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Cornus Florida, Great-Flowered 

 Cornel, or Dogwood. 



C/a/} #/;</ Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



bwohicrum 4-phyIIum fepius. Petala fupera 4. Dntpa nucleo 

 biloculari. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



CORNUS floriddy arborea, involucro maximo: foliolis ob- 

 cordatis [poims apice indentatis/} Spec. Pi. iji. 

 Schmidt. Arb. 2. p. 6. t. 62. 



CORNUS mas Virginiana. Catejb. Carotin, t. 27. 



In the temperate regions of North-America this tree is much 

 fpoken of for its beauty, rifing from ten to twenty feet in height, 

 agreeable in its foliage, and covered in the Spring and early part 

 of the Summer with a profufion of white or fumetimes rofe- 

 coloured flowers,* vim- does if want beauty even in the gloomy 

 months of Winter, from the quantity of red berries which it 

 bears, and which at that feafon afford fultenance to the fincif. 

 warbler of the woods of America, the celebrated mocking bird 

 (Turdus Orpheus) emphatically called in the Indian language, 

 the Hundred-Tongued Bird. 



t The flowers, which are not really fueh, but are in fa& an 

 involucrum, in the bofom of which lie the final] and, in appear- 

 ance, infignificant flowers, begin to come out before the leaves ; 

 but, as they expand or rather incrrafe flowly (for Catesby 

 tells us, that they are fully formed when they firft come out 

 n ot larger than a fixpence, but increafe gradually in fize to 

 the breadth of the hand) the tree is in perfect foliage before 

 they arrive at their full growth. The leaves of the involucrum 

 would hardly have been called obcordate had Linnaus had 

 a n opportunity of feeing them in a living (late ; they ap- 

 proach to this fh ape by an indentation at the very point of the 

 Je af, as if the four points had been nipped together whilft in 

 the bud, a form which the fkill of our draughtfman has enabled 



ni m to exprefs far better than has been done by any preceding 

 artift. 



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