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4. C. sericea JJHerit. : branches expanded ; leaves ovate, acuminate, the 

 under surface clothed with a silky ferruginous down; cymes depressed, 

 woolly ; drupe globose. C. lanuginosa Mich. C. alba Walt. 



Banks of streams. Can. to Geor. and Louis. May, June. ^7. Stem 5 10 

 feet high, with purplish bark. Leaves varying in form and pubescence. Flow- 

 ers yellowish-white. Drupe pale-blue. Swamp Dogwood. 



5. C. stolonifera Mich. : stem often reclined and stoloniferous, with red- 

 dish-purple branches ; leaves ovate, somewhat acuminate, obtuse at base, 

 rough with minute pubescence on both sides, whitish beneath; cymes 

 small, flat, rather crowded ; drupe globose. C. alba Wang. C. sanguinea 

 Pursh. ? not of Linn. 



Banks of streams. Can. from lat. 69 to N. Y. W. to Miss. May, June, fy . 

 < Stems sometimes 5 10 feet long, erect, or prostrate and rooting. Flowers 

 white, in small cymes. Drupe small, white or lead-colored. C. sanguinea 

 seems not to be a native of North America. The plant described under that 

 name by our botanists, is thought by Torrey and Gray to be this species ; while 

 Darlington connects it with C. sericea. C. stricta Lam. (Beck Bot. 1st Ed.), is 

 said to be confined to the southern states. Stoloniferous Dogwood. 



6. C. paniculata L'Herit. : branches erect, smooth ; leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late or oval, acuminate, acute at base, rough with a minute pubescence, 

 hoary beneath ; cymes loose, usually paniculate, smooth ; drupe small, de- 

 pressed-globose. C. racemosa Lam. 



Wet woods. Can. to Penn. W. to Miss. July. T? .-Stem 68 feet high, 

 with a grayish bark. Flowers white, in very numerous panicled or thyrsoid 

 cymes. Drupe white or lead-colored. Panicled Dogwood. 



f-f- Leaves alternate. 



7. C. alternifolia Linn. : branches alternate, warty ; leaves alternate, 

 broad-oval or ovate, acuminate, smooth above, hoary pubescent beneath ; 

 cymes depressed and spreading ; drupe globose. 



Shady woods. Can. to Car. W. to Ken. June. A small tree 15 20 feet 

 high, with spreading branches. Leaves on slender petioles. Flowers yellowish- 

 white. Drupe dark-blue. Alternate-leaved Dogwood. 



ORDER LXIV. LORANTHACE^E. LORANTHS. 



Calyx, with 3, 4 or 8 sepals often joined into a tube, usually 

 with 2 bracts at base, sometimes none. Petals none. Sta- 

 mens as many as the sepals, and opposite to them, when they 

 are present. Ovary 1 -celled ; style 1 or none ; stigma simple. 

 Fruit succulent. Seed solitary ; albumen fleshy. Shrubs, al- 

 most parasitical. Leaves fleshy, entire, mostly opposite, rarely 

 wanting. 



VISCUM. Linn. Misseltoe. 

 (From the Latin viscus, glue ; in allusion to its glutinous fruit.) 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious. STERILE FL. Sepals 4, 

 (rarely 3 -5,) fleshy, the segments triangular. FERTILE FL. 



