Along the coast from North Carolina to East Florida, Michaux! Baldw
in ! Oct.—Nov.—A shrub (6-8 feet high, Ell.). Leaves about an inch
long, pubescent when young, at length nearly glabrous, acuminate ; the lateral
veins few. Petals entire. Fruit as large as a pepper-corn : endocarp rather
thin and coriaceous. Seeds plano-convex, obcordate, smooth and even on
both sides.—Our specimens are rather imperfect.
4. CEANOTHUS. Linn, (in part) ; Gcertn. f r . 1.106; Brongn. l.'c. p. 369.
Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft; the upper portion at length separating by a
transverse line; the tube adhering to the base of the ovary. Petals 5, longer
than the calyx, saccate and arched, on long claws. Stamens exserted:
anthers ovate, 2-celled. 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 (rarely 2-4- or by abortion 1-celled), obtusely
triangular, girt below by the persistent tube of the calyx, tricoccous ; the cells
at length opening by the inner suture. Seeds obovate, without a lateral furrow.—
Shrubs, or somewhat shrubby plants, not thorny. Roots large, reddish,
astringent. Leaves alternate, commonly ovate or elliptical, serrate or
entire, persistent or deciduous. Flowers (perfect) white, blue, or yellowish
(the calyx and pedicels often colored), in umbel-like fascicles, which are aggregated
at the extremity of the branches into small dense thyrsoid panicles
or corymbs. -
* Leaves Z-ribbect from the base.
1. C. Americanus (Linn.) : leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, serrate, nearly
glabrous above, canescently tomentose beneath, the petioles and veins beneath
villous-pubescent; peduncles axillary, elongated ; thyrsus oblong, leafle
s s— Walt. Car.p. 101; Michx. ! fl. l.p . 154; Bot. mag. t. 1479; Pursh,
Jl. 1. v. 167; Ell. sk. 1. p. 290; DC. prodr. 2. p. 31 ; Hook. Jl. Bor.-Am.
1. p. 124; Darlingt. jl. Vest. p. 148. C. tardiflorus, Hornem.7
0. Pitcheri: leaves ovate, commonly obtuse, minutely canescent above,
velvety-tomentose beneath, the veins of both surfaces hairy; peduncles often
somewhat leafy—C. Pitcheri, Pickering ! mss.
y. herbaceus: leaves oval, serrulate, nearly glabrous.—C. herbaceus, Raf.
in Desv. jour. bot. 1. p. 227. C. perennis, Pursh, l. c. C. ovatu's, Desf.
arb. 2. p. 381?; DC. l.c.7
<5. intermedins: leaves small, ovate-oblong or oval, serrulate (otherwise as
in a.); thyrus rather loose.—C. intermedius, Pursh, l. c. ?; DC. 1. c. 7; E lk
sk. 1. p. 290, not of Hook.
Woods and copses, Canada! to Florida! and Louisiana! 0. Arkansas
and Missouri, Dr. Pitcher! Nu tta ll! Texas, Drummond! Alabama,
Dr. Gates ! y. Southern States. S. Georgia ! to Florida ? and west to Arkansas
! June-July.—Root dark red. Stem shrubby or suffruticose, 1-3
feet high; the younger branches pubescent. Leaves 2-3 inches long (in <5.
much smaller), rounded or rarely acutish, or sometimes a little cordate at the
base either acute, or slightly acuminate, or obtusish at the apex ; the pubescence
of the veins and petioles somewhat rusty-colored. Calyx, corolla, and
pedicels (3-6 lines long) white. Claws of the petals filiform. Disk with a
10-toothed border. Seeds convex externally, deeply concave within; the
cavity marked by an elevated longitudinal ridge. In 0. &. ^.the seeds are
convex on both sides, and without a ridge: the difference is perhaps ow-
incr to their greater maturity in our specimens of the latter.—New-Jersey
Tea.
2. C. ovalis (Bigel.): leaves narrowly oblong or elliptical-lanceolate, serrulate,
with the teeth glandular, nearly glabrous; thyrsus umbel-like, the
pedicels elongated and closely approximated; peduncles and^ branches glabrous
or slightly pubescent.—Bigel. Jl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 92; Gray ! in ann.
lyc. New-York, 3. p. 224. C. intermedius, Hook. jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 1. 24,
not of Pursh 7
0.7 leaves (especially on the veins), young branches, and peduncles pubescent.
In barren rocky places, Canada ! and Northern part of New-York ! Michigan,
Dr. Pitcher! Vermont along Lake Champlain, Boott! Dr. Robbins
! Tfc. Maine, Mr. Oakes ! 0. Arkansas^ Nuttall! Dr. Leavenworth !
Texas, Drummond! May.—Shrub 2-3 feet high. Leaves 1-24 inches
long, varying from oval to almost linear, acute at both ends, sometimes obtuse
at the apex, membranaceous, smooth and shining, or slightly pubescent
on the veins beneath, usually pubescent when very young ; the sei-
ratures tipped with black glands. Peduncles 1-2.inches long, naked or often
with one or two leaves just below the flowers. Thyrsus almost hemispherical,
an inch and a half in diameter. Flowers white, larger than in C. Americanus
: pedicels 8-10 lines long, white. “ Fruit blackish”, Bigelow; in 0.
scarcely half as large as in C. Americanus, globose-turbinate, nearly the
lower half invested with the adherent calyx-tube. In 0.7 the leaves are
usually smaller, and the pubescence of the veins, &c. is somewhat ferrugineous.
3. C. sanguineus (Pursh) : leaves obovate, pubescent beneath ; panicles
axillary, thyrsoid, on very short peduncles ; pedicels aggregated. Pursh, jl.
1. p. 167 ; Nutt. gen. l . p . 153 ; DC. prodr. 2 .p. 32.
Banks of the Missouri, abundant below the confluence of the Platte, Nut-
ta ll; near the Rocky Mountains, Lewis.—Branches reddish.—A much
larger plant than C. Americanus, which it considerably resembles. Nutt.
4. C. Oreganus (Nutt.! mss.): “ leaves broadly ovate, subcordate, mostly
obtuse, serrate, membranaceous, somewhat pubescent beneath; thyrsoid
corymbs in lateral panicles; fruit small, globose, obtusely 3-lobed, without
pulp.—C. sanguineus, Hook. ! jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 125, not of Pursh.”
Woods of the Oregon, from the Blue Mountains to the Sea, Douglas,
N u tta ll! Fort Vancouver, Dr. Scouler!—A shrub 4-12 feet high; the
stem and branches glabrous, reddish. Young leaves nearly obovate; the
adult ones narrow at the summit, but scarcely acute, 14-24 inches long, 1-14
inch wide, thin; veins moderately prominent. Panicles large, many-flowered,
about 3 inches long, the lower divisions compound. Flowers larger than
in C. Americanus, white. Fruit smaller than a peper-corn.—Very distinct
from the preceding, according to NuttalL
5. C. velutinus (Douglas): branches somewhat pendulous ; leaves orbicular
elliptical or elliptical-ovate, obtuse, subcordate, glandularly crenate-serru-
late, coriaceous, glabrous and shining (as if varnished) above, velvety-canes-
cent and strongly 3-ribbed beneath; panicles axillary, elongated, on rather
long peduncles.—Hook. jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 125, t. 45.
Subalpine hills near the sources of the Oregon, and at the “Kettle Falls”,
Douglas ; hills of Bear River, near the ‘ Seltzer Springs’, Nuttall!—A
shrub 3-8 feet high, Douglas (scarcely more than knee-high, Nutt. ; sometimes
covering the whole declivity of a hill, forming a thicket very difficult
to penetrate, Nutt.) ; branches nearly glabrous. Leaves 2-3 inches long,
sometimes much larger, the lower surface almost velvety when young, but
snaoother when mature : petioles half an inch or more in length. Panicles
thrice compound. Flowers white. “ Fruit dry, 2-3-seeded ; cocculi eharta-
ceous”, Hooker.—The leaves abound with an aromatic resin,
6. C. incanus: branches short and very thick, minutely canescent; leaves
broadly ovate, obtuse, mostly subcordate, coriaceous, crenate-serrulate, mi