Condit, D. Dale

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6o The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. VII, No. 3,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; axillarybuds 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 scarspresent 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 pairsand 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 andacute; capsule smooth. 3.2. Trailing decumbent shrubs, seldom rising 2 feet above the ground androoting from the prostrate stems; bud scales obtuse; twigs soft andflexible. 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 slightlybitter; aril yellow. E. europaeus L. Spindle-tree.

Winter Key to the Ohio Species of Euonymus

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Winter Key to the Ohio Species of Euonymus

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