XXXII. 2. THE NEW JERSEY TEA. AT5 
acute or rounded at base, obtusely serrate, acuminate, smooth 
on both surfaces, with a slight down on the mid-rib and veins 
above, the veins very prominent beneath. The flowers are on 
short stems in the axils of the lower leaves of the recent shoots. 
The tube of the calyx is cup-shaped with the segments spread- 
ing. The fruit is black, fleshy, somewhat pear-shaped. Flow- 
ers in May and June. 
XXXII. 2. THE JERSEY TEA. CEANOTHUS. L. 
Shrubs, or somewhat shrubby plants, not thorny. Roots 
large, reddish, astringent. Leaves alternate, commonly ovate, 
or elliptical, serrate or entire. Flowers white, blue or yellow- 
ish, in umbel-like fascicles, which are aggregated at the ex- 
tremity of the branches. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft; the upper 
portion at length separating by a transverse line; the tube ad- 
hering to the base of the ovary. Petals 5, longer than the 
calyx, saccate and arched, on long claws. Stamens projecting. 
Disk fleshy at the margin, surrounding the ovary. Styles 3, 
sometimes 2, united to the middle, diverging above. Fruit dry 
and coriaceous, mostly 3-celled, obtusely triangular, girt below 
by the persistent tube of the calyx, 3-seeded, the cells at length 
opening. Seeds obovate. 
Tue New Jersey Trea. C. Americdnus. IL. 
A low, bushy shrub, one to three feet high, flowering in June 
and July, growing on dry, sunny slopes. The stem is of a 
polished olive green below, striated with brown. Recent shoots 
of a lively green, turning brown, on drying, smooth, or some- 
times downy. The leaves are 2 to 24 inches long, and 1 to 14 
wide, conspicuously 3-ribbed, on short footstalks, oblong-ovate, 
tapering gradualiy to a point, serrate, with the serratures end- 
ing in a brown, glandular point, smooth above, paler and some- 
what downy beneath, the down on the footstalk and veins often 
rust-colored. 
The minute white flowers are in crowded clusters, on the 
sides, short branches and end of long downy footstalks, which 
proceed from the axil of the upper leaves, and have one or 
