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at their joints. The leaves are oblong, rough and 
waved on their edges. The flowers are produced at 
the ends of the branches, in loofe panicles, and are 
of a white colour, mixed with red, dividing at the top 
into five parts, and fpreading open in form of a flan 
EUONYMUS. 
The SPTNDLE TREE. 
Clafs 5. Order 1. Pentandria Monogynia. 
* | ^HE Empalement is compofed of one leaf, five-parted, and 
X plane : the divifions are roundiili and concave. 
The Corolla confifts of five petals, ovate, plane, fpreading and 
longer than the calyx. 
The Filaments are five, awl-ihaped, ereft, lhorter than the co- 
rolla, and placed on the germen as a receptacle. The An- 
them are twin. 
The Germen is fliarp pointed. The Style is fhort and Ample. 
The Stigma is obtufe. 
The Seed-veJJel is a capfule, fucculent, coloured, pentagonal, 
with five angles, five cells and five valves. 
The Seeds are folitary, ovate and covered with a berry’d Aril- 
lus. 
Obf. In fome fpecies one fifth part of the fru&ification is taken 
away. 
The Species with us , are , 
I. Euonymus carolinenfis. Carolinian Spindle 
Tree . 
This fhrub grows to the height of eight or ten 
feet, dividing into many oppofite branches, the 
young fhoots are fome what quadrangular and mark- 
ed longitudinally, with green (tripes. The leaves 
are placed oppofite, and are oval, (harp pointed, and 
finely and (lightly fawed on their edges, of a deep 
green 
