ECHINOPANAX,  CORNACEZ. 271 
CORNUS, , 
stylopodium obsolete; styles united to the middle, Shaded mountain ra- 
vines California. | 
Var. acuminata Watson in Herb.. Leaflets long acuminate, pedicels- 
10-14 lineslong. Mountain streams Southern Oregon. 
2 ECHINOPANAX Decaisne & Planch, in Rey. Hortic, 1854, 105. 
Densely prickly shrubs with large palmately lobed leaves: 
and greenish-white flowers in dense paniculate umbels. 
Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals 5, valvate in the bud. Stamens- 
5, alternate with the petals: filaments filiform; anthers ovate: 
to oblong. Ovary 2-3-celled: styles 2, filiform: stigma termi-. 
nal. Fruit laterally compressed, drupaceous; endocarp indur- 
ated. | 
E. horridum Decaisne & Planch. 1. c. Very prickly throughout: 
stems erect from a decumbent base, 4-12 feet high, leafy at the top: leaves- 
roundish-cordate, prickly both. sides, palmately lobed, aculeate-dentate, 
more or less pubescent beneath, 6-24 inches long: inflorescence terminal, 
densely tomentose: rays subtended by a scarious laciniately cut bract: 
petals ovate, with a broad base: styles united to the middle. In moun-- 
tain swamps, Oregon to the arctic regions. 
OrpER XLV. CORNACEA® Link. Handb. ii, 2. 
Trees, shrubs_or rarely herbs with opposite mostly entire 
pinnately veined leayes without stipules and cymose or capi- 
tate infloresence, with or without an involucre. Calyx adher-- 
ent to the ovary; the limb 4-5-toothed or lobed, valvate in the: 
bud. Petals distinct, as many as the calyx-lobes and alter- 
nate with them, inserted on the margin of the epigynous disk,,. 
valvate in the bud: stamens 4-5, inserted with the petals and 
alternate with them: anthers introrse, mostly cordate. Ovary 
one-celled with a single pendulous ovule. Style single. Fruit 
drupelets covered with the remains of the calyx. Seed ana- 
tropous. Embryo nearly as long as the fleshy albumen. 
1 CORNUS Tourn. (Doewoop) 
Trees, shrubs. or herbs with. opposite entire leaves and small. 
perfect flowers in dichotomous cymes or involucrate heads. 
Limb of the calyx 4-toothed, minute. Petals oblong, spread- 
ing. Filaments filiform. Style subclavate; stigma obtuse or- 
capitate. Drupelets not connate. 
* Flowers greenish or purple, in a close head, surrounded by a con- 
spicuous involucre of white petal-like bracts: fruit bright red. 
+ Low and herbaceous, from slender, creeping root-stocks. 
C. Canadensis L. Sp.i, 118. Stems simple, 4-8 inches high; leaves: 
scarcely petioled, mostly in an apparent whorl of 4 or 6 near the summit, 
oval to obovate pointed at both ends, somewhat appressed-pubescent on. 
both sides 2-3 inches long, near the middle of the stem; a pair of smaller: 
leaves and scale-like bracts below;. peduncles 1-3 inches long: inyolucral 
