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CEANOTHUS. 



The Greek name for a thorn bush. Small trees or shrubs, with alternate Ivs. 



1. R. catiia'rticus. 



Flmorrs totrandrous ; slinih erect, with thorny IraJiches ; leaves ovate, doub- 

 ly serrate ; flowers polygamous and dioecious, fascicled ; fruit sub-globose, 

 4-seeded. A shrub, 10 — 15 feet high, in mountains and woods. Leaves near- 

 ly smooth, in crowded clusters at the ends of the hranchlets. Flowers small, 

 numerous, green. Sepals reflexed ; petals entire. Fruit black, globose, and 

 with the inner bark, powerfully catliartic. This shrub is sometimes used for 

 hedges. Buck Thorn. 



2. R. ALNIFO'LIUS. Viler. R. franguloides. Mx. 

 Flowers mostly pentandrous ; shrub erect, with unarmed branches ; leaves 



oval, acuminate, serrate, pubescent on the veins beneath ; peduncles aggre- 

 gate, 1-tlowered ; ca/j/z acute; styles thren, united, very short ; //-m/^ turbin- 

 ate, black. A shrub common in rough hills and pastures. Berries about the 

 eize of a currant, 3-seeded. May. Jn. Mdcr-lcavcd Buclakorn. 



CEANO'THUS. 



Calyx tubular, 5 cleft; corolla of 5, saccate-arched petals; 

 berry dry, 3-celled, 3~sceded. 



A Greek name applied to some prickly plant. Petals with long claws, 

 standing in the turbinate calyx. Caps, tricoccous, 3-parled, opening on the 

 inner side. Shrubby and thornless. 



1. C. Americ'ana. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, serrate, 3-nerved ; •panicles axillary, elongated. A 

 small shrub, with a profusion of white blos.soms, found in woods and groves. 

 Stems 2 — 4 feet high, slender, with reddish, round, smooth branches. Leaves 

 alternate, thrice as long as broad, very downy with soft hairs beneath. Flow- 

 ers minute, white, in crowded panicles from the axils of the upper leaves. 

 Stamens enclosed in the curiously vaulted corolla. The root, which is large 

 and red, is sometimes used for coloring. The leaves have been used as a sub- 

 stitute for tea. Flowers in June. Jersey Tea. 



2. C. ova'lis. 



Leaves oval-lanceolate, with glandular serratures, 3-nerved, nerves pube- 

 scent beneath ; thyrse corymbose, abbreviated. Found on the shores of Lake 

 Champlain. Flowers white, larger than those of the last, and in short or 

 hemispherical panicles. May. Smooth-leaved Ccanothus. 



ORDER XLVIIl. ROSACE J^. The Rose Tribe. 



Cal. — Sepiils 5, raroly fewer, united, often reinlorced by as many bracts. [calyx. 



Cm. — Petals .5, re!,'ular, rarely wanting, in.sertcil on the disk which lines the orifice of the 

 Sta. — Indefinite, usually numerous, arising from the caly.x, distinct. [each other. 



Ot'ct. — Superior, 1 or several, distinct, 1-celled; often coherent to the sides of the calyx and 

 Styles — distinct or united. Fruit a drupe, pome, achenia or follicle. 



A large family, composed of trees, shrubs smd herbs. Fjcaves alternate, often accompa- 

 nied with conspicuous stipules. Flowers regular, often huge and beautiful. The genera 

 of this order are chiefly natives of temperate climates north of the equator. 



Prapfrties. A highly imiiortiint order, whether we regard its delicious fruit, its medicinal 

 products, or the beauty of its flowers. None of its species (excepting those of the Almond 

 tribe) are unwholesome. An astringent principle characterizes the family, residing chiefly 

 ill the bark and the roots. The roots of tiie Blackberry, have been used in medicine as an 



