THE CEANOTHUS, OR JERSEY TEA. 55 



properties are sufficiently active to be used as medicines 

 have never been long employed by any people as substi- 

 tutes for tea. 



The flowers of the Ceanothus are white, in full and 

 elegant clusters, without any formality of shape, having 

 a downy appearance, always attracting attention, not so 

 much by their beauty as by their delicacy and their pro- 

 fusion. This plant is abundant in New England, flowering 

 in June on the borders of dry woods. 



