260 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. ceanothus. 



Juss. p. 380. Lam. III. t CXXIX. f. 2. Roem, 



8? Schtdt. Gen. 944. Nat. Ord. Rhamni Juss, 



Neiv-Jersey tea. Red-root. 



1. C. americanns L. : leaves ovate-oblong, serrate, trip- 

 Jj-nerved, tomentose-pubcscent beneath ; panicles axillary, 

 on long peduncles. Willd. S/jec. I. p. 1114, Enum» h» 

 Berol. I. p. 254. Duham. Jrb, I. p. 138. t. 51. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1 479. M i c h. Ft. I. p. 1 54. Pursh Fl. I. p. 

 167, Big, BosUp. 57. W a 1 1. Car, p. 101, i? o e w. 4^ 

 Schult. V. p. 295. 



Hoot very large, descending, dark red. Stem shrubby, 2—4 

 feet high ; branches terete ; the younger ones pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate, on short petioles, about 2 inches long, 

 acutely serrate, acuminate, sometimes subcordate at the base j 

 petioles and under surface very pubescent. Panicles on long 

 peduncles, or rather naked branches, oblong; pedicels fascicu- 

 late, about one-third of an inch long. Flowers minute. Seg- 

 jnents of the calyx short, acute. Petals white, deciduous, 

 compressed, curiously vaulted, and enclosing the staniens. 

 Filaments short, incurved; anthers subglobose, didymous, 

 Germen surrounded with a 10-toothed glamlular ring; style 

 persistent. Cafisule (chy berry, Lin.) turbinate, depressed; 

 sometimes 4-celled. Seed one in each cell, oval, corrugated. 



Hab. In woods and copses ; cominon. July. 



The leaves of this shrub are said to have been used as a 

 substitute for Tea during the American Revolution. 



% C. herbaceiis R af. : leaves oval, subserrulate, smooth ; 

 panicles thyrsoid, axillary and terminal. Raf. in Med, Rep^ 

 XI. p. 360. Ejusd. in D esv, Journ. de Bot. I. p. 227. C, 

 permnis Pursh FL I. p. 167. R Qem. ^ S c hu 1 1, V, 

 p. 297. 



Leaves nearly as large as in C. americanus, but smooth. The 



stems scarcely ever renvain over winter, but die down to the 



root. Pursh. 

 Hab. In Pennsylvania, and near the Falls of the Patomac, 



R afi ne s q u e. 



I have adopted Mr. R afi ne s que^ s name of this plant 



on account of its priority. 



17G, EU0NYMU5, Z, 



Calyx 5-parted, or 5-cleft, its base internally bear- 

 ing a peltate disk. Petals 5, spreading, inserted on 

 the outside margin of the glandular disk. Stamens 

 5, Capsule 5-angled, 5-celled, 5-valved, coloured; 

 cells 2-lobed, Seeds m\\2i\.(^. Gen. pi. Z7 3, Nutt. 



