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CORNACE^ 



hairs ; flowers greenish-yellow ; berries black ; endocarp lilac. — 

 Banks, woods, rocks, and old walls ; general. — Fl. October, 

 No\'ember. rerennial. 



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Hf:DERA HjiLix {Coiumon Ivy). 



Ord. XXX VI. CoRN.4cE,E. -The Dqi'.wood F.vmily 



A small order, mostly shrubs or trees,_ inhabiting the temperate 

 regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They have mostly e.xsti- 

 pulate, opposite, simple leaves, small, pofysynimetric floiccrs, which 

 are generally tetramerous, and i — 4-chambered berry-like fruit, 

 with stony endocarps ; sepals 4, superior, vah-ate ; peUils 4 — :;, 

 epigynous ; slaiihvis 4 — 5, epigynous ; style single, thread-like ; 

 stigma simjjle or lobed. The Order contains few plants of 

 interest. The evergreen known as tlie Spotted Faurel (Aueiiba 

 japthiiea), now common in our gardens, js a member of the Order. 

 The spots are a disease which is only slightly transmitted by seed ; 

 but the plant, Lieing diiecious, is larg,ely multiplied liy layers. 

 The staminatc plant is now giown separately, or it can be grafted 

 on the pistillate shrub, so that the red berries are now conniionly 

 [iroduced. Beiit/uiniia jragi/era, a handsome shtub from the 



