2 1 6 Cornacecz Cornus. 



species in Europe, Asia, and North America. The name is 

 from cornu, a horn, from the hardness of the wood, or perhaps 

 the hard stone of the fruit. We have two indigenous species : 

 G. sanguined, Dogwood, a shrub with red bark, ovate opposite 

 leaves, and terminal cymes of white flowers without bracts and 

 small black berries ; and C. Suecica, an herbaceous plant about 

 6 inches high with terminal umbels of flowers supported by 

 four white bracts. The former is commoner in the southern, 

 and the latter confined to the northern part of the kingdom. 



1. C. mas. Cornelian Cherry. A small tree, native of 

 Europe, producing its little clusters of yellow flowers in Spring 

 before the leaves. The flowers are surrounded by an involucre 

 of four yellowish bracts. Leaves ovate-acuminate. Berry red. 

 There is a handsome variety with variegated foliage which 

 bears fruit abundantly. 



2. C. alba. A shrub with deep red bark, obovate oblong 

 acuminate leaves, and white flowers followed by white berries. 

 A native of Siberia. 



3. C. florida. A very ornamental little tree with ovate 

 oblong or obovate leaves pubescent beneath. Flowers large, 

 white, with a very large and conspicuous white involucre. 

 Berry scarlet. North America. 



4. G. fragifera, syn. Benthdmia fragifera. An evergreen 

 shrub with lanceolate leaves and terminal capitate small green 

 flowers ; involucre of four large yellowish bracts. In this 

 species the berries grow together, forming a large strawberry- 

 like scarlet fruit. A native of Nepal, and rather tender. 



5. C. Canadensis. An herbaceous species closely resembling 

 the native one, but the upper leaves are much larger, and the 

 flower-head more conspicuous. 



2. AfrCUBA. 



Evergreen shrubs with opposite leaves, dioecious tetramerous 

 small purplish paniculate flowers, and 1-celled 1-seeded 

 drupaceous fruits. The Japanese name. 



1. A. Himalaica. This is very near, and perhaps only 

 a variety of the following species, differing mainly in the 

 longer petioles and distant blunt tumid teeth of the leaves, 

 and in having spherical (not oblong) berries. The foliage is 

 ample and effective. We are not aware that there are any 

 variegated forms of this. The male only is in cultivation. 



2. A. Japonica, var. maculata. The mottled leaves of this 



