126 CALYCANTIIACEJi. (CAROLINA-ALLSPICE FAMILY.; 



Yar. obloilgifolkl ; a smaller tree or shrub ; leaves oblong, beneath, like 

 the branehlet-s, white-downy when young ; racemes and petals shorter. 



Var. ro til lldi folia; with broader leaves and smaller petals than in the 

 first variety ; racemes 6 - 10-flowered. 



Var. aliiifoliii; shrub, with the roundish leaves blunt or notched at both 

 ends, serrate towards the summit; racemes dense and many-flowered. Chiefly 

 in the Western States, and westward. 



Var. oligOCcirpu; shrub, with thin and smooth narrowly oblong leaves, 

 2-4-flowcrcd racemes, the broader petals scarcely thrice the length of the calyx. 



Cold and deep mountain swamps, northward. 



CYD&NIA vuLGAKis, the QUINCE, and C. JAI-6NICA, the ornamental JAPAH 

 QUINCE, differ from the order generally in their many-seeded carpels. 



ORDER 40. CALYCANTHACE^E. (CAROLINA-ALLSPICE 



FAMILY.) 



Shrubs ivith opposite entire leaves, no stipules, the sepals and petals similar 

 and indefinite, the anthers adnate and extrorse, and the cotyledons convolute : 



otherwise like Rosaceae. Chiefly represented by the genus 



1. CA LY CAN THUS, L. CAROLINA ALLSPICE. SWEET 

 SCENTED SHRUB. 



Calyx of many sepals, united below into a fleshy inversely conical cup (witu 

 some leaf-like bracelets growing from it) ; the lobes lanceolate, mostly colored 

 like the petals ; which are similar, in many rows, thickish, inserted on the top 

 of the closed calyx-tube. Stamens numerous, inserted just within the petals, 

 short; some of the inner ones sterile (destitute of anthers). Pistils several or 

 many, enclosed in the calyx-tube, inserted on its base and inner face, resembling 

 those of the Rose. Fruit like a rose-hip, but dry when ripe, and larger, en- 

 closing the large achcnia. Shrubs, with opposite entire leaves, and largo lurid- 

 purple flowers terminating the leafy branches. Bark and foliage aromatic ; the 

 crushed flowers exhaling more or less the fragrance of strawberries. (Name 

 composed of caXv|, a cup or calyx, and avdos, jloicer, from the closed cup which 

 contains the pistils.) 



1. C. florid MS, L. Lr.nws oral, s<>fl-diniy uiithrtiHilh. Virginia? and 

 southward, on hill-sides in rich soil. Common in gardens. April -Aug. 



2. C. ItfttVigsitllS, Willd. Leaves oblong, thin, cither blunt or taper 

 pointed, brit/lit (/m-n <nnl i/lal>rnns or nearly so on both sides, or rather pale be- 

 neath; flowers .smaller. Mountains of Franklin Co., Penn. (/V/". 1'ortcr)^ 

 and southward along the Alleghanies. May -Aug. 



3. C glailCUS, Willd. Loaves oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; rons/ric- 

 uously tapcr-jHiintcil, >//<n-<>ux-ir/<itr h-ncath, roughish above, glabrous, larger than 

 in the others (4'- 7' long) ; the flowers also larger. Virginia ? near the moun- 

 tains and southward. May - Aug. 



