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rowed into a long, slender base, in pairs more or less connate. 

 Flowers several in the axils of the leaves, sessile, appearing 

 whorled. Corolla of a dull purple, tubular, somewhat curved. 

 Berry round, yellow, crowned with the long spreading segments 

 of the calyx, containing three hard seeds. Flowers in June. 

 Perennial. It possesses medicinal qualities. 



68. CEANOTHUS. 



CEANOTHUS AMERIOANUS. L. Jersey tea. 



Leaves heart-ovate, acuminate, triply nerved; 

 panicles axillary, elongated. Willd. 



A small white flowering shrub, not unfrcquent in dry or sandy 

 soils. Leaves two or three inches long, and one broad, finely 

 serrate and tapering into a long point. From the axils of the 

 upper leaves come out leafless branches bearing crowded 

 bunches of minute white flowers. These are followed by dry, 

 three seeded and somewhat triangular berries. The leaves 

 were used, among other substitutes, for tea, during the Ameri- 

 can revolution. Flowers in June. 



69. CELASTRUS. 



CELASTRUS SCANDENS. L. Climbing staff tree. Wax work: 



Unarmed ; leaves oblong, acuminate, serrate ; 

 racemes terminal ; stem twining. Willd. 



A strong woody vine, twining round small trees and climb- 

 ing to a great height. Flowers of a greenish white, in small 

 racemes on the ends of the young shoots. The fruit is a ber- 

 ried capsule. When ripe, the three valves turn backward dis- 

 closing a bright scarlet berry. The valves are of a Ib'ht red 

 colour, partitioned in the middle and finally waved on the edge. 

 About fences and thickets. June. 



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