CoR.NL's. cornace;e. esi 



very minute appresscd pubescence, whitisfi beneath ; cymes loose, convex or 

 usually paniculate, glabrous; |)etals lanceohile ; drupes small, depressed- 

 globose, wliite. — Utitr. ! I. c. p. 9, I. 5 ; WilLd. ! spec. 1. p. GfJ4 ; J'ursh, ft,. 

 1. p. 109; Ell. sk. 1. p. 209?; Torr.! Ji. I. c. ; DC! L c. ; Hook. Jl. 

 Bor.-Am. \. p. 'lib; Darlingt. Jl. Cesl. p. 108. C. racemosa, Lam. did. l. 

 c? C. candidissinia. Marsh, arbust. ex Darlin^t. 



Tliickets and hill-sides and banksof streams, Canada and Northern Slates! 

 to Carolina (ex Pursh, S^r.): west to the Mississippi. May-June. — Stem 

 erect, 4-8 feet higli, covered with a light grayish bark : that of the young 

 branches i)ale purplish-brown, dotted. Cymes very numerous, thyrsoid, 

 elongated in fruit. Calyx-teeth triangular, very short. Ovary canescent. 

 Anthers yellowish. Drupes about the size of a small j)ea, whun fully 

 ripe ac(piiring a slight leaden tinge. — This is a very beautiful plant when in 

 flower: it is much (and somewhat fastigiately) branched, and bears the 

 greatest profusion of small pure white blossoms. Notwiihstanding the opinion 

 expressed bv Hooker and Darlington, we are confident that no two species of 

 the genus are more distinct than this and C. stolonifera. It is much more 

 nearly allied to the succeeding species, which seems to take its place in the 

 Southern States; where we doubt if C. paniculata occurs, except perhaps in 

 the mountains. 



_/— ^. C. stricta (Lam.): branches erect (fuscous), glabrous; leaves ovate or 

 ' ovate-lanceolate, nearly glabrous and of the same color both sides, conspicu- 

 ously acuminate, rather acute at the base; cymes loose, sometimes a little 

 paniculate, glabrous; calyx-teeth linear-subulate; petals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute; anthers pale blue; drupes subglobose, pale blue. — Lam. diet. 2. p. 

 116 ; L'Her. I. c. p. 8, t. 5 ; Pursh, I. c. ; Ell. sk. I. p. 209 ; DC. prodr. 4. 

 p. 272. (sub nom. C. striata.) C. sanguinea, Walt. Car. p. 88 ? C. cya- 

 nocarpus, Ginel. syst. veg. 1. p. 2bl. C. fastigiata, Michx. ! jl. \.p. 92. 



In swamps, Virginia' to Georgia! April. — Shrub 8-15 feet high, with 

 brownish branches: branchlets (piadrangular. Leaves when young more or 

 less pubescent, at lengtli glabrous, liglit green on both surfaces, but very 

 slightly paler beneath. Cymes more flat than in C. paniculata; and the 

 flowers larger: the calyx-teeth are also longer. Drupes (ex descr.) blue ex- 

 ternally, the pulp white. — Pursh erroneously gives Canada as a habitat of 

 this species. We believe it is confined to the Southern States. De Candolle 

 states it to be also a native of Mexico. 



'"^ 6. C. asperifolia (Michx.): branches erect, scabrous-pubescent; leaves 

 ' oblong-ovate or mostly oval-hmceolate, on very short petioles, acimiinate, 

 hispicUy scabrous above, tomentose-pubescent beneath; cymes fastigiate, 

 scabrous with a minutely hispid pubescence; calyx-teeth minute; petals 

 oblong-lanceolate (fruit unknown).— M/c/u-. .' fl. \. p. 93; Ell. sk. 1. p. 209. 

 C. sericea, y. DC! jrrodr. 4. p. 272. 



/?. ? branches spreading ; leaves mostly larger and ovate ; petioles a little 

 longer. 



Dry sandy soil, S. Carolina! Georgia! and Florida! /?. Kentucky, Dr. 

 Short! June.— This appears to be a" very distinct species, resembling C 

 stricta rather than C. sericea (but our P. again is near the latter), with small 

 and usually quite narrow rough leaves. The anthers are blue, or, according 

 to Elliott, purple. 

 ^- 7, C sericea (Linn.) : branches spreading (purplish) ; the branchlets, cymes 

 and petioles lanuginous; leaves ovate or elliptical, acuminate, nearly gla- 

 brous above, silkv-pubescent beneath; cymes depressed, crowded; calyx- 

 teeth lanceolate ; petals lanceolate-oblong, obtuse ; drupes subglobose, pale 

 blue— I-inn. mant. p. 199, 6; syst. veg. ed. Murray, p. 159; L'Her.! I. c. 

 p. 5, t. 2 ; Wind. ! spec. I. c. ; Pursh, I. c. ; Ell. I. c. ; Torr. ! fl.l. p. 178 ; 



