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acute or rounded at base, obtusely serrate, acuminate, smooth 

 on both surfaces, with a slight down on the mid-rib and veins 

 above, the veins very prominent beneath. The flowers are on 

 short stems in the axils of the lower leaves of the recent shoots. 

 The tube of the calyx is cup-shaped with the segments spread- 

 ing. The fruit is black, fleshy, somewhat pear-shaped. Flow- 

 ers in May and June. 



XXXI. 2. THE JERSEY TEA. CEANO^THUS. L. 



Shrubs, or somewhat shrubby plants, not thorny. Roots 

 large, reddish, astringent. Leaves alternate, commonly ovate, 

 or elliptical, serrate or entire. Flowers white, blue or yellow- 

 ish, in umbel-like fascicles, which are aggregated at the ex- 

 tremity of the branches. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft; the upper 

 portion at length separating by a transverse line ; the tube ad- 

 hering to the base of the ovary. Petals 5, longer than the 

 calyx, saccate and arched, on long claws. Stamens projecting. 

 Disk fleshy at the margin, surrounding the ovary. Styles 3, 

 sometimes 2, united to the middle, diverging above. Fruit dry 

 and coriaceous, mostly 3-celled, obtusely triangular, girt below 

 by the persistent tube of the calyx, 3-seeded, the cells at length 

 opening. Seeds obovate. 



The New Jersey Tea. C. Americdmis. L. 



A low, bushy shrub, one to three feet high, flowering in June 

 and July, growing on dry, sunny slopes. The stem is of a 

 polished olive green below, striated with brown. Recent shoots 

 of a lively green, turning brown, on drying, smooth, or some- 

 times downy. The leaves are 2 to 2\ inches long, and 1 to 1£ 

 wide, conspicuously 3-ribbed, on short footstalks, oblong-ovate, 

 tapering gradually to a point, serrate, with the serratures end- 

 ing in a brown, glandular point, smooth above, paler and some- 

 what downy beneath, the down on the footstalk and veins often 

 rust-colored. 



The minute white flowers are in crowded clusters, on the 

 sides, short branches and end of long downy footstalks, which 

 proceed from the axil of the upper leaves, and have one or 



