324 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Euonymus. 
EUO'NYMUS.* Blass, five petals ; Caps, coloured, five-sided, 
five-celled, five-valved : Seed veiled in a fleshy tunic. 
E. Europjeus. Flowers mostly four-cleft: (petals acute: branches 
smooth and even. E.) 
(2?. Bot. 362— FI. Dan. 1069. E.)— Kniph. 5— Trag. 983— Ger. 1284. 1— 
Bod. 783— Lob. Obs. 591. 2—Ger. Em. 1468. I—Park. 241. 1— J. B. 1. 
6 . 201 . 
( Branches smooth, green, cylindrical; the younger quadrangular. Leaves 
having leaf-stalks, (not sessile,) serrated, smooth. FI. Brit. E.) In 
Cornwall it has four stamens. Stackh. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, oppo- 
seed ? the corcle, the true punctum-s aliens of vegetable life, to which the cotyledon is 
subservient; or so constituted with gemma as with equal certainty to renew the species, 
(for plants may not incorrectly be deemed both oviparous and viviparous, seeds being 
the vegetable eggs ; buds the living foetuses, or infant plants); what power caused it to 
sprout upward into the green leaf, and downward into the root ? Who placed the seed in 
the requisite position to do this ?—And as Sturm observes, “ the fields where corn is 
sown may serve to remind us of fields sown with a very different kind of seed. We may 
regard our bodies, when quietly deposited in the earth, as seeds which are to spring up 
and be matured in eternity. We have as little reason to expect that a grain of wheat 
placed in the ground will produce an ear of corn, as that our bodies reduced to dust shall 
become glorious bodies of light and immortality. 
“ The wheat, although it lies awhile in earth, 
And seemeth lost, consumes not quite away ; 
But from that womb receives another birth, 
And wfith additions riseth from the clay. 
Much more shall man revive, whose worth is more ; 
For Death, who from our dross will us refine, 
Unto that other life becomes the door, 
Where we in immortality shall shine.” Wither. 
Nor do the wonderful metamorphoses of insects less aptly illustrate that even that com¬ 
plex organic machine, the human body, after it has been reduced to atoms, may be again 
reared up in a new and more glorious form ; and that, in truth, “ nothing can be too hard for 
Jehovah.” Let it be remembered likewise that “all the butterflies which we see fluttering 
about in the summer months were originally caterpillars. Before they arrive at that stage 
of their existence, they pass through four different transformations. The first state of a 
butterfly is that of an egg ; it next assumes the form of a loathsome crawling worm ; after 
remaining some time in this slate, it throws off its caterpillar skin, languishes, refuses to eat, 
ceases to move, and is shut up, as it were, in a tomb. In this state the animal is termed a 
chrysalis; it is covered with a thin crust or shell, and remains, sometimes for six or eight 
mouths, without motion, and apparently without life. After continuing its allotted time 
in this torpid condition, it begins to acquire new life and vigour ; it bursts its imprisonment, 
and comes forth a butterfly, with wings tinged with the most beautiful colours. It mounts 
the air, it ranges from flower to flower, and seems to rejoice in its new and splendid exist¬ 
ence. How unlikely did it seem that a rough hairy a'aivling worm, which lay for such a 
length of time in a death-like torpor, and enshrouded in a tomb, should be reanimated, as it 
were, and changed into so beautiful a form, and endued with such powers of rapid motion ! 
In such transformations, we behold a lively representation of our own death and resurrec¬ 
tion. Dick. p. 452 . “ A little while he shall lie in the ground, as the seed lies in the bosom 
of the earth; but he shall be raised again and shall never die any more.”— AEcidium 
Rhamni , with capsules spreading, and seeds yellow, is frequently found on these plants ; as 
also on Euonymus Europceus. Mr. Purton affirms that the berties of this species are often 
gathered for the former, though far less efficacious. They may be easily distinguished by 
attending to the number of seeds in the berry. E.) 
* (Obviously from lu and oi/ew, ovriyi, to act upon well, or affect agreeably ; though we 
think Martyn’s suggestion, of the compound being used ironically, not satisfactory. F..) 
