154 PENTANDRIA. MOXOGVNIA* 



onlvjl think they are nearly sessile, and remarkably cblong-; 

 the brunches reddish, surviving- the winter, uwd formiiii^ 

 a shrub about 3 feet high= 4. niicroh/wllns. Stem rit^id 

 and nmcli branclied, leaves fasciculated, smooth and 

 lucid, scarcely larger than those of Thymus serpylhim. 

 Chiefly inhabiting the sandy and open pine forests of 

 Georg-ia. 5. *Serpjll!foUus. Decumbent and suftruticosc; 

 branches filiform; leaves small, elliptic-ovate, serrulate, 

 obtuse, petioles and nerves on the undf:r side strigose; 

 panicles pedicellate, axillary, few-flowered; flowers con- 

 glomerated. Hab. Around the town of St. Marys, in Flo- 

 rida. — Dr. Baldwyn. By much the smallest species of 

 tile genus. Leaves and stems not much exceeding those 

 of I'hyme, early leaves somewhat crowded, oval, or round- 

 ish, sacceeding leaves distant, all obtuse and nearly 

 smooth; flowers white, partly capitulate at the summit of 

 a pedicell, 1 and a half to 2 inches long-, only about from 

 12 to 15 together. 



The genus Ceanothus appears peculiar to America; of 

 which there are 5 other species besides the above; viz- 

 1 in New-Spain, 2 in Peru, 1 in the mountains of Jamai- 

 ca, and another species of uncertain locality. The C. 

 asiaticiis, C. circumsciesa of India and C. africanus do 

 not appear to belong to this genus, and C. capsidaris 

 of the isle of Taiieiti in the Pacific, seems to be a Foma- 

 derris. 



230. EUONYMUS. L. (Spindle-tree.) 



Calix 5-parte(l, or 5 cleft, its base inside, co* 

 vered with a flat peltate disk. Petals 5, spread- 

 ing, inserted on the outside margin of the glan- 

 didar disk. Capsule 5-angled, 5-celled, 5-valv- 

 ed, coloured, septiferous in the centre, cells l or 

 2-secded. Seeds calyptrate (or arillate?) 



Erect or rarely subsarmentose shrubs, with quadran- 

 gular branches; leaves opposite, miimtely stipulate; pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary, opposite, 3- flowered, or tricho- 

 tomous and many -flowered. — Flowers often tetrandrous 

 and tetrapetalous, greenish or brown; capsule sometimes 

 3 or 4-celied, crimson; seeds covered with a scarlet puU 

 py urillus. 



Species. 1. K. americanus. /3. sarmentosns. Subsemper- 

 virent; stem sarmentose, often radicant, acutely quad- 

 rangular; leaves subsessile, opaque, ovate-lanceolate 

 acute, obtusely serrv^te, serratures for ihc most part uudu- 



