CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS. 
THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS, 
Ceanotuus, Calyx tubular, campanulate, five-cleft, sepa- 
rating transversly after flowering. Petals five, saccate-arched, 
with long claws. Stamens, mostly exserted. Style, mostly 
three-cleft. Capsule obtusely triangular, three-celled, threo 
seeded, surrounded at base by the persistent tube of the calyx. 
Petals scale-like, vaulted. Claws long standing in the five-cleft, cup-form, calyx. 
Stigmas three. Berry or capsule dry, three-grained, three-celled, three-seeded, three- 
parted, opening on the inner side. 
THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, 
Cranotnus Americanus, Leaves oblong-ovate, serrate, three 
veined. Panicles axillary, elongated, 
Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate, three-nerved, pubescent beneath. Panicles 
axillary, long-peduncled, sub-corymbed. 
THE ARTIFICIAL CHARACTERS, 
Cuass Pentanpria. Stamens five. Orver Monocynta. Poly- 
petalous. Flowers inferior, regular. \ Stamens opposite to the 
petals. Shrubs. Stem thorny. Calyx four-five cleft. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
This almost American genus consists of shrubs or shrubby 
plants. The roots of the whole of them are large, reddish, and 
astringent. The leaves are alternate, usually ovate or elliptical, 
serrate or entire, persistent or deciduous. The flowers are white, 
blue, or yellowish in umbellike fascicles, which are aggregated 
at the extremity of the branches. There are several varieties, 
differing principally in the form of the leaves. It is probable 
that the medical properties of all the species are very much the 
same, though one only has attracted attention. The New Jersey 
tea is found in all parts of the United States, in copses and dry- * 
woods, and very abundant on the barrens at the west. The 
plant flowers from June until September, is of very easy culture, 
_ and of very little beauty. ; 
_ The root of the Ceanoraus Amertcanus is large and dark red. 
The stem is shrubby, suffruticose, from two to four feet high, 
lender, with many round, smooth branches, the younger of | 
1 are pubescent. ‘The leaves are three-nerved, rounded, or 
