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No.. 28. 



CORNUS FLORIDA. 



English Name— COMMON DOGWOOD. 

 French Name — Cornouiller fleuri. 

 German Name — Schonbltjhender Hartriegel. 



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Officinal Name — Cornus florida. 



Vulgar Names — Dogwood, Doglree, Boxtree, 



Florid Cornel, Monhacaniminschi, &c« 



Authorities — Lin. Mich. Pursh, Schoepf^ Gates- 

 by, Thacher, Coxe, Carpenter, Elliot, B. Barton, Big* 

 fig. 28, and Seq, W. Bart. fig. 3, &c. 



Genus Corxus — Calix symphogyne, four toothed. 

 Petals four, small and broad. Stamina four, epigyne 

 alternating with petals. One style and stigma. Fruit 



a drupe inclosing a bilocular two seeded nut. 



Species C. Florida — Asborescent ; leaves oppo- 

 site, ovate, acuminate, base acute, glaucous beneath : 

 Involucres corolliform, nearly obcordate j drupes 



ovate and scarlet, 



DESCRIPTION— Stem rising from fifteen to thir- 

 ty feet, with a rough blackish bark full of fissures : 

 branches opposite, spreading, with reddish bark and 

 rings where the old leaves grew. — Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, oval, entire, base acute, end acuminate, pale 

 beneath, with strong narallel veins. 



