Tas. 8311. 
CORNUS Norra... 
Western North America. 
CoRNACEAE. 
Cornvs, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 947. 
Cornus Nuttallii, Audubon, Birds of North Am. ed. fol. el. (1837) 
t. 8367 (nomen) et ed. norm. (1842), vol. iv. pp. 818, 315, t. 279; Torr. & 
Gray, Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 652; Sargent, Silva N. Am. vol. v. p. 69, t. 214; 
Eastwood, Trees of California, p. 73, t. 51; C. K. Schneider, Ill. Handb. 
Laubholzk. vol. ii. p. 454, fig. 81 h, m.; aftinis C. floridae, Linn., sed elatior, 
foliis ad obovatum vergentibus vix vel breviter acuminatis subtus 
copiosius pilosis, involucro majore, bracteis abrupte apiculatis vel acumi- 
natis distincta. 
Frutex vel arbor, 15-24 m. alta, cortice griseo laevi, ramis nisi novellis glabris 
fuscis. Folia plerumque obovata vel obovato-elliptica, breviter vel ane 
acuminata, 5-12 cm. longa, 4-9 em. lata, supra primo adpresse pilosa, 
citissime glabrata, subtus canescentia, molliter pilosa vel villosula, nervis 
utrinque circiter 5; petioli 6-15 mm. longi. Practeae involucrantes plerum- 
que 6, obovatae, breviter apiculatae, rarius acuminatae, albidae, luteo- vel 
interdum rubro-suffusae, 4—8 cm. longae, 2°5-7 cm. latae. Florum capitula 
1-4-2 em. diametro; flores fertiles cum sterilibus mixti. Calyx extra 
adpresse griseo-pubescens. Pefala viridi-albida. Drupae paucae perfectae 
inter abortivas minores numerosas, oblongae, rubrae, 8-12 mm. longae, 
apice calyce persistente nigrescente coronatae.—Benthamia Nuttallii, Nakai 
in Tokyo Bot. Mag. vol. xxiii. p. 41.—O. Starr. 
The subject of our plate is the noblest of the Cornels. It 
is met with on the Pacific coast of North America from 
British Columbia and Vancouver Island to Southern Cali- 
fornia, and is common on the Coast Mountains down to 
Monterey. In the most favourable conditions, and especially 
in the Redwood forests of Northern California, it attains a 
large size; one tree is recorded as reaching a height of 
100 ft. Professor Sargent and Miss Eastwood speak of it 
as one of the most beautiful of trees, gorgeous in autumn 
with its red fruits and brilliantly coloured foliage; a recent 
writer in the Gardeners’ Chronicle says that on this account 
the tree is spared even by the settler. The involucre, often 
loosely spoken of as the i eae is at times 6 in. across, with 
individual bracts 23 in. wide. The first botanist to discover 
Apnit, 1910. 
