TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cornus. 221 



stance. Stipulas none. Fl. numerous, cymose or umbel- 

 late, white or yellow in the shrubby kinds ; dark purple 

 in the herbaceous ones. Fruit red and eatable ; or black 

 or white, and nauseous, bitter, or insipid. 



1. C. sanguinea. Wild Cornel-tree. Dog-wood. 



Branches straight. Leaves green on both sides. Cymes 

 naked, flat. 



C. sanguinea. Linn. Sp. PL 171. mild. v. 1. 662. Fl. Br. 188. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 4. t. 249. Hook. Scot.55. L'Herit. Corn. n. 5. FL 

 Dan. t. 48 1 . Willem. Stell. 93. 



C. n. 816. Hall. Hist. v. 1.363. 



C. fcemina. Rail Syn. 460. Ger. Em. 1467. f. 



Virga sanguinea. Matth. Valgr.v. 1.236./. Camer. Epit. 159. /. 



In hedges and thickets, especially on a chalk or limestone soil, 

 common. 



Shrub. June. 



A bush 4 or 5 feet high, with many opposite, straight, round, 

 smooth branches, of a dark red when full grown. Leaves oppo- 

 site, stalked, ovate, acute, smooth and green, not silky, on both 

 sides, 2 or 3 inches long, with many transverse ribs ; they turn 

 entirely red, more or less deep, before they fall. Cymes termi- 

 nal, of numerous, greenish-white^owers, unpleasantly scented. 

 Petals revolute at the sides, inserted, with the stamens, into a 

 glandular ring, crowning the germen. Fruit dark purple, very 

 bitter, like every other part of the plant. Matthiolus records 

 that an oil is obtained from these berries by pressure, after they 

 have first been boiled, which is used for lamps in the country 

 near Trent. 



2. C. Suecica. Dwarf Cornel. 



Herbaceous. Umbel between two branches, stalked, with 

 an involucrum. Ribs of the leaves but slightly combined. 



C. Suecica. Linn. Sp. PI. 171. Fl. Lapp.ed. 2. 38. L5./.3. Willd. 

 v. 1. 660. Fl. Br. 188. Engl. Bot. v. 5. t.310. Hook. Scot. 55. 

 Don H. Br. 82. Willem. Stell. 96. 



C. herbacea. Huds. 71. Pall. Ross. v. 1. 52 j excluding the variety. 



C. pumila herbacea, Chameepericlymenum dicta. Dill. Elth. 108. 

 *.9l. 



Chameepericlymenum. Raii Syn. 261. Ger. Em. 1296./. Park. 

 Theatr. 1461./. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 60./. 



In moist alpine pastures. 



On the Cheviot hills of Northumberland, abundantly. Ray. ^ In 

 the Highlands of Scotland, frequent in boggy spots about rivu- 

 lets. Lightfoot. In the Hole of Horcum, near Scarborough. 

 Mr. Travis. 



