&34 ADDITION 8. 



5. P. FRUTICOSA, L. Shrubby Cinque-foil 



Stem erect, very much branched, bushy ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 5 to 7, crowded, 

 ■ •c 'long-laaceolate, entire, silky, especially beneath; stipules lanceolate, scale-like; 

 H oers numerous., terminating the branchlets. 



Margins of swamps, rare. June— S«pt. A shrub 2 to 4 feet high, with a reddish 

 bark, and numerous branches. Leaves numerous, on short petioles, Flown 

 numerous, large, yellow. Cultivated. 



FRAGARIA, Tourn. Strawberry. 



Lat. fragrant, fragrant; on account of its perfumed ruit 



Calyx concave, deeply 5-cleft, with an equal number of 

 alternate exterior segments or bracteoles. Petals 5, obcor- 

 date. Stamens numerous. Styles deeply lateral. Re- 

 ceptacle in fruit much enlarged and conical, becoming 

 pulpy and whitish or scarlet, bearing the minute dry achenia, 

 scattered over its surface. — Low perennials, with runner*, 

 radical B-fuliate leaves, and white cymose flowers on scapes. 



1. F. VlRGlNlCA, Ehrh. Wild Strawberry. 



Leaflets broad-oval, smoothish above, the lateral ones distinctly petiolcd: pr- 

 d ncles mostly shorter than the leaves; achenia imbedded in the deeply pitted 

 o 'oid receptacle. 



Banks and rocky places. April, May. Fruit in June. July. PeJioles radical, 

 2 to 6 inches long, with spreading hairs. Leajicti coarsely toothed, 1 to 2 inches 

 l° D g' % as wide. 



2. F. YESCA, L. Common Strawberry. 



Leaflets folded, thin ; peduncles usually longer than the leaves ; acficnia super?.- 

 eial on the conical or hemispherical receptacle (not sunk in pits). 



Fields and meadows, common. April, May. Fruit June, July. Sto's.ns often 

 creeping several feet. Numerous varieties are cultivated, 



Tc-Order 85. RHAMNACEiE, after Rhamnus, p. 74, add 

 2. CEANOTHUS, Linn. New Jersey Tea. 



An ancient Greek name applied to this genus. 



Calyx 5-lobed, the lower part adhering with the ovary, 

 the upper seperatiag across in fruit. Petals hood-form, 

 on slender claws. Filaments elongated. Fruit 3-lobed, 

 dry and splitting into its 3 carpels when ripe. — Shrubby 

 plants, with entire leaves, and small white flowers in little 

 umbel-like clusters, which are crowded in dense panicles or 

 corymbs at the summit of naked flower branches. 



C. Americanus, L. New Jersey Tea. Rod-root 



Leates ovate or oblong-ovate, 3-ribbed, serrate, downy beneath, often heart- 

 «kaped at the base; common peduncles elongated, nearly leafl>53. 



nry woodlands and fenc»>-rows. common. July. An ucd*rshrnb 1 to 3 f*«* 

 high from a dark red root, with dewny branches and numerous small flowers, <u 

 rp.-otty whit* clutters. 



