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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. VII, No. 3, 
FALL 
Con- 
Incon- 
% of 
% of 
spicuous 
spicuous 
Total 
1500 
627 
All Colors 
401 
226 
627 
41.8 
100 
White. 
125 
59 
184 
12.26 
29.34 
Violet. 
61 
37 
98 
6.53 
12.44 
Purple. 
59 
29 
88 
5.86 
14.03 
Blue. 
43 
23 
66 
4.4 
10.53 
Green. 
9 
50 
59 
3.93 
9.409 
Yellow. 
141 
43 
184 
12.26 
29.34 
Orange . 
9 
0 
9 
.6 
1.43 
Red. 
20 
8 
28 
1.86 
4.46 
Pink. 
33 
12 
45 
3. 
7.16 
If the percentages of the different colors for each season are 
examined it will be seen that the percentages of white and green 
flow r ers are greatest in the spring and least in the fall, while the 
percentages of violet, purple and yellow flowers are least in*the 
spring and greatest in the fall. 
WINTER KEY TO THE OHIO SPECIES OF EUONYMUS. 
Dale Condit. 
Euonymus. Small trees or erect or trailing shrubs with op¬ 
posite leaf scars; twigs usually four-angled, green or greenish; ter¬ 
minal bud present with 6-10 acute or obtuse scales; axillary 
buds single, sessile; leaf scars semicircular to crescent shaped, 
with one bundle scar; stipular scars none, pith solid, rhombic, 
white or greenish; bark more or less bitter; self-pruning scars 
present in some species; fruit a more or less fleshy colored cap¬ 
sule; the seeds with a brilliantly colored aril. 
1. Low, trailing, ascending or erect, shrubs, often rooting from the stem; 
apical pair of bud scales usually much longer than the other pairs 
and forming a slender conical point; bud scales thin, flexible; cap¬ 
sule tuberculate. 2. 
1. Small trees; bud scales thickened and having an elevated keel; ter¬ 
minal buds transversely four-angled, short and obtuse or long and 
acute; capsule smooth. 3. 
2. Trailing decumbent shrubs, seldom rising 2 feet above the ground and 
rooting from the prostrate stems; bud scales obtuse; twigs soft and 
flexible. E. obovatus Nutt. Running Strawberry Bush. 
2. Erect or ascending shrubs 2-8 feet high; bud scales more acute, thin. 
E. americanus L. American Strawberry Bush. 
3. Buds acute, long; bud scales acute; bark very bitter; aril red. 
E. atropurpureus Jacq. Wahoo. 
3. Buds obtuse, short; bud scales usually very obtuse; bark only slightly 
bitter; aril yellow. E. europaeus L. Spindle-tree. 
