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slender shrub, from six to eight feet high, bearing handsome 

 bunches of flowers. It is distinguished by its warty or spot- 

 ted branches, and especially by its large, rounded, or broad- 

 oval, long-pointed leaves, white-downy beneath. Flowers 

 white, in flattish-topped cymes or elder-like clusters. Fruit 

 bluish. — Woods, banks of rivers; Newton, Brighton. — June. 



Comus jiorida Red Osier, False Box. A conspicuous 

 and very ornamental woody plant, in size between a shrub 

 and a tree; covered early in June with a profusion of white 

 flowers, appearing, at a distant view, like large single roses. 

 It is extremely regular in its manner of branching. The 

 branches are smooth, and have reddish bark, marked with 

 rings at the places of the former leaves. The proper flowers 

 are minute and obscure, growing out of the centre of an 

 involucre, which is apt to be mistaken for a proper corolla. 

 This involucre consists of four large white leaves, like petals, 

 obovate or inverted egg-formed, and appearing somewhat 

 heart-shaped. The fruit is a glossy, scarlet, berry-looking 

 drupe, containing two seeds. — Woods ; conunonly, perhaps, 

 in moist stony ground. Dedham and Quincy ; also, in the 

 woods north of Newton Theological Seminary. — June. 



Comus paniculdta I'Herit. Panicled Cornel. A shrub about 

 six feet high, with erect branches, dotted, or specked. 

 Leaves hairless, ovate, long-pointed, hoary beneath, small 

 for the genus. Calyx very minute, scarcely perceptible. 

 Flowers white, in many clusters, and being a more or less 

 oblong cyme, or rather cymose panicle, shaped like a bunch 

 of lilacs. Berries, white, globular, a little flattened. — Low 

 or swampy grounds ; Newton. — June, July. 



Comus sanguinea Bloody Cornel. A very showy species, 

 from eight to twelve feet high, with straight branches, of a 

 blood color. Leaves rather pubescent, pale beneath, broad, 

 ovate. Flowers white, in spreading cymose clusters. An- 

 thers yellow, showy. Berries brown (.■'). — Around lakes; 

 New York, &c. — June, July. 



DlERVILLff. 



Diervilla Tournefdrtii, Lonicera DierviUa L. Yellow Diervilla, 

 Bush Honeysuckle. A shrub from two to three feet high. 

 Leaves opposite, smooth, on short stems, ovate, notched on 

 the rim, and terminating in a long-drawn sharp point. Ca- 

 lyx oblong with five segments or divisions. Corolla yellow, 

 funnel-shaped, twice as long as the calyx, and having five 

 roundish, unequal segments. The flowers grow in the 

 shoulders of the upper leaves. — Rocky woods ; Cambridge, 

 Newton, &c. — June, July. Yours, 



Watertown, December, 1835. E. B. Kenrick. 



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