TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cornus. 41 



Dry, sandy, gravelly ground. Bullingdon Green. Behind the Ob- 

 servatory. Sb. New College Gardens. Rev. Mr. Young. 



An. June. 



Stalk four to seven inches. Ls. root-ones numei'ous, spreading in 

 a star-like form, mostly pressed close to the ground. Spike 

 close, gi'eenish, short. 

 Plant very variable in size, and in the clefts oils. 



(CENTU'NCULUS. Chaff-weed. 



C. minimus. Small Ch. Flowers stalkless. Corolla 

 glandless at the base. E. B. 531. C. 3. 11. 



Watery heaths. On Gerard's Cross Common, near Bulstrode, 

 Bucks, in great plenty with Radiola millegrana. Tur. 



An. June, July. 



Very diminutive, one to two inches high. Ls, egg-shaped. Fl. 

 axillary, solitary, stalkless, white or reddish, opening in bright 

 sunshine only.) 



SANGUISORBA.' Burnet. 



S. officinalis. Great B. Spikes e^^g-shaped. E. B. 

 1312. P. sylvestris. G. E. 1045^. 



Meadows, pastures. 



Per. July. 



Stem two feet, erect, with few Is. panicled above. Ls. winged, 

 with an odd one at the end. Leaflets opposite, egg-shaped, 

 sharply notched : a pair of small toothed appendages at the base 

 of their partial stalks. Root Ls. on long foot-stalks : the rest 

 nearly stalkless, with stipulas. Fl. dark, dull purple. Spikes 

 terminal. 



CORNUS.^ Cornel. 



C. sanguinea. Wild G.y Dog-wood. Branches straight. 

 Leaves green on both sides. Cymes with no involucre, 

 flat. E. B. 249. C.foemina. G. E. 1467- 



Hedges, thickets. 



Per. a shrub. June. 



Four or five feet : hark smooth ; dark red, in the older branches. 



Ls. opposite, egg-shaped, entire, strongly nerved, entii'ely red, 



before falling. FL in cymes, terminal, greenish white : pet. 



rolled back in the margin. Germ, crowned with a glandular 



ring. Berries dark purple, bitter. 



' From a supposed astringent power of the plant, to suppress and absorb 

 blood : sanguis, blood, and sorbeo. to absorb. 



2 From Lat. cornu, a horn : from the hardness of tiie wood. H. 



