DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 
513 
The Pinnate-leaved Staphylia or Bladder-nut Tree. 
S. pinnata .—A European species long known in shrubberies. 
Leaves with five small leaflets. More vigorous in habit than the 
preceding, and of such singular appearance, when loaded in autumn 
with its seed-capsules, as to be cultivated principally for that 
peculiarity. Like the preceding, it is a smooth-branching shrub, 
throwing up many side-suckers. Naked young wood, greenish, 
with green buds. Flowers same as the preceding sort. Height six 
to twelve feet. 
THE ST. PETERSWORT, OR WAXBERRY. 
Symphoricarpus. 
Some of this very pretty class of little shrubs are also known as 
the snowberries. All of them are nearly related to the tartarian 
honeysuckles. Low native shrubs, with small flowers of several 
colors, and small waxen berries, which hang on through a part of the 
winter. 
The White-berried, or Common Waxberry, S. racemosas, 
is a bushy shrub, with small rose-colored flowers, from July to 
September, and white, oval berries, about a half inch in length. 
The berries, hanging in ropes on the branches, are quite orna¬ 
mental, and much used for large winter bouquets. 
The Red-berried Waxberry, S. vulgaris , has very small 
leaves, flowers, and fruit, but the leaves appear early, and hang 
quite late, and the shrub forms one of the most perfect of minia¬ 
ture trees when growing quite alone; with a breadth double its 
height, but with side-branches projected as boldly, and falling 
gracefully as those of a low, broad, weeping elm ; and all within 
the compass of three feet in height, and four or five feet in breadth. 
Flowers small, red and yellow, in August and September. Fruit 
purple ; ripe in December. 
33 
