SOAr-BEEBY TAMILT. 



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Obs. This is noticed as being one of our most elegant native climbers ; 

 it is highly ornamental when trained upon a trellis-work, or around 

 the supports of a piazza. The fruit presents, in autumn, a most bril- 

 liant appearance, and is a conspicuous object in dry bouquets. The 

 plant is readily propagated by seeds and by layers. The Burning Bush 

 or Spindle Tree (Euonymus atropurpureus, Jacq.) belongs to the same 

 family ; it is an upright shrub with deeply-lobed capsules of a deep red 

 color, and presents almost brilliant appearance after the leaves have 

 fallen. ^ 



Oeder XXn. SAPIXDA'CE^. (Soap-beeey Family.) 



Trees or shruls with opposite or alterEate mostlv compound leaves, no stipules and (often 

 polysamous) mostly irregular and unsymmetrical^^oifers. Petals and sepals 4-5, imbri- 

 cate! in the bud. Stamens inserted on a fleshy disk, commonly more numerous 

 than the petals or sepals, but rarely twice as many. Ovary i-S-celled and lobed. Fruit 

 .capsular or berry -hke. Seeds without albumen ; cotylerlons thick and fleshy. 



Fig. 66 Tt? Clirobing Staff-tree, or Wax-work, (Celastrus scandens). 67. The fruit. 



