64 Buckthorn ( Rhamnacece ) 



Found, in wet places, from New Jersey southward. 

 A thornless shrub, or sometimes a small tree. 



(2) Genus Ceanothus, L. (New Jersey Tea, etc.) 



Fig. 18. Narrow-Leaved Ceanothus. C. ovatus, Desf. 



This species differs from the next chiefly in these 

 items : 

 Flowers, somewhat larger, in nearly hemispherical clusters 



that are about one and one half inches in diameter. 



May. 

 Leaves, narrow oval to narrow egg-shape, usually pointed 



at both ends, and smooth, or nearly so ; the glandular 



teeth of the edge often black-tipped. 



Found, among dry rocks, Western Vermont and Massa- 

 chusetts, and westward. It is rare in the East. 



Fig. 19. New Jersey Tea. Red-Root. C. Americanus, L. 



Flowers, white, in lengthened clusters at the summit of 

 the flower branches. Petals, five, spreading, hooded, 

 attached by slender claws, longer than the calyx. 

 Calyx, five-lobed, incurved, the lower part attached 

 with the thick disk to the seed-case, and remaining 

 long after the lobes and the ripened fruit have fallen. 

 Calyx and flower-stem colored like the petals. Seed- 

 case, three-celled. July. 



Leaves, three quarters to three inches long, egg-shape, 

 dark, dull green ; very prominently three-veined from 

 the base, toothed, downy, or often nearly smooth. 

 Apex, pointed or obtuse ; base often slightly heart- 

 shape. 



Fruit, small, dry, three-lobed and three-celled, splitting 

 up and down into three parts. Seeds, not furrowed, 

 one in each cell. A capsule. 



