| Tas. 4660. 
CEANOTHUS.  verrucosus. 
Warted Ceanothus. 
Nat. Ord. RHAMNEH.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus, campanulatus, post anthesin medio circumscissus, 
basi sub fructu persistente, subadherente. Petala 5, parva, longe unguiculata, 
fornicata, ramis 0. Stamina exserta, ante petala. Styli 2-3, ad medium coaliti. 
‘ Bacca exsucca, 3-locularis (rarius 2—4-loc.), cocculis chartaceis 1-spermis basi 
perviis latere interiore dehiscentibus. Semina ovata, sulco destituta.—Frutices 
imermes, foliis ovatis. De Cand. 
| CraNoTHvs verrucosus ; ramis oppositis ad nodos grosse verrucosis, foliis oppo- 
sitis subrotundo-cuneatis orbicularibus v. coriaceis breve petiolatis penni- 
| nerviis nitidis integerrimis vel dentatis supra glabris nitidis subtus minute 
reticulatis areolis villosulis, corymbis axillaribus, rachi nodoso-tuberculata, 
floribus pallide purpureo-ceruleis. 
CEANOTHUS verrucosus. Nutt. in Torr. et Gr. Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 267. 
The discovery of this pretty and, as it proves, hardy evergreen 
shrub is due to the venerable Mr. Nuttall, who found it at Santa 
Barbara, Upper California. Our plants are derived from the 
Horticultural Society, who appear to have received the seeds 
from Hartweg, while he was in California, under the name of 
“ €. tntegerrimus ;” but by that name he could not intend the 
plant so called of Hooker and Arnott, in the ‘ Botany of Beechey’s 
Voyage.’ The plants have borne the open air in the Arboretum 
at Kew for two winters, and flower readily in April and May. 
Our specimens have'been carefully compared with Mr. Nuttall’s 
original ones, and they seem entirely to agree. — The foliage in 
our plants is rather larger and generally more orbicular, a change 
that may be due to cultivation ; and in both the leaves are very 
variable, even on the same specimens. Our flowers are very pale 
purplish-blue. They would appear “ white” in the dried plant, 
as described by Torrey and Gray. 
JULY, lst 1852. 
