126 CALTCANTHACE^. (CAEOHNA-ALLSPICE FAMILY.) 



Var. oMongifoIia ; a smaller tree or shrub ; leaves oblong, beneath, lika 

 the branchlets, white-downy when yonng ; racemes and petals shorter. 



Yar. rotnndifolia ; with broader leares and smaller petals than in the 

 first variety ; racemes 6 - 10-flowered. 



Var. alnif olia ; 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. oligocdrpa ; shrub, with thin and smooth narrowly oblong leaves, 

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

 — Cold and deep mountain swamps, northward. 



CTD6iriA TULGAEis, the Quince, and C. Jap6nica, the Loqttat, or Japak 

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



Order 40. CALYCANTHACE^. (Carolina-Allspice 



Family.) 



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

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

 — otherwise like Kosacese. Chiefly represented by the genus 



1. CALiYCAlVTmiS, L. Cakolina Allspice. Sweet- 



SCENTED ShKUB. 



Calyx of many sepals, united below into a fleshy mversely conical cup (with 

 some leaf-like bractlets 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 Bose. Fruit like a rose-hip, but dry when ripe, and larger, en- 

 closing the large achenia. — Shrubs, with opposite entire leaves, and large 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 icaXv^, a cup or calyx, and avdos, flovoer, from the closed cup which 

 contains the pistils.) 



1. C. fldridllS) L. Leaves oval, soft-downy underneath. — Virginia'? and 

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



2. C. laevig^atns, Willd. Leaves oblong, thin, either blunt or ta,-p&c- 

 ■pointei, bright green and glabrous or ■a&mlj so on both sides, or rather pale be- 

 neath; flowers smaller. — Mountains of Franklin Co., Penn. (Prof. Porter), 

 and southward along the AUeghanies. May- Aug. 



3. C g^lanctlS, Willd. Leaves oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; conspic- 

 uously taper-pointed, glaucous-white beneath, roughish above, glabrous, larger than 

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

 tains and southward. May -Aug. 



