186 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



species, entire. Plowers white or cream-colour, in corymbose cymes 

 or panicles without involucre&, or dark-purple or greenish-white or 

 yellow in heads or umbels surrounded by an involucre which is 

 generally pctaloid. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from comu, a Lorn ; because its branches 

 are like horns, from their hardness and rigidity. 



SPECIES I.-CORN US SUECICA. Linn. 

 Plate DCXXXIV. 



Kliizome creeping, woody, sending up simple or slightly- 

 branched herbaceous stems, with 3 to 8 pair of sessile oval 5- to 

 7-ribbed opposite leaves, pointed at both ends. Flowers in umbels, 

 inclosed in an involucre of 4 oval or roundish-rhomboidal white 

 petaloid leaves, longer than the dark -purple flowers. 



On moors and pastures in Alpine districts. In the Hole of 

 Horkum and CrossclifiPe Banks, or near Hackness, -Yorkshire ; on 

 the Cheviots, and not unfrequent in the Scotch Highlands. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Hootstock woody, buried, branched. Stems erect, 2 to 9 inches 

 high, Avith several pairs of scales at the base, succeeded by pairs 

 of leaves increasing in size upwards, the largest \ to IJ inch long. 

 Umbel stalked, terminal, not unfrequently with a pair of opjoosite 

 branches from the axles of the upper leaves overtopping the umbel, 

 and barren. Involucre -^ to 1 inch across. Bracts deciduous. 

 Pedicels longer than the calyx-tube when in flower, but shorter 

 than the mature fruit. Calyx-segments triangular. Petals oblong- 

 oblanceolate. Drupes red, about the size of swan-shot. Plant 

 pale-green, finely downy, with distant adpressed hairs on the 

 stem-leaves, pedicels, and calyces. Leaves glaucous beneath. 



Dwarf Cornel. 



Fi'ench, Cornouiller. German, Schwedische Cornelle. 



The berries of this pretty little plant are eaten by the Highlanders to improve 

 appetite, and hence are called Lus ct chraois, or Plant of Gluttony. In the Arctic 

 regions bears fatten on these berries ; whence they are called by the Crees Musqua 

 muna. 



SPECIES II.— C ORNUS SANGUINE A. Linn. 



Plate DCXXXV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 244. 



Stem woody, much branched. Leaves shortly stalked, oval or 

 ovate-oval, acute or sub-cuspidate, with a strong midrib, and 3 or 

 4 pairs of lateral veins springing all from the basal half of the leaf. 



