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

 t'astigiate habit of growth, than any other species or variety of the genus. C. 

 (a.) paniciiU'ita is the handsomest of the three fjorts for a small garden, as it is 

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



'i 7. C. (a.) circina'ta UHerit. The YoxxndeA-leaved Dogwood. 



, 3. p. 399. 

 C. rugcjsa Lam. Diet. 



2. p. 115.; C. 



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

 Synutii/mes. C. tomentosa ilichx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 91. ; 



virgiiiiina Hort. Par. 

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



Spec. Char., S)-c. Branches warted. 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. {Don's Mill.) A large shrub. 

 North America, from Canada to Virginia, on 

 the banks of rivers ; and probably of Cali- 

 fornia. Height 5 ft. to 10 ft. 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 wooci green, tinged with red. 



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

 ' roush warted branches. 



919. C. (a.; circinita 



"fc 8. C. oblo'nga Wall. 



The ohlong-leaved Dogwood. 



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

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

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



! Spec. Char., c^-c. Leaves oblong, acuminated, 



acute at the base, glaucous, and rather sca- 

 i 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 Hin. broad. 

 I Petioles about an inch long. Flowers white 



or pale purplish, fragrant. Calyx clothed 



with adpressed silvery hairs, as well as the ^^"^ ^- "''''"* 



I pedicels and petals. Ovarium 3-celled. Pome ovate-oblong. (Do7i's Mill.) 

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



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



purplish, fragrant. 



ii. Involucrutce Dec. 



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



^erivatton. 

 rounded. 



\ 



^cf. 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. 



, 9. C. ma's L. The male Dogwood, the Cornel, or Cornelian Clierry Tree. 



A-ntification. Lin. Sp., 171. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 400. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 183G. 



\ynonymes. C. mftscula L'/ZcViV. Corn. No.. 4. ; Long Cherry Tree ; Cornelia; Comouiller male, 



1 Comes, Corneilles, Fr. ; Kornel Kirsche Hartriegel, Ger. ; Corgnolo, Ital- 



trrivation. 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 



