CORNE.E. 335 



Obder lv. C R N E /E . 



Be CandoUe, Proilromus, iv. 271 (1830). Cornace^, Liiidl. Intr. 2 ed. 

 49(183(i). 



Trees, shrubs or uudershrubs, with opposite exstipulate leaves, and 

 naked or invohicrate cymose or capitate or amentaceous inflorescence. 

 Calyx-tube coherent with the ovary; limb 4-lobed or obsolete. Petals 4, 

 epigynous, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, alternate with the petals; anthers 

 2-celled. Style tiliform; stigma simple. Fruit drupaceous, 1 — 2-seeded. 

 Seed pendulous; embryo miniite; albumen fleshy. 



1. CORS'US, Plintj (Dogwood). Deciduous shrubs, or low semi- 

 herbaceous plants. Flowers perfect, not in aments. Drupe globose, 

 ovoid or oblong; putamen 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



* Flowers white, not involucnite, cymose, appearing later tlutn the 

 leaves; drupe small, subglobose. — Cobnus proper. 



1. C. glabrata, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 18 (1844); C. & E. Bot. Gaz. xv. 89. 

 Shrub 5—12 ft. high, with gray bark, and nearly or quite glabrous twigs 

 and foliage: leaves oblong to narrowly ovate, acute at each end, or 

 acuminate at apex, 1 — 2 in. long, green alike on both faces; petioles 

 short, slender: fl. in many small open flat-topped cymes: fr. globose, 

 white; stone little compressed, not furrowed, broader than high, the 

 breadth 2 lines or more. —In the Coast and Mt. Diablo Ranges from 

 Monterey Co. northward, also in the foothills of the Sierra. 



2. C. Torreyi, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 145 (1876); C. & E. 1. c. 34. 

 Size and habit unknown : leaves obovate or oblanceolate, abruptly acute 

 or short-acuminate, on rather long and slender petioles, lower face paler 

 and somewhat pubescent with loose silky hairs : cyme loose and spreading : 

 fr. white; stone obovoid, 2}4 — 3^2 lines long, somewhat flattened, acute 

 at base, ridged on the edges, tubercled at summit, higher than broad. — 

 Yosemite Valley, Br. Torreif. 



3. C. Greeiiei, C. & E. Bot. Gaz. xv. 36 (1890). Size and habit 

 unknown: twigs and inflorescence appressed-pubescent : leaves ovate, 

 obovate or oval, acutish or rol^nded at base, acute or acuminate at apex, 

 appressed-pubescent or glabrate above, beneath scarcely lighter but with 

 a sparse appressed pubescence of stiffish hairs of which some are straight, 

 others curved: fl. large, in loose paniculate cymes: calyx-teeth triangu- 

 lar: styles with enlarged greenish tips: fr. dark blue or purple; stone 

 globular, not furrowed, slightly ridged.— Probably of middle California, 

 but the specimens, as found in the old herbarium of the University, were 

 without a label, and neither the special locality nor the collector's name 

 can now be guessed. 



