PLATE DLXIX. 



EANOTHUS LANIGER. 



Woolly Ceanothus. 



CLASS V. ORDER I. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Petala 5, saccala. Bacca sicca, 3-locularis, 3- 



One Pointal 



sperma 



•Petals 5, bagged. Berry dry, three-celled, 



three-seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Ceanothus foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, integer- 

 rimis, subtus lanuginosis j ramulis, pedun- 

 culis, petiolis, calycibusque hirsutis. 





Ceanothus with the leaves oblong-lanced, en- 

 tire, and woolly beneath 5 the branches, 

 footstalks, flowerstalks, and calyxes hairy. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE, 



1. A flower. 



2. A segment of the calyx, with a petal and stamen attached. 



3. Seed- bud and pointal. 



To New Holland we export criminal* for onr convenience and safety, and from thence import furs for 



our covenng and flower, for our amusement. So far the balance of trade ia in our favour. But by 



whose hands, or at what time, our present snhWt «*>» £«.*. u t_. 



w„ tk« 5 present subject was first brought over, we have not been able to 



Jearn. 1 he specimen was communicated bv A ft t o^u^ <. • .1 , . . 



colleen a , lL«„ ■* - i™ . 1 y A ' B ; Lambert ' CS * in the be S innin S of April from his 



Mr. Wh 



Brompton. Its woolly leaves and branches, contrasted with the Mimosas and other' hard-leaved plant! 

 from the same coantry, make an agreeable variety, and the early blossoms are very ornamental. The 



plants we have seen are moderate-sized branchy shrubs are k«,t in «,„ u ,-• i tvt 



tj „ , . . , . y 3U1UUS » a 'e Kept in the green-honse like other New - 



Holknd plants, and reomre no parbcu.ar treatment. We have seen more species from the same country 



m herbanums, and some are now alive in this country, although they havo not yet blossomed. 





