CEANO'THUS PAL'LIDUS. 
PALE-FLOWERED RED WOOD. 
Class. Order. 
FENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RHAMNACEA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N. America 
3 feet. 
June to Oct. 
Shrub. 
in 1818. 
No. 1058. 
The Greeks possessed a plant which they called 
keanothos, a spiny shrub ; but their description 
of it has not enabled modern botanists to identify 
it. Names, as we have before stated, are some- 
times borrowed from the ancients, in preference to 
inventing new ones, although they cannot be applied 
to the identical subjects which originally bore them. 
“This plant,” says Dr. Lindley, “occurs in the 
gardens under the name of Ceanothus ovatus and 
thyrsiflorus, from both of which it is certainly dis- 
tinct. It approaches more nearly to the lovely 
Ceanothus azureus, but its leaves are green not 
hoary beneath, and the flowers are smaller as well 
as much paler. If it were possible that such a thing 
would happen, this might be suspected to be across 
between Ceanothus azureus and Americanus.” 
This shrub proves to be much hardier than Cea- 
nothus azureus; and, planted in a diy sandy peat, 
we have seen it bear our winters and become a large 
bush. It produces abundance of its modest blue 
flowers, ornamental to the shrubbery for three or 
four months. May be easily struck from cuttings 
of the young wood. 
