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No. 20. 



No. 20. 



CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS. 



English Name— BUTTON- WOOD SHRUB. 



Fkench Name — Cephalanthb d'amerique. 

 - German Name — AMERicAyriscHE Weissball. 



Officinal Names — Cephalanthus Cortex, &c. 



ViTLGAR Names — White Ball, Little Snowball^ 

 Swampwood, Pond Dogwood, Globe flower, in Lou- 

 isiana Bois de Marcns. 



x\uTH0RiTiEs — Lin, Mich* Pursh, Elliot, Robin, 

 W. Bart.Fl. %. 91. 



Genus Cephalanthus — Flowers crowded on a 



globular and hairy phoranthe.,^ r?l^r^,^;v 

 ^ -o- 9 **^»*x^iti small iDuriootnea 



tubular-funnelform, four cleft, epigyne, bearing four 

 stamina equal and protruding. Pistil one cohe- 

 rent with the calix, style long, stigma globose. Cap- 

 sule two celled, two seeded, nearly bipartible, and 

 each cell nearly bivalve, valves uniserial. 



Species C. occideivtalis — Leaves ternate or oppo- 

 site, petiolate, oval-apcuminate, entire and smooth: 

 heads of flowers terminal, peduncled, upright, 



DESCRIPTION—A fine ornamental shrub from 

 five to fifteen feet high, very branched ; bark yellow 

 brown spotted with red, rough on the stems Leaves 

 ternate or opposite, with red petiols from two to four 



