512 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
buildings and rocks, or trunks of trees, on which its coriaceous 
evergreen leaves and clinging and trailing branches form a promi- 
nent object. Some strange confusion has arisen, as we learn from 
the new edition of Sowerby’s Botany, between the Ivy and the 
_ Yew, in the writings of the poets, which Dr. Prior explains thus: 
“The Chanecpetys of Pliny, as we learn from Parkinson, was 
called in English, Ground Pine and Ground Ivie, after the Latin 
word Jva. But the name Ground Ivy had been assigned to 
another plant which was called in Latin, Hedera terrestris, and 
thus Ivy and Hedera came to be regarded as equivalent terms. 
But there was again another plant which was also called Hedera 
terrestris, viz., the creeping form of the Ivy (Hedera helix), and 
as Ivy ha teas equivalent to Hedera in the former case, 
so it did in this too, and eventually was appropriated to the 
full-grown evergreen shrub so well known. The botanical 
names of the Yew are so completely confused by the older 
botanists with those of the Ivy, that, dissimilar as are the trees, 
there can be no doubt that the origin of their names is identical.” 
The root of Panax quinguefolium, a species belonging to this 
order, furnishes a drug much used by the Chinese under the name 
of Gingseng ; and P. fruticosus, and P. cochleatus, natives of the 
Moluccas, are used as aromatic medicines by native ee in 
the East. 
The Cornace® are found all over the iecilpesale parts of 
Europe and America. Some of them, as Cornacea floritta, sericea, 
and circinata, are said to Possess tonic properties of a high 
order. The Cornel, or Dogwood, is a tree sometimes seen in our ~ 
hedges, and cultivated in our plantations; and the Cornelian 
Cherry (Cornus mascula) is common on the Continent, where its 
little clusters of starry yellow flowers are the earliest harbingers 
of spring. 
The Hamametrpacem, or Welsh Hazels, are found in N “ 
America, Japan, China, Central Asia, and South Africa; its 
most attractive member, the genus Rhodiola, “ whose great 
involucral leaves,” says Dr. Lindley, “ give quite a new aspect to 
the order, and points at an affinity of some kind with Liquidam- 
bars.” The Brunontace2 are, with the exception of one species 
Sanna at the Cape of Good Hope, all natives of Australia, 
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