Class IV. Order I. 59 



CORNUS CIRCINATA. VHerit. Round leaved Cornel. 



Branches warty ; leaves opposite, orbicular, white- 

 downy underneath ; cymes naked, flattened. VHer. 



Syn. CORNUS TOMENTULOSA. Mich. 



An erect slender shrub, distinguished by its spotted or warty 

 branches, but particularly by its large, rounded, acuminate 

 leaves, which are white and downy, almost woolly underneath. 

 Cymes terminal, flattened. Fruit bluish. On Brighton road. 

 June. 



CORNUS PANICULATA. I'Herit. Panicled Cornel. 



Branches erect, leaves opposite, ovate, hoary un- 

 derneath ; cymes panicled. VHer. 



A more common shrub than the two -last, sufficiently distin- 

 guishable by its smaller leaves. The cymes are numerous upon 

 the branches, more or less oblong, and decidedly panicled when 

 in fruit. Calyx very minute, so as to be hardly perceptible to 

 the naked eye. The berries or drupes are white, as in Cornus 

 alba. Low grounds. June, July. 



62. ICTODES. 

 ICTODES FCETIDUS. Skunk Cabbage. 



Bigelow, Medical Botany, PI. xxiv. 

 Syn. DRACONTIUM FOETIDUM. L. 



POTHOS FOETIDA. MX. 



A strong scented, repulsive plant, exceedingly meritorious of 

 the name it bears. The root is large and abrupt, with numerous 

 crowded, fleshy fibres. The spathe which emerges from the 

 ground some time before the leaves, is ovate, swelling, various 

 in width, cucullato, spotted, and sometimes nearly covered with 

 dull brownish purple ; the lop acuminate and incurved, the 

 edges infolded, auriculatc at base, and at length coalescing. 

 Within this is the oval spadix, on a short peduncle, covered with 

 perfect tetrandrous (lowers, and of the same colour with the 

 spathe. Calyx leaves four, fleshy, wedge shaped, truncate, the 

 top and edges inflected, the whole crowded so as to form a com- 

 pact covering for the spadix. Stamens four, opposite the calyx 

 leaves, with subulate filaments equal in length to the calyx, and 



