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CORNUS CIRCINATA. VHerit. Round leaved Cornel. 



Branches warty ; leaves orbicular, white- 

 downy underneath ; cymes naked, flat. I 9 Her. 



Sijn. CORNUS roMExruLosA. 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 and after. 



CORNUS PANICULATA. VHerit. Panicled Cornel. 



Branches erect, leaves ovate, hoary underneath, 

 cymes pauicled. VHer. 



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

 guishable by its smaller leaves. The cymes are numerous up- 

 on the branches, more or less oblong, and decidedly panic led 

 when in fruit. The berries or drupes are white, as in Cornu 

 alba. Low grounds. June, July. 



47. POTHOS. 

 POTHOS FOETIDA. Mich* Skunk cabbage. 



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Stemless ; leaves oval, concave ; spadix nearly 

 globular. Midi. 



Syn. DRACOttflUM FOEflDUM. L. 



A foetid, repulsive plant, exceedingly meritorious of the 

 name it bears. The flowers which appear in April are not des- 

 titute of beauty, or at least of singularity. All that at this time 

 appears above ground is the hollow, boat shaped, inflat- 

 ed spathe, handsomely spotted red and yellow, with its acute 

 top recurved. In this is the oval spadix, covered with perfect 

 tetrandrous flowers. The fruit is a large globular fleshy mass, 

 formed of the enlarged spadix, containing many large, round 



