186 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



species, entire. Flowers white or cream-colour, in corymbose cymes 

 or panicles without involucres, or dark-purple or greenish-white or 

 yellow in heads or umbels surrounded by an involucre which is 

 generally petaloid. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from cornu, a horn ; because its branches 

 are like horns, from their hardness and rigidity. 



SPECIES I— CORN US SUECICA. Linn. 

 Plate DCXXX1V. 



Rhizome creeping, woody, sending up simple or slightly- 

 branched herbaceous stems, with 3 to 8 pair of sessile oval 5- to 

 7-ribbcd opposite leaves, pointed at both ends. Flowers in umbels, 

 inclosed in an involucre of 1 oval or roundish-rhomboidal white 

 jietaloid leaves, longer than the dark -purple flowers. 



On moors and pastures in Alpine districts. In the Hole of 

 Horkum and Crosscliffe Banks, or near Hackness, Yorkshire ; on 

 the Cheviots, and not unfrequent in the Scotch Highlands. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock woody, buried, branched. Stems erect, 2 to 9 inches 

 high, with several pairs of scales at the base, succeeded by pairs 

 of leaves increasing in size upwards, the largest ^ to ly inch long. 

 Umbel stalked, terminal, not unfrequently with a pair of opposite 

 branches from the axles of the upper leaves overtopping the umbel, 

 and barren. Involucre | to 1 inch across. Bracts deciduous. 

 Pedicels longer than the calyx-tube when in flower, but shorter 

 than the mature fruit. Calyx-segments triangular. Petals oblong- 

 oblanceolate. Drupes red, about the size of swan-shot. Plant 

 pale-green, finely downy, with distant adpressed hairs on the 

 stem-leaves, pedicels, and calyces. Leaves glaucous beneath. 



Dwarf Con/el. 



French, CornouiUer. German, Schwedische CorneUe. 



The berries of this pretty little plant are eaten by the Highlanders to improve 

 appetite, and hence are called Lus a chraois, or Plant of Gluttony. In the Arctic 

 regions bears fatten on these berries ; whence they are called by the Crees Mtuqva 



iniiiia. 



SPECIES II.— C ORNUS SANGUINE A. Linn. 

 Plate DCXXXV. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. ill. 



Stem woody, much branched. Leaves shortly stalked, oval or 

 ovate-oval, acute or sub-cuspidate, with a strong midrib, and 3 or 

 4 pairs of lateral veins springing all from the basal half of the leaf. 



