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Cornus Canadensis. Canadian Cornel. 

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Clafs and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia, 



Generic Char ad er. 



Involucrum 4-phyllum fsepius. Petala fupera 4. Drupa nuclso 

 2-loculari. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



CORNUS canadenfis; herbacea, foliisfummis verticillatisfub* 



petiolans. Wilid. Pbytog. 1. p. 3. n. 13. Ejufd. 



Sp. PL 1. 661. 

 CORNUS canadenfis. Sp. PI 172. Reich. 1. 332. Aman* 



Acad. 1. p. 257. L'Herit. Cornus y n. 2. t. 1. Mart. 



Mill. Did. 9. 

 PYROLA alfines flore brafiliana, Bauh. Prod. 100. Pin. 191.. 



Is for the mod part readily diftinguifhed from Cornus fuecica> 

 by the leaves all growing in a whirl at the top of the ftem, for the 

 oppofite pair about the middle are mere ftipules ; Pallas doubts 

 if they are not both varieties, and fays the fpecimens he has feen 

 from Kamfchatka and Bering's Ifland, exactly correfpond 

 with garden fpecimens from this country and native ones from 

 Canada, but it is not very improbable that Cornus canadenfis 

 may be found in thefe places as well as CoRNUs/am'w ; we 

 have fpecimens of both from Labrador. The other diftinciion 

 which Willdenow obferves of the leaves in one being 

 nervofa in the other venofa, remarked alfo by Mr. Salisbury, 

 in Smith's Flora Britannica, though not unfounded, is hardly 

 fufficiently pointed for ufe, as the nerves in fuecica fometimes 

 take their origin from the midrib, and the veins in canadenfis 

 are fo (trongly marked on the underfide and fo little divided, 

 that moft defcribers would call them nerves. 



At No. 526 of this work we have given another fpecies of 

 this genus, which grows into a large tree, affording a remark- 

 able contraft with this very humble herbaceous plant. Intro- 

 duced by Dr. John Fothergill from America in 1774* 

 Flowers in Auguft. Propagated by its creeping roots. Re- 

 quires a fhady (ituation and a light foil compofcd chiefly of 

 bog earth. 



