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In swamps, on the margins of rivers, lakes, &c, and 

 never, I believe, on high, dry ground. 



This species has a very extensive range through the 

 continent of North- America. It grows abundantly in 

 both the Canadas, and in the New-England states, and 

 is very common in New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Ph. 



A shrub, from six or eight, to ten or twelve, feet in 

 height. Flowers (in Pennsylvania) in July and Au- 

 gust. Ripens its fruit in September. 



The reader who is desirous of obtaining information 

 relative to the medical properties of this species of Cor- 

 nus and of Cornus florida, is referred to the Materia 

 Medica Americana of Schoepf, to my Collections, and 

 especially to the valuable inaugural dissertation of Dr. 

 John M. Walker*. I shall only observe, in this place, 

 that since the publication of these works, much additional 

 testimony in favour of the useful powers of Cornus flo- 

 rida, as a remedy for intermittent and remittent fevers, 

 has been furnished by the practitioners of medicine, in 

 various parts of the United- States, and that we may 

 confidently pronounce the bark of this tree one of the 

 most valuable indigenous substitutes for the Cinchona, 

 or Peruvian bark, that has, hitherto, been discovered. 



The bark of Cornus sericea is one of the favourite 

 winter articles of food of the American beaver (Castor 

 Fiber). The ripe drupes are greedily devoured by the 

 common domestic fowl. — From the bark of the more 

 fibrous roots of this shrub, the Indians, in some parts of 



* A.i Experimental Inquiry into the Similarity in Virtue be- 

 tween the Cornus florida and sericea, and the Cinchona officinalis 

 of Linna:us, Sec., &c. Philadelphia: 1803. 

 SUPPL. M 



