CEAXOTnr- DENTATUS. 1 (!,J 



that he supposed I should offer some very large sum to induce him to part 



with it. 



'On the following day, another relation of Wang's came 'to me in a secret 

 manner, and informed me that he was acquainted with another place where the 

 same plant was to be had, and that, for a consideration, he would go and fetch it. 

 I engaged him at once, merely telling him that he must bring young plants with 

 good roots, otherwise they would be entirely useless to me. This he faithfully 

 promised to do, and kept his word. In the course of the day, he returned with 

 three good plants, which he sold me, and which I afterwards took back to Shanghae. 

 These are now safely in England.' * It is, perhaps, only fair to remark, that 

 although the Chinaman is certainly an adept in the art of driving hard bargains, 

 and, we might add, in cheating, this peculiarity is, by no means, confined to 

 those latitudes. 



CEANOTHTJS DENTATUS. 



Toothed Ceanothts. 

 Unman Class— Pentandria. Order— Monoqynia. Natural Order— Ehamhaciih. 



It were hard to say whether the floral or mineral wealth of California is the most 

 inexhaustible ; for although hundreds of plants, of every class, have been thence 

 introduced of late years, ' the cry is still, they come.' We should, doubtless, excite 

 a smile on the features of some, were we, in such a 'practical' generation as the 

 present, to hazard a comparison of the relative importance of powers and gold, nor 

 would we be thought to speak slightingly of the indispensable medium of exchange, 

 to whose value we are feelingly alive. But we may at least venture to point out 

 the superior moral influence of the former upon mankind, to that exercised by the 

 potent yellow ore, at whose shrine all men bow down. 



With a few exceptions, the plants of the Buckthorn family are not remarkable 

 for the beauty of their flowers ; the Ceanothes recently introduced to this country 

 from California will, however, do much to increase the interest attached to this 

 tribe. The flowers are, individually, very small, but this minuteness is fully 



• Fortune's Tea Districts of China. Murray, 1852. The three plants above referred to are in the hands 

 of Messrs. Standisli and Noble of Bagshot, with whom they have recently flowered. The blossoms are of a 

 pale yellow, deliriously and strong!} -" "i. d with the odour of ;i Tea rose. 



