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PiantaGo MEDIA. Hoary Plantain, is, perhaps, less 
common. It has a shorter spike of flowers, and the leaves 
ovate, with scarcely any footstalks. 
Piantaco Coronopus. Buck’s-horn Plantain. This is 
much smaller than the three former, and easily distinguished 
from them. It has narrow leaves, very much pinnated or 
divided. Spike round and hairy. It is found generally on 
sterile soils. There is another species almost peculiar to the 
sea-side, and called 
PiantTaGo MARITIMA. Sea-side Planta. Its leaves are 
long, fleshy, and woolly at the base, the spike round. 
TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
CoOROLLIFLORZ. CORNACE. 
CORNUS. (CornzL.) 
Generic Character. Calyx with four teeth. Corolla of four 
petals and superior, that is, above the seed-vessel. Drupe, with 
a nut having two cells and two seeds. 
Cornus sANGUINEA. Wild Cornel, or Dog-wood. A 
shrub of five or six feet high, with straight, dark red 
