. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. GELASTRAGEyE-STAFF TREE FAMILY CLIMBING BITTER-SWEET Celdstrus scdndens. Celastrus, an ancient Greek name for some evergreen. Twining shrub, common along streams and in thickets, from Maine to Manitoba and southward. June. Stem.—Climbing to twenty feet or more. Leaves.—Alternate, ovate-oblong, finely- serrate, pointed. Flowers.—Small, greenish-white, poly- gamo-dioecious in axillary or terminal racemes. Sepals.—Small, five-cleft. Petals.—Five, stamens five; both insert
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. GELASTRAGEyE-STAFF TREE FAMILY CLIMBING BITTER-SWEET Celdstrus scdndens. Celastrus, an ancient Greek name for some evergreen. Twining shrub, common along streams and in thickets, from Maine to Manitoba and southward. June. Stem.—Climbing to twenty feet or more. Leaves.—Alternate, ovate-oblong, finely- serrate, pointed. Flowers.—Small, greenish-white, poly- gamo-dioecious in axillary or terminal racemes. Sepals.—Small, five-cleft. Petals.—Five, stamens five; both inserted on the margin of a cup-shaped disk which lines the base of the calyx. Ovary.—^Two to four-lobed; two to four- celled; style thick; stigma lobed. Capsule.—Orange-yellow, dehiscent by two to four valves, each containing one or two seeds enclosed in a fleshy scarlet aril. Climbing Bitter-sweet is a very vigor- ous twining shrub, leafy in summer and • Climbing Bitter-sweet. Ceiisims p , , • r 1 scdndens m autumn, ripenmg a mass of beautiful, berry-like fruit, orange and crimson, which remains upon the branches well into the winter. Eudnymus rddicans is a Japanese climbing shrub of the Staff Tree Family. The climate of northern Ohio seems not particu- larly favorable to its development; it lives, but does not thrive; at the south it flourishes apace. 269. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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