154 TENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



only, 1 think they are nearly sessile, and remarkably oblong-, 

 the brandies reddish, surviving the v inter, and forming 

 a shrub ubout 3 feet high. 4. microphiiUus. Stem rigid 

 and much branched, leaves fasciculated, smooth and 

 lucid, scarcely larger than those of Thtfmus serpyllum. 

 ChieHy inhabiting the sandy and open pine forests of 

 Georgia. 5. *SerpiillifoUiis. Decumbent and suffruticose; 

 branches filiform; leaves small, elliptic-ovitte, serrulate, 

 obtuse, petioles and nerves on the under side strigose; 

 panicles pedicellate, axillary, few-flowered; flowers con- 

 glomerated. Hab. Around the town of St. Marys, in Flo- 

 rida. — Dr. Baldwyn. By much the smallest species of 

 the genus. Leaves and stems not much exceeding those 

 of I'hyme, early leaves somewhat crowded, oval, or round- 

 ish, succeeding leaves distant, all obtuse and nearly 

 smooth; flowers white, partly capitulate at the summit of 

 a pedicell, 1 and a half to 2 inches long, only about from 

 12 to 15 together. 



The genus Ceanothus appears peculiar to America; of 

 which there are 5 other species besides the above; viz. 

 1 in New-Spain, 2 in Peru, 1 in the mountains of Jamai- 

 ca, and another species of uncertain locality. The C 

 asiaticuSf C. circumsclssa of India and C. africanus do 

 not appear to belong to this genus, and C. capsularis 

 of the isle of Talieiti in the Pacific, seems to be a Foma- 

 derns. 



2.30. EUONYMUS. i. (Spindle-tree.) |j 



Calix 5-parte(l, or 5 cleft, its base inside, co- 

 vered with a flat peltate disiv. Petals 5, spread- 

 ing, inserted on the outside margin of the glan- 

 dular disk. Capsule 5-angled, 5-celled, 5-valv- 

 cd, coloured, septiferous in tlie centre, cells 1 or 

 2-seeded. Seeds calyptrate (or arillate?) 



Erect or rarely subsarmentose shrubs, with quadran- 

 gular branches; leaves opposite, minutely stipulate; pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary, opposite, 3-flowered, or tricho- 

 tomous and many-flowered. — Flowers often tetrandrous 

 and tetrapetalous, greenish or brown; capsule sometimes 

 3 or 4-celled, crimson; seeds covered with a scarlet pul- 

 py urillus. 



Species. 1. E. americanus. /3. sannentosus. Subsemper- 

 virent; stem sarmentose, often radicaiit, acutely quad- 

 rangular; leaves subsessile, opaque, ovate-lanceolate 

 acute, obtusely serrate, serratures fur the most part undu- 



