-sided. Leaves 2 in. to 5 in. 
long. Parts of the flower usually in fours; petals 
roundish obovate. Capsules smooth, deeply 
lobed. This and the other American species of 
Eudnymus are rarely found in a thriving state in 
Britain: as it appears to us, from not being 
planted in moist shady situations, and in peat or 
sandy soil. 
s # 6. E. amprica‘nus L. The American Euonymus, or Spindle Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 286. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 4.; Don’s Mill, 2 p.5.; Tor. and Gray, 1. p. 268 
Synonymes. E. sempervirens Marsh. ; £. alternifolius Manch; the Burning Bush, Strawberry 
Tree, Amer. . 
Engravings. Nouv. Du Ham., 3, t.9.; Schmidt Arb. t.75.; our fig. 205., representing the plant in 
flower ; and jig. 206., representing it in seed, with the warty capsule. 
Spee. Char., §c. Branches smooth. Leaves almost sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, 
sawed. Flowers 1 to 3 on a peduncle. Petals sub-orbiculate. Capsule 
echinately warty. (Dec. Prod.) A sub-evergreen recumbent shrub. Canada 
to Florida, among rocks, and in moist woodlands. Height 2 ft. to 6ft. In- 
troduced in 1686. Flowers greenish yellow, tinged with purple; May and 
June. Capsule deep crimson. Seeds white, with a scarlet aril; ripe in 
October. Decaying leaves and naked shoots green. 
207. 
205, Eudnymus americanus 3. Eudénymus americanus. 
Varieties. 
uz # E, a. 2 angustifolius, Var. 6 Tor. § Gray. (Our SX 
Jig. 207.) — Leaves narrowly elliptical or oblong, 
slightly falcate, the margin minutely serrated. Pos- 
sibly the Z. angustifolius of Pursh, which Torrey and 
Gray had only seen in a herbarium. 
& « E.a. 3 sarmentosus Nutt. Var. y Tor. § Gray. — 
Shoots trailing and often rooting ; leaves ovate-lan- 
ceolate. 
& a0 E. a. 4 obovdtus Nutt. Var. 6 Tor. & Gray; E. 
obovatus Dec. Prod. 2. p.4., Don’s Mill. 2. p.5. 
( Our fig. 208.) —Trailing and rooting; leaves obovate, 
or oval-obovate, obtuse or slightly acuminate, acute at the base. 
208. B. a. obovdtus. 
