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CORNUS FLORIDA, 
lLoudon, v. 2. 1017, 
Charles Lyell gave my father several young 
plants of this species, from America, about 1852; 
but only one is now alive (1872.) This stands in 
the Vicarage Grove, near the Abies Menziesii ; 
it appears tolerably healthy, but has grown very 
slowly, being now not more than about seven feet 
high, and the trunk only a few inches round. 
Though so small, the bark already shows the 
character noticed by Michaux, the cracks running 
in great measure rectangularly. so as to divide it 
into squares more or less regular. This tree 
flowered for the first time in June, 1868, and the 
single head of flowers which it produced was sent 
up to me, to London, on the toth of that month. 
The involucre was much smaller than in the wild 
dried specimens which I have from America, 
but otherwise agreed well with them and with the 
descriptions. 
A few more flowers were produced in 1869, and 
again in 1870; but with the involucres still smaller 
than in the first instance. It seems very strange 
that a tree which ts described as being one of the 
most common and widely spread in North America, 
should succeed so ill here, where so many American 
trees and shrubs thrive perfectly. 
