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Cornus sericea. 417 
_ menta 4, epigyna, erecto-divergentia, corolla vix longiora, infra coronam germinis uti petala in 
serta. .Anthere oblongiusculz, biloculares, incumbentes, peltate, lutez. Pistillum. Germen inferum, 
globoso -urceolatum, villosum, coronatum nectario receptaculiformi, plano. Stylus filiformis, ‘sta- 
minibus vix brevior. Stigma capitatum, pubescens. Pericarpium. Drupa bacciformis, globosa, 
calice umbilicata, basi excavata, carnosa, demum aquosa, eleganter cerulea, intus alba, unilocularis, 
3 iin. fat. Semen. JVux subrotunda, compressa, nervosa, bilocularis, 18 lin. lat. 
L’Herit. Corn. 6. 
‘Tne Cornus sericea is a shrub, seldom attaining more than 42 
feet height. Its most common stature is from six to eight feet. The 
stems are numerous, straight, and covered with a shining reddish 
bark. The root is ligneous, branched, of a light grayish colour, and 
smells somewhat like liquorice-root ; the radicles are reddish. The 
stem is erect, cylindrical,’ and branched. The branches are op- 
posite, roundish, spreading, and of a dingy-purple colour. |The 
young shoots are round, ringed, nearly without spots, and of a 
dark purple colour; the very young ones.more or less pubescent. 
The leaves -are-opposite; petiolated, ovate; pointed, entire on their 
margins, nerved, and somewhat veined ; having the taidddlen nib sang 
nerves projecting underneath, and sunk abovere"The-under~ suri 
of the leaves, particularly near the costa and nerves, is sicionttglla with 
a dense; brownish, villous coat. The young leaves are doubled by 
the approximation of their sides; when full grown they are plane, 
as represented in the largest leaf of the plate. They vary in size; 
but in general when mature, are three inches long and an inch and 
an half broad. ‘The petioles are one-fourth the length -of the leaves, 
round below, with a slight furrow above. villous and purplish. ‘The 
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