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919. C. (a.j arcuate. 



stricta and C. (a.) paniculate, have much narrower leaves, and a more compact 

 fastigiate habit of growth, than any other species or variety of the genus. C. 

 (a.) paniculata is the handsomest of the three sorts for a small garden, as it is 

 easily kept of a small size, and in a neat shape, and it flowers profusely. 



7. C. (A.) CIRCINA'TA IS Kent. The rounded-leaved Dogwood. 



Identification. L'Herit. Corn., p. 7. No. 8. t. 3. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 399. 



Synonymes. C. tomentosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 91. ; C. rugbsa Lam. Diet. 2. p. 115.; C. 



virginiana Hort. Par. 

 Engravings. Schmidt Baum., 2. t. 69. ; and our fig. 919. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches waited. Leaves 

 broadly oval, acuminated, clothed with hoary 

 tomentum beneath. Corymbs depressed, 

 spreading. Branches slightly tinged with 

 red. Leaves broad, waved on their edges. 

 Flowers white, as in most of the species. 

 Pomes globose, at first blue, but at length 

 becoming white. (Doris Mill.} A large shrub. 

 North America, from Canada to Virginia, on 

 the banks of rivers ; and probably of Cali- 

 fornia. Height 5ft. to 10ft. Introduced 

 in 1784. Flowers white; June and July. 

 Fruit at first blue, and then turning white ; 

 ripe in October. Decaying leaves rusty 

 brown. Naked young wood green, tinged with red. 



Readily distinguished from all the other sorts, by its broader leaves, and its 

 rough waited branches. 



8. C. OBLO'NGA Wall. The oblong-leaved Dogwood. 



Identification. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. InA, 1. p. 432. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 398. 

 Synonyme. C. paniculata Hamitt. ex D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 140. 

 Engraving. Our Jig. 920. from a specimen in Dr. Lindley's herbarium. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves oblong, acuminated, 

 acute at the base, glaucous, and rather sca- 

 brous beneath, with many excavated glands 

 along the axils of the ribs and nerves. Co- 

 rymbs spreading, panicled. Young shoots 

 clothed with short adpressed hair. Leaves 

 4 in. to 6 in. long, and 1 in. to lin. broad. 

 Petioles about an inch long. Flowers white 

 or pale purplish, fragrant. Calyx clothed 

 with adpressed silvery hairs, as well as the 

 pedicels and petals. Ovarium 3-celled. Pome ovate-oblong. (Don's Mill.) 

 A large shrub. Nepal, about Narainhetty, Katmandu, and the Valley of 

 Dhoon. Height 10ft. to 15ft. Introduced in 1818. Flowers white or 

 purplish, fragrant. 



ii. Involucratce Dec. 



Derivation. From involucrum, an involucre, with which the heads of flowers are severally sur- 

 rounded. 

 Sect. Char. Flowers disposed in heads or umbels, surrounded by coloured 



involucres, which are usually composed of 4 leaves. {Dec. Prod.) Trees, 



with yellow umbelled flowers. 



t 9. C. MA'S L. The male Dogwood, the Cornel, or Cornelian Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Lin. So , 171. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 400. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Sunonumes. C. mascula VlUrit. Corn. No. .4. ; Long Cherry Tree ; Cornelia ; Cornouiller male, 



Cornes, Corneilles, Fr. ; Kernel Kirsche Hartriegel, Ger. ; Corgnolo, Ital 

 Derivation. The name of mas has been applied to this species since the days of Theophrastus ; in 



all probability, because young plants are barren for many years after they show flowers ; these 



