sANGUisoRBA. TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 177 



hist. III. p. 264. f. 8. t. 18, f. 2. {MeLiyi.J Roem, ^^ 

 SchulL III. p. 206. 



Stem smooth, substriate, (not angular,) about 2 feet high. Leaf- 

 lets ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, smooth, hoary beneath. Sfiike an 

 inch long, red. Poire t, 1. c. 



Hab. In wet meadows ; principally on the mountains. Canada 

 to Carolina. July — August. Fursh. -f- 



A doubtful species. The plant described by Will d enow 

 and /* o z r (? r, is probably only a garden variety of S. canadensis. 



113. CORNUS. L. 



Flowers sometimes aggregated in a 4-leaved invo- 

 lucrum. — Cfl/j/x 4- toothed. Petals A;. Drupe w'lXh^ 

 2-celled nut. Gen. pi 194. Nutt. Gen. I. p. 98. 

 Juss. p. 214. Lam. III. t. LXXIV. f. 1. Roem. 

 ^ Schult. Gen. 513. Nat. Ord. Caprifolia /z/j5. 

 Small trees or slirubs, generally with opposite leaves. 



Dog-wood. — Cornel. 



* Flowers capitate^ surrounded by an iTivolucrum. 



1. C. canadensis L. : herbaceous ; upper leaves verticil- 

 late, veined; leaves of the involucrum ovate, acuminate; 

 drupe globose. Sp, pi. 172. fVilld. Sp. I. p. 661. 

 rH e r. Corn. no. 2. t. 1 . Bat. Mag. t. 800. Mich. FL 

 I. p. 91. Pursh Fl.\.^.\Ql. Big. Bost.ip.37. El- 

 liott Sk.l.p. 207. Roem. <i- Schult. II!. p. 319. 



Root creeping. Stem simple, ascending, about 6 inches high, 

 surrounded at the top by a whorl of about 6 oval acuminate 

 leaves, which stand on very short petioles ; a little below this 

 whorl is a single pair of leaves, or, in their place, two oval 

 bracts. Common fieduncle terminal, about an inch long, in- 

 clined, supporting the dense umbel of flowers, which are sur- 

 rounded by an expanded white involucrum an inch in diame- 

 ter. Leaves of the involucrum broad-ovate, resembling pe- 

 tals. Flowers numerous, very small. Calyx with very mi- 

 nute obtuse teeth. Segments of the corolla ovate. Stamens 

 a little exserted ; anthers oblong, yellow. Germen subturbi- 

 nate, hairy ; style longer than the stamens ; stigma simple* 

 Berry small, red. 



Hab. In mountain meadows and in woods ; frequent in swamps 

 where evergreens abound. In the Cedar Swamp, New-Dur- 

 ham. On the Catskill and Shawangunk Mountains, and in the 

 Highlands of New-York. Fairfield, N. Y. Prof. Had ley. 

 Near Boston. Big e low. In Pennsylvania. Muhlen- 

 berg. Also in many other places. May— June. 



A handsome little plant, nearly allied to C. suecica of E"a- 

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