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French or Avignon berries. Another division 

 includes the species which are without thorns. 

 Ail these plants have their male and female 

 flowers distinct. The last division of Rhamnus 

 has perfect flowers, and dark-purple berries, as 

 for example, the Berry-bearing Alder {JR.fran- 

 gula). The genus Ceanothus is well known 

 from the beautiful C. azureus. The other species 

 have generally the same kind of terminal, 

 upright panicles of feathery flowers, but they 

 are very inferior in beauty. C. americanus^ which 

 has white flowers, is sometimes called American 

 Red-root, or New Jersey Tea. 



ORDER LXI.— BRUNIACE^. 



Small heath-hke shrubs, natives of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



ORDER LXIL— SAMYDEtE. 

 Tropical shrubs or trees with dotted leaves, 

 and inconspicuous flowers. 



ORDER LXIII.— HOMALINE^. 



This order contains the handsome evergreen 

 half-hardy shrub, Aristotelia Macqui ; the 

 flowers are insignificant, but the berries are 



