XXII. THE SILKY CORNEL. All 
savages of the Missouri, from whence it (the plant) seems to 
extend across the continent and appears again in Siberia.” 
Torrey and Gray show that the Siberian plant is another spe- 
cies, C. alba. 
It occurs plentifully in swamps in Berkshire ; and 1s found 
from Newfoundland, through Canada and the Northern States 
to latitude 42°, and west to Ohio.—F7. N. A., I, 650. 
Sp. 4. Tue PanicLep Cornet. C. paniculdta. 1’ Heritier. 
A slender plant, from four to eight feet high, growing by the 
borders of fields and woods, in dry situations, and along the banks 
of streams and on hill-sides, and making a beautiful appearance 
when in flower. It has an upright stem, and slender, erect, oppo- 
site branches, covered with a grayish bark. The recent shoots 
are of a pale yellowish green with a brown tinge, sparsely dot- 
ted with brown. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, tapering at 
base, and ending in a fine long point, on short footstalks doubly 
channelled above. On both surfaces, are visible, with a magni- 
fier, numerous close-pressed, minute hairs. The under surface 
is whitish. The cymes, or heads of flowers are very numer- 
ous, on long, slender, pale yellow stems, with irregular branches. 
The calyx-tube 1s covered with a white, silky down, and ends 
in minute, recurved, hairy teeth. The margin of the ovary, 
which fills the cup, is purple or red. The petals pointed, lance- 
shaped, white. Stamens erect, white. Style club-shaped. The 
fruit is pale white, small, depressed, globose, like an apple, the 
short style standing in the terminal cavity. 
Flowers in May and June. Fruit matures in August and 
September, when the fruit-stalk is of a delicate pale scarlet. 
Sp. 5. T'sz Sirxy Corner. C. sericea. L. 
A showy, erect plant, somewhat spreading, growing along 
the banks of streams, and in wet meadows and on moist hills, 
by fences, five to ten feet high. ‘The branches and upper part 
of the stem are purple, sprinkled, on the older stocks, with rusty 
gray, and often entirely gray or brown. Recent shoots green, 
or purplish green, and, with the leaf- and fruit-stalks, usually 
