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CEANOTHUS. 



The NEW-JERSEY TEA-TREE. 

 Clafs 5. Order i. Pentandria Monogynia. 



TTHE Empalement is of one leaf, top-fliaped; the border is 

 five-parted, acute, and incurved ; and permanent. 



The Corolla is compofed of five petals, equal, roundifh, hook- 

 facked, comprefled, very obtufe, fpreading, lefs than the 

 calyx, with claws the length of the petal, rifing from the in- 

 cifions of the calyx. 



The Filaments are five, awl-ftaped, ere6l, oppofite to the pe- 

 tals, and longer than the corolla. The Antherce are roundilli. 



The Germen is three cornered. The Style is cylindrical, half 

 three-cleft, and the length of the Stamina, ThQ Stigma ob- 

 tufe. 



The Seed'VeJJel is a berry, which is dry, tl>ree fruited, threc- 



cell'd, obtufe, and fet with tubercles. 

 The Seeds ^xq folitary and ovate. 



The Species with us, but one, viz. 



Ceanothus americanus. American Ceanothus, or 

 NeW'Jerfey Tea-tree. 



This is a low fhrub, growing common in moft 

 parts of North America; feldom rifmg above four or 

 five feet high, and fending out branches on every 

 fide from the ground upward, which are garniflied 

 with oval, pointed leaves, having three longitudinal 

 veins, running from the foot-ftalk to the point, di- 

 verging from each other in the middle; they are 

 placed oppofite, and are of a light green colour. 

 The flowers are produced at the extremity of the 

 (hoots, in a clofe kind of Thyrfus ; they are of a 

 white colour and when in bloom make a fine appear- 

 ance. A decoflion of the roots of this llirub is 

 eftcemed a certain cure^ not only in flight Gonor- 

 rhoea's, 



