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3. Ilex decidua Walter. Deciduous Holly. A shrub or 
small much branched tree with thin warty bark. Leaves obo- 
vate, thick, deciduous, notched or blunt at the apex, light 
green, sparingly serrate, wedge-shaped at. base.. Flowers stam- 
inate and pistillate. Fruit red, or orange colored, globose 
drupes.. Used for decoration but less prized than the preced- 
ing species. 
In lew ground, Virginia, Illinois, Kansas, Florida and Texas. 
CELOSTRACEAE Lindley. 
EKuonymus L. Burning Bush. 
Euonymus atropurpusens. Commonly a shrub, but some- 
times a small tree 20’-25’ high and 4’-6’ in diameter with thin 
gray bark, spreading branches and slender branchlets. Leaves 
opposite, elliptical, ovate, finely serrate, pointed at the apex, 
2’-5’ long, 1’-2’ wide, ight green and smooth. Flowers in 
axillary cymes. Fruit a fleshy 4-lobed capsule which spreads 
open when ripe exposing the bright red seeds. 
New York to Nebraska, Dakota, Kansas, Florida, Arkansas 
and Texas. , 
A beautiful shrub, particularly in autumn after the capsules 
open. 
AESCULACEAE Lindley. The Buckeye Family. 
Aesculus. The Buckeyes. 
Trees with brown or gray, scaly bark, stout twigs, large 
scaly buds; opposite palmately compound leaves; large showy 
flowers in terminal panicles and three lobed, yellowish green 
capsules. 
Flowers reddish. 
Leaves densely hairy beneath................ 1. A. austrina. 
Leaves’ smooth ‘beneath: Vaksccastis ak ves eb 2s, i. Pavia: 
Plowers “yellowish... sey F 04. es. w bis tie, we ie © + bees ae 3. A. octandra. 
1. Aesculus austrina Small. Southern Buckeye. A shrub 
or small narrow topped tree sometimes 30° high with stout 
branches, light brown, smooth bark and drooping branchlets. 
