582 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Ovarium free. Styles straight. Stigma trifid. Capsule girded by the calyx, 
3-celled, with a loculicidal dehiscence ; cells many-seeded. (Don's Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous; serrated. Flowers in 
racemes, terminal, solitary, or panicled, bracteate, with white corollas. — 
Shrubs, deciduous ; natives of North America. From the appearance of 
the plants in British gardens, we are strongly inclined to think that all the 
sorts may be referred to one species. Peat soil kept moist. 
a 1. C. auniro'tia L. The Alder-leaved 
Clethra. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 566.; Don’s Mill, 3. p. 841.; Pursh 
01 
Sept., 1. p. 301. 
S me. C. alnifdlia var. # denudata Ait, Hort. Kew. 2. 
Y 
Dp. 73. 
Engravings. Schmidt Baum., t. 47. ; and our fig. 1095. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves cuneate-obovate, acute, 
coarsely serrated above, glabrous on both 
surfaces, and of the same colour. Racemes 
spicate, simple, bracteate, clothed with hairy 
tomentum. (Don’s Mill.) A deeiduous shrub. 
New England to Virginia, in swamps. Height 
3 ft.to 4ft. Introduced in 1731. Flowers 
white; July and September. 
1095. C. alnifolia. 
2. C. (4.) TomENTO'sA Lam. The downy Clethra. 
Identification. Lam. Dict., 2. p. 46.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 842; Pursh 
Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 301. 
Synonymes. C. alnitdtia 8 pubéscens Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 73.3 C. 
incana Pers. Ench. 1. p. 482. : 
Engravings. Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 39. ; and our figs. 1096, and 1097. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cuneate-obovate, acute, finely 
serrated at top, clothed with white .... 
tomentum beneath. Racemes spi- WS 
cate, simple, bracteate, villously to- 
mentose. (Don’s Vill.) A decidu- 
ous shrub. Virginia and Carolina, 
in swamps. Height 3ft. to 4 ft. 
Introduced in 1731. Flowers white ; 
July to October. 1097. ©. fa.) eomentdea. 
1096. C. (2. )tomentisa. 
» 3. C. (4.) panicuza‘ta Ait, The panicled-fowered Clethra. 
Engraving: "Our fi 1008. thors a sbochnum ta the British Stussum, Pe? 902 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves narrow, cuneate-lanceolate, acute, 
acuminately serrated, glabrous on both surfaces. Panicle 
terminal, elongated, composed of racemes, and clothed with 
white tomentum. (Don’s Mill.) A deciduous shrub. Ca- 
rolina. Height 3 ft. to 4ft. Introduced es 
in 1770. Flowers white ; July to October. 
a #4. C.(4.) acumina’ta Miche. The acu- 
minated-leaved Clethra. 
Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor., Amer. 1. p. 260.; Don’s 
Mill., 3. p, 842.; Pursh Sept., 1. p. 302. 
Synonyme. C. montana Bartr. Cat. 
Engravings. Bot. Cab., t. 1427.3; and our fig. 1099. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oval, acuminated, 
bluntish at the base, serrated, glabrous on 
c.(a) paniculata, both surfaces, rather glaucous beneath. Ra- 
cemes spicate, almost solitary, bracteate, 
clothed with white tomentum. Flowers resembling those 
of C. alnifélia, (Don’s Mill.) A large shrub or lowtoss. c. (a:\ scuminitn 
