Burning Bush (Euonymus atro-purpureus) is a small ornamental shrub of North America, with oblong leaves, deep purple flowers, and scarlet smooth capsules; its congener, E. americanus, has scarlet prickly capsules. The French Buisson ardent is a red hawthorn (Crataegus Pyracantha).
Burning Bush
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 570
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