92 DESCRIPTIONS OP THE SHRUBS 



thers of the flowers are not sessile and it is not so tall-growing, 3 to 15 

 feet. Winged Burning Bush (77) — Euonymus alitus — from Japan 

 has usually broadly ridged or winged stems. There is an evergreen spindle 

 tree from Japan often cultivated though not fully hardy North ; of this 

 there are a number of varieties with white- and yellow-blotched leaves. 

 Most of the species bloom in June and all from May to July. 



[Seeds (slow) ; twig cuttings.] 



KEY TO THE BURNING BUSHES 



* Leaves evergreen, thick and glossy, 1-3 inches long. (A.) 



A. Erect to 10 feet. Japanese Spindle Tree (78) — Euonymus 

 japdnicus. 



A. Trailing, procumbent or climbing. Climbing Euonymus — 



Euonymus radlcans. 



* Leaves thinner and deciduous. (B.) 



B. Stem broadly ridged with wing-like corky growths. Winged 

 Burning Bush (76) — Euonymus alitus. 



B. Stem usually somewhat 4-angled but not winged. (C.) 

 C. Emit rough, warty, strawberry-like. (D). 

 D. Upright shrub to 8 feet. Erect Strawberrt Bush (79) — 



Euonymus americinus. 

 D. Procumbent to 1 foot. Running Euontmus (75) or Straw- 

 berry Bush — Euonymus obov3,tus. 

 C. Fruit more or less deeply 8-5-lobed. (E.) 

 B. Branches densely warty; erect to 6 feet. Warty Euony- 

 mus (80) — Euonymus verruobsus. 

 B. Branches smooth. (P.) 



F. Elowers purplish with yellow anthers ; low shrub to 2 feet 

 with linear leaves. Narrow-leaved Burning Bush — 

 Euonymus nJinus. 

 F. Elowers yellowish with yellow anthers ; shrub to 15 

 feet. (G.) 

 G. Clusters 3-7 -flowered ; capsule deeply 4-lobed. Euro- 

 pean Spindle Tree (81) — Euonymus europSjus. 

 G. Clusters more flowered ; capsule winged, large ; leaves 

 large, 2-4 inches long. Broad-leaved Spindle Trek 

 (82) — Euonymus latif61ius. 

 F. Flowers purple with purple anthers. Burning Buss (76) 

 or Waahoo — Euonymus atropurpureus. 



