CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALS 



BUTTON-WOOD. AMERICAN BUTTON-WOOD. GLOBE-FLOWERED 



SHRUB. POND DOGWOOD. 



Tetrandria Monogynia, Linn. Rub'iacex, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Common calix O; proper superior, small and angular, 4-cleft. Corolla tubular, slender, 

 4-cleft. Stamina exserted. Stigm a globose. Capsule mostly bipartile, (2 to 4,) 

 2-celled, 2-seeded ; cells semibivalvular, exterior valve angular, indurated, 

 interior flat and flexile. Seed solitary, sheathed at the apex with a tuberose 

 callus. Receptacle globose, hairy. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves opposite and ternate. 



A shrub from fire to ten feet in height, often flowering when only 

 two feet high; very much branched. Bark of trunk rough, of the branches 

 smooth, of an umber-brown colour. Leaves oval, undulate, entire, acu- 

 minate and attenuated at base, smooth on either side. Petiole three- 



