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the summit a single long-peduncled umbel of greenish flowers, surrounded by a 
whorl of three 3 -7-foliolate leaves. Berry red or greenish. 
1. P. quinquefolium, L. Root fusiform; leaflets 5-7, oblong-obovate, 
serrate, stalked ; styles 2, berry crimson.— Rich woods along the mountains, 
Georgia, and northward, July. — Stem 1° high. Leaflets 2/- 3! long. 
2. P. trifolium, L. Root globose; leaflets 3-5, lanceolate, serrate, ses- 
sile; styles 3; berry greenish. — With the last. — Plant 4' — 6/ high. 
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Orper 68. CORNACEJE. (Docwoop FaxiLY.) 
Trees or shrubs, with simple, entire or rarely toothed exstipulate leaves, 
and perfect or polygamous flowers. — Calyx coherent with the 1— 2-celled 
ovary, 4~5-toothed. Petals 4 — 5, valvate in the bud, sometimes wanting. 
* Stamens 4 ~ 10, inserted into the margin of the disk that crowns the ovary. 
Ovules solitary, anatropous, pendulous. Fruit a berry-like 1- 2-celled, 
1- 2-seeded drupe. Embryo nearly as long as the fleshy albumen. Coty- 
ledons large and foliaceous. 
1. CORNUS, Tourn. Docwoopn. Connex. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx 4-toothed. Petals and stamens 4. Stigma capitate. 
Drupe 2-celled, 2-seeded. — Shrubs or low trees, Leaves and branches opposite 
(except No. 1). Flowers in naked spreading cymes, or capitate, and subtended 
by a colored involucre. 
* Flowers white, in a loose open cyme : involucre none. 
1. C. alternifolia, L’Herit. Leaves oval, abruptly acute at each end, 
Pale and pubescent beneath, long-petioled, and, like the greenish striped branch- 
es, alternate ; drupes deep blue. — Banks of streams, Florida, and northward. 
May. — A widely branching shrub, or small tree. 
2. C. stricta, Lam. Leaves ovate or oblong, abruptly acute or acuminate, 
Smooth, whitish beneath; cymes flat or depressed at the summit; drupes and 
anthers pale blue. — Swamps, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. April 
A Shrub or small tree. Branches brown. ge a 
3. C. paniculata, L'Herit. Leaves smooth, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
Paler beneath ; cymes convex at the summit, somewhat panicled, loose-flowered ; 
drupes white, depressed-globose.— North Carolina and northward. May and 
J une. — Shrub 49 -8° high. Branches gray. i = 
4. C. sericea, L. Leaves ovate or elliptical, smooth above, the lower sur- 
face, like the purplish branches and close depressed cyme, silky-pubescent; 
drapes pale blue. —Low woods, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. May. 
j — Shrub 69 ~ 19° high. ; S VEDI di 
