Ceanothus Le. 
Shrubs or small trees with simple alternate leaves, commonly with the 
midrib and 2 laterals prominent, stipules deciduous, Flowers small but 
showy en masse, in panicles at the ends of naked branches. Sepals 5, 
deciduous, white or bluish. Petals 5, long-clawed, ladle-shaped. ~tamens 
5, Ovary 3-chambered, immersed in the disc, Fruit 3-lobed, splitting at 
maturity into 5 nutlets. 
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Upper surface of leaves dull, not sticky; margin irregularly 
/ serrulate, the teeth blunt J, Se sanguineus 
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Upver surface of leaves glossy and sticky especially 
, when young; margin evenly serrulate, each tooth 
fi 4 \ tipped with a minute gland 2. Ce velutinus 
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1. Ce sanguineus fpursh. Buckbrush. <A rother diffuse shrub 1-3 m, tall, 
the branches often decumbent, she older bark brown, more or less striate 
longitudinally, branchlets green and gleucous, usually tinged with red; 
Commun S- 4} dua. Ure, 
leaves thin, ovate, obtuse, rounded at the base, irregularly serrulate, 
the teeth blunt, uppoer surface dull, the lower pale and glaucous, hirtellous, 
vetioles 1-2 cm. long, the stipules erect, acute 4-5 mm, long; flowers 
faintly fragrant,.vanicles oblong, 5-8 cm, long, borne on second yeer wood, 
the bracts broadly ovate, 4-5 ma. long, soon falling; corolla and calyx 
white, sometimes faintly tinged with rose, or bluish, scarcely 3 m, in 
diameter on filiform flesh-colored pedicels 5 mm, long, 10 mm, in fruit, 
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cansule 3-lobed, each lobe bearing a low ridge on the back, flattened avove, 
varnished, 305-4 mie broed; sceds shiningy’.o mi. long. 
Common throughout our region in open burns, usually at lover elevations: 
valuable as a forage for sheep; freaucntly flowers twice in the same scasone 
Hyve teken by ii. Lowis on vollins Ure 
