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four or five white leaves resembling petals, in the centre of 

 which are twenty or more small blackish flowers, on short 

 peduncles ; the flowers are very small, in a simple umbel ; 

 they are succeeded by a cluster of berries, which are red when 

 ripe, and each contain a heart-shaped stone. The berries 

 have a sweetish watery taste, and are acceptable to children. 

 The Highlanders suppose, that they create an appetite, and 

 hence the plant is called by the Erse language, lus a chrasis, 

 or plant of gluttony. It flowers in June, and in England is 

 commonly known under the name of Dwarf Honeysuckle. Ii 

 is found on the Cheviot Hills, and other parts of the northern 

 counties ; and in moorish places near rivulets, on the sides 

 of the Highland mountains in Scotland. Native also of the 

 north of Europe, and of the whole northern tract of the 

 Russian empire, from the Baltic to the Eastern Ocean. It is 

 very difficult to preserve this plant in gardens : the only 

 method is, to remove it from its natural place of growth with 

 good balls of earth adhering to the roots, and replant it in a 

 moist shady situation, where it will not be annoyed by the 

 roots of other plants. It may be preserved two or three years 

 in such a situation, but will seldom continue longer. 



9. Cornus Canadensis; Canadian Dogwood. Herbaceous, 

 with no branches. It is only a hand in height; stems several, 

 herbaceous, upright, four-cornered, purplish, having some 

 opposite slightly clasping leaves at bottom, which wither 

 and fall off; flowers pedicelled, upright, white, with a violet- 

 coloured bottom. It flowers in August, and is a native of 

 Canada, Labrador, and Newfoundland. 



10. Cornus Circinata. Branches warted ; leaves orbicu- 

 late, tomentose, and hoary underneath ; cymes depressed. 

 Stem upright, branched, gray, about six feet high ; flowers 

 pedicelled, upright, white, five lines wide. It is distinguished 

 by its orbicular, wrinkled, very green leaves, the cymes 

 bract ed at bottom, and its very thick tubercled branches. 

 It is a native of Pennsylvania, where it has long been culti- 

 vated ; and may be met with, but not commonly, in France. 



11. Cornus Stricta ; Upright Dogwood. Branches strict; 

 leaves ovate, concolor, almost naked ; cymes panicled. Stem 

 several, upright, brownish, six feet high ; branches "oppo- 

 site, round, in younger plants strict, in older patulous. 

 The twigs, and especially the suckers, stiflish, having rings 

 at the joints, purple, warted closely at the base ; flowers 

 pedicelled, white, with the disk only red, four lines in dia- 

 meter. The fruit appears too late to ripen in our climate, 

 and the leaves continue green till the frost comes on. Native 

 of North America. 



12. Cornus 1'uniculata ; New Holland Dogwood. Branches 

 erect; leaves ovate, hoary underneath; cymes panicled. 

 Stems very many, upright, much branched, round, gray ; 

 leaves acuminate, almost entire ; flowers pedicelled, upright, 

 white, three lines in diameter; fruits white, retaining the style. 

 It is distinct from every other species, in having the cymes 

 elongated into a thyrsc, or panicle. It is handsome, and very 

 full of flowers, which come out in the spring, or early in the 

 .summer, and is loaded with fruit during several months in 

 .iutumn. Native of North America. 



Cornutiz: a genus of the class Didynamia, order Gymno- 

 spermia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth one-leafed, 

 roundish, very small, tubular, five-toothed, permanent. 

 Corolla: one-]>etalled, ringcnt; tube cylindric, much longer 

 than the calix ; border four-cleft, upper division erect, 

 r.mndish, lateral ones distant, lower roundish, entire. Sta- 

 mina : tilamenta four, of which two project beyond the tube 

 of the corolla; antherae simple, inrlininir. Pistil: germen 

 roundish ; ttylo very long, two-parted ; stigmas tliickish. 

 Pericarp: berry globose, at the oase comprehended by the 



calix. Seed: single, kidney-form. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Calix: five-toothed. Stamina: two of them longer than the 

 corolla. Style: very long. Berry: globular, one-seeded. 

 The species are, 



1. Cornutia Pyramidata; Hoary-leaved Cornutia. Leaves 

 opposite, ovate ; flowers in terminating corymbs. It grows 

 to the height of ten or twelve feet. The branches are four- 

 cornered, and grow straggling ; flowers in corymbs at the 

 ends of the branches, of a fine blue colour ; they appear 

 usually in autumn, and sometimes remain in beauty for two 

 months or more. It abounds in several of the West India 

 islands, and also at Campeachy and La Vera Cruz. Cornutia 

 is propagated by seeds, which should be sown early in the 

 spring, on a hot-bed. The plants should be each trans- 

 planted into a small pot of light fresh earth, as soon as they 

 appear, and immediately plunged into a hot-bed of tanner's 

 bark, observing to shade them from the sun until they have 

 taken root ; after which, fresh air must be admitted in 

 proportion to the warmth of the season ; and it should be 

 frequently watered, as it naturally grows on swampy soils. 

 When the plants have filled the pots with their roots, they 

 ought to be removed into others of a larger size, and again 

 plunged into a hot-bed, where they should remain till Octo- 

 ber, and should then be plunged into the tan or the bark- 

 stove ; for unless this be done, it will^be very difficult to 

 preserve them through the winter. In the third year they 

 will flower in the stove, and make a fine appearance : but 

 they never perfect their seeds in England. They may also 

 be propagated by cuttings, which if planted into pots filled 

 with earth, and plunged into a bark-bed, observing to shade 

 and water them, will take root, and must be afterwards 

 treated as the seedling plants. 



2. Cornutus Quinata. Leaves quinate, lanceolate-ovate ; 

 flowers in racemes. This is a middle-sized tree, with 

 spreading round branches; leaves acuminate, quite entire, 

 smooth, on a long common petiole; flowers greenish yellow; 

 corolla somewhat funnel-shaped, the upper lip trifid, the 

 lower bifid, and shorter. Native of China, in the woods near 

 Canton. 



Coronilla ; a genus of the class Diadelphia, order Decan- 

 dria. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calir : umbellule simple; 

 perianth one-leafed, very stiort, compressed, bifid, erect, 

 the three inferior teeth smaller; the two superior conjoined, 

 permanent. Corolla: papilionaceous; standard heart-shaped, 

 reflected on all sides, scarce longer than the wings ; wings 

 ovate, converging at top, gaping at bottom, obtuse ; keel 

 compressed, acuminate, ascending, usually shorter than the 

 wings. Stamina: filamenta diadelphous, single, and nine- 

 cleft, ascending at almost a right angle, the tips widish ; 

 anthera simple, small. Pistil: germen columnar, oblong ; 

 style bristled, ascending ; stigma small, obtuse. Pericarp : 

 legume very long, columnar, straight, contracted, with an 

 isthmus between each seed, two-valved, one-celled, parting 

 by joints. Seeds: many. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. ( 

 two-thirds two-lipped, the upper teeth connate. Standard .- 

 scarcely longer than the wings. Legume : contracted between 

 the seeds. The species are, 



1. Coronilla Emerus ; Scorpion Senna. Shrubby: pedun- 

 cles with about three flowers , claw of the corolla three times 

 the length of the calix ; stem angular, not very straight, 

 branched, and brachiate ; leaves alternate ; leaflets seven or 

 nine, inclining to inversely heart-shaped. Height, when wild, 

 from two to six feet, and in gardens, from eight to nine; corolla 

 yellow; standard very remote from the other petals. Native (if 

 Germany, Austria, Carniola, Switzerland, France, and Savoy. 

 It is easily propagated by sowing the seed, which it commonly 



