/ 



tf DRlANDRlA 3IONOGYNT.4, 



Our 



erally polygamous, the genus has been retained in this class. 

 •Grows in rich light soils along the sea-coast of Carolina and Geor 

 gia. Rarely found 60 miles from the ocean. 

 JFlowers April—May. American Oiive^ 



CHlONANXmiS. Gen. pl. 26. 



9 



Corolla 4-fida ; lacinils [ Corolla 4 cleft ; seg- 

 longissimis. Drupce iiu- merits very long. Jslut oi 

 cleus striatus. | the drupe striated. 



1. Vjrginica. 



C. panicula terminali, J Panicle terminal. 3 cleft , 

 tnfida ; pedunculis triHo- Peduncles 3 flowered ; 

 ris ; foliis acutis. Sp. pL | leaves acute. 

 4, p. 46, 



Walt. p. 60.. Mich. 1. p. S. Clayton, p. 1. Pur.h,l.p.r. 



bra^,rUr*T"i '^'^^^ f'^^ 2-10 feet high, wit!, numerous opposite 



fl Zr ^..' f^^'T'- . ^''''''' oPP^^'t*^' lanceolate, entire, nitid on the 

 apper surface, deciduous. Panicle terminal, composed of opposite 

 branches, with 9 or^ 3 pair of oval bracteal leaves •, the terminating 

 jeduDcles 3 flowered Cabj.v very minute, 4 cleft, persistent. Se"- 



r.ents of the corolla Imear, pendulous, white. Utamens and Stv% 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, ^ 



I have seen in the garden of Mr. Champneys, a variety of this nl.nt 

 W.tli panicles so long that they became cvlindrkal. ^ ^ 



ijrovvs m the low country in damn soils • in tWo „., 



have generuU, .ee,. U ,,. s„ch a, ,verro; am fert le '^''" """"j' ' 

 Flowers Aord. Fi>»».o.* -iv«- "^ jr- • ■', . 



f[ir^man Chionanthus. 



Th 



Old ^)Ian's Beard. 



tng intermittents and other chronic diseases. 



CoroJfa dinetaTa. Calur 1 r.. i. 



4.phynys, st-perus. Z. ^ f' ' ^'l'^^'^- Ca- 



mla Vilocularis, non £ t' , '^^'"'^ superior. 



liiscens ; loculis mrZ . ^'"^^ * ^eUed, nt.t o- 



mono- 



spermis. ""■ ' PewHg i cells one seeded. 



