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CEANOTHUS. 
The NEW-JERSEV TEA-TREE, 
Clafs 5. Order 1. Pentandria Monogynia. 
HTHE Empalement is of one leaf, top-lhaped: the border is 
A 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, riling from the in- 
cifions of the calyx. 
The Filaments are five, awl-fhaped, ered, oppofite to the pe- 
tals, and longer than the corolla. The Anther# are roundiih. 
The Germen is three cornered. The Style is cylindrical, half 
three-cleft, and the length of the Stamina. The Stigma ob- 
tufe. 
The Seed-veJJel is a berry, which is dry, three fruited, three- 
cell’d, obtufe, and fet with tubercles. 
The Seeds are folitary and ovate. 
The Species with us, hut one, viz. 
Ceanothus araericanus. American Ceanothus , or 
New-Jerfey Tea-tree. 
This is a low fhrub, growing common in moll: 
parts of North America; feldom riling above four or 
five feet high, and fending out branches on every 
fide from the ground upward, which are garnilhed 
with oval, pointed leaves, having three longitudinal 
veins, running from the foot-lialk 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 
fhoots, in a clofe kind of Thy r Jus ; they are of a 
white colour and when in bloom make a fine appear- 
ance. A deco&ion of the roots of this flirub is 
efteemed a certain cure, not only in flight Gonor- 
rhoea’s, 
