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CSANOTHUS AMERICANUS. NeW-JeRSEY 



Tea* 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. 

 Petala^ faccata, fornicata. Bacca ficca, 3-locularis, 3-fpemia. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



CEANOTHtJS amerkanus s foliis cordato-ovatis acuminatis 



triplinerviis, paniculis axillaribus elongatis. IVilld. Sp. PL 



x. p. 1114. Hort. Kew. edit. alt. 2. p. 22. 

 CEANOTHUS amerkanus £ foliis trinerviis. Sp. PI. 284. 



Mill. Icon. t. 86. 

 CEANOTHUS amerkanus • foliis ovalibus, ferratis, fubtus 



tomentofis : racemis compofite confertifloris, ob ramulos 



aphyllos quad longe pedunculatis, Michaux Fl. Bor. Amer. 



1. p. 154. Duham. Arb. 1. p. 138. /. 51. IVangenh. Amer. 



112. /. 31./ 70. IVilld. Arb. 54. Plenck Icon. 143. Zont. 



Icon. 167. Trao Ehret. 53. /. 94. Gronov. Virg. 2. />. 32, 



G<*?rt. Sem. 2. p. no. /. 106. 

 CELASTRUS inermis, foliis ovatis ferratis trinerviis, racemis 



ex fummis alis longiffimis. Hort. Cliff. 73. Gronov. Virg. 1. 



EUONYMuS novi Belgii, corni fcemina? foliis. Comvu Hort. 1. 



p. 167. /. 86. Raj. Dend. 69. 

 EUONYMUS, jujubinis foliis, carolinenfis, fruBu parvo fere 



umbellato. Pluk. Aim. 139. /. 28. f. 6. 



The American Ceanothus, which has its name of New* 

 jerfey tea from the dried leaves being ufed as a fubftitute for 

 the Chinefe herb, by the common people of that country, is 

 indigenous to North-America, from Canada to Florida. The 



twigs 



