832 FRANGULACEAE 
—Swamps and low hammocks, Coastal Plain, and occasionally adj. provinces, 
Fla. to Tex., Mo., and Va. —Spr. 
5. SAGERETIA Brongn. Shrubs with diffuse branches. Leaves opposite 
or nearly so: blades of firm-texture, pon d toothed. Flowers perfect. Sepals 
5, keeled within. Petals 5, concave, shor 
clawed. Stamens 5, about as long as the No N 
petals. jos dou an 3 leathery -A SE NH 
nutlets.—About 10 species, mostly Asiatic. | ENS SA > 
S. minutiflora (Michx.) Trelease. Pubes- 
cent, spinescent shrub: leaf-blades ovate or 
em. long: c : 
iori. da about t % as long as the 
oa Au ad Mie tae oe ded mm. in 
diam CB N.)—Ca leareous Tod 
mack nd bluffs, " Coastal Plain, Fla. 3o Mis 
and N. C.—Spr. —The flowers are ui 
fragrant. 
6. RHAMNUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades 
entire or toothed, many-ribbed. Flowers perfect or polygamo-dioecious, green. 
Sepals 4 or 5, keeled within. Petals 4 or 5, commonly concave, clawless, shorter 
than the sepals, or wanting. Stamens 4 or 5, included: anthers acute. Drupe 
berry-like, not lobed, with 3 or 4 nutlets.—About 90 species, of warm and tem- 
perate regions.—Spr.— BUCKTHORNS. 
Fi owers usually dioecious: nutlet deeply grooved on the back ; rapis dorsal: coty- 
ledons leaf-like. . lanceolata. 
Flowers perfect: nutlet not grooved; raphe lateral: cotyledons 
thick. 2. R. caroliniana. 
1. R. lanceolata Pursh. Shrub 1-2 m. tall: do deer Su ae elliptie- 
lanceolate or sometimes oval, 2.5—9 cm. Jong: calyx about . broad: petals 
u 
in diameter.—River-banks and dnd 
hillsides, various provinees, rarely Coastal 
Plain, Ala. to Tex., Ia., and Pa. 
a R. os Walt. Shrub, or tree be- 
ming tal: leaf- blades elliptie or 
slightly o e 5-12 em. long: calyx about 
ELLOW- . POLE 
CAT-TREE.)——Shaded banks and hillsides, 
ae in ealeareous soils, dr reru 
Fla B i ns, and Va.— e bark is 
medici The light pn own qe is 
de ue light but rather hard. 
7. CEANOTHUS L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades usually 
toothed, commonly 3-ribbed. Flowers perfect, white. Sepals 5, keelless. 
Petals 5, longer than the sepals, clawed, the blades hooded. Stamens 5, ex- 
