220 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cornus. 



1. E. alpinum. Alpine Barrenwort. 



Radical leaves none; stem-leaf twice ternate. 



E. alpinum. Linn. Sp. PI. 171. Willd. v. 1. 660. DeCand. Sijst. 



u.2.28. Fl.Br.187. Engl. Bot. v. 7. t. 438. Ft. Grtec. v. 2. 39. 



U50. CullumGO. With.199. Hook. Scot. 55. HopkirkGlott.25. 

 Epimedium. Dod. Pcmpt. 599./ Ger. Em. 480./. Lind.Alsat.136. 



t.6. 



In mountain thickets, rare. 



In Bingley woods, Yorkshire. Dr. Richardson. On Carrock Fell, 

 Cumberland. Mr. Thomas Hut ton. Skiddaw. Mr. E. Robson. 

 About the ruins of Mugdock castle, near Glasgow. Mr. Hopkirk. 

 At Hunter's Tryste, near Edinburgh. Dr. Hastings. Hooker. 



Perennial. Mat/. 



Root slender, thread-shaped. Stems solitary, simple, a foot high, 

 pellucid and tender, each bearing one most elegant and delicate, 

 twice or thrice ternate, lea/, whose fringed veiny leaflets, 1| or 2 

 inches long, hang perpendicularly, and increase in size after the 

 flowers are past. From the point of insertion of their common 

 footstalk, at the top of the stem, springs a branching cluster of 

 very handsome and singular drooping flowers, whose dark-red 

 petals are contrasted with the pale lemon -coloured nectaries, 

 which are full of honey, and altogether peculiar. The French 

 school deny them their proper appellation, because it was in- 

 vented by Linnaeus, and he sometimes extended the term too 

 far ; but this is no objection to its just application, as in this in- 

 stance, the Orchis tribe, and others innumerable. 



Another species, E. pinnatum, from Persia, is described by Pro- 

 fessor DeCandolle. 



70. CORNUS. Cornel. 



Linn. Gen. 59. Juss. 214. Fl. Br. 187. Tourn. t. 410. Lam. t. 74. 

 Gcertn. t. 26. 



Nat. Orel. Stellatcc. Linn. 47. Caprifolia. Juss. 58. 



Cal. superior, of 4 minute, deciduous teeth. Cor. of 4 ob- 

 long, acute, flat, equal petals, broad at the base. Filam. 

 awl-shaped, erect, longer than the pet. and alternate there- 

 with. Anth. roundish, incumbent. Germ, roundish, com- 

 pressed, inferior. Style thread-shaped, as long as the cor. 

 Stigma obtuse. Drupa roundish, naked and pitted at the 

 summit. Nut oblong, or somewhat heart-shaped, of 2 cells, 

 with 1 kernel in each. 



Shrubby or herbaceous; furnished rarely in the former case, 

 but always in the latter, with a large white invohicrwn, 

 of 4 leaves, under each umbel ; the cymose species have 

 none. Leaves simple, entire ; opposite, except in one in- 



