CoRNUs. CORNACEiE. Mtf 



A. Moschatcllina (Linn.) — Fl. Dan. t. 94 ; Enfrl. hot. l. 453; Gttrtn. fr. 

 t.l\2; Schk. hamlb. I. \m ; D^ / ;;rw/r. '2. ;;. 451 ; Richards. ! appx. 

 Frankl. journ. ed. 2. p. 13; Torr. .' in ami. lijQ. New York, 1. p. 32; 

 Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 273. 



In the woody country between lat. 54° and 04°, Richardson! and on the 

 Rocky Mountains as far south as about lat. 42^, Dr. James! Drummond! 

 but only on the higher peaks. — Koch, who seems first to have described 

 Adoxa correctly, refers it to Caprifoliace.e. 



Order LXX. CORNACE^. DC. 



Calyx adherent to the ovary ; the limb 4-5.toothcd, minute, or 

 4-5-lobed, with a valvate ajstivation. Petals distinct, equal in num- 

 ber to the teeth of the calyx, and inserted alternately with them 

 into the margin of the epigynous disk, broad at the base : aestivation 

 valvate. Stamens 4-5, inserted with the petals and alternate with 

 them : anthers introrse, mostly cordate. Ovary 1-2-celled, with a 

 solitary pendulous ovule in each cell : styles single. Drupes bac 

 cate, with a 1-2. celled nucleus, crowned with the remains of the 

 calyx. Seeds anatropous. Embryo nearly the length ol" the lleshy 

 albumen ; the radicle shorter than the oblong cotyledons. — Trees or 

 shrubs, rarely herbaceous, with a bitter bark. Leaves opposite (or 

 rarely somewhat alternate), mostly entire, exstipulate, pinnately 

 veined. Flowers cymose ; the inflorescence sometimes capitate 

 and involucrate, rarely dioecious. Hairs centrally affixed. 



The centrally affixed bicuspidate hairs, like those of IMalpighia, which are 

 noticed by De Candolle in one or two species of Cornus, are common to tlio whole 

 genus* as well as to Benthamia, and Mastixia pentandra, Blume. The latter (a 

 epecimen of which we have examined in the herbarium of the Lyceum of Natural 

 History, New York,) is a true Cornaceous plant, and the loaves are, at least 

 sometimes, opposite. 



1. CORNUS. Toum. ; Gcertn.fr. t. 26 ; DHcr. Com. ; Endl. gen. p. 798. 



Limb of the calyx 4-toothed, minute. Petals oblong, spreading. Fila- 

 ments filiform. Style subclavate : stigma obtuse or capitate. Drupes not 

 connate into a syncarpium. — Leaves entire, minutely scabrous with the 

 appressed bicuspidate hairs. Flowers white, rarely yellow. (Bark very 

 bitter, tonic.) — Dogwood. 



§ 1. Flowers cymose : involucre none. 

 -^ — 1, C. alternifolia (Linn, f.) : branches alternate (greenish) ; leaves more 



» They are noticed, we find, by Prof. Zuccarini, in the Flora Japonica, now 

 publishing. 



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