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involucrum of four large white leaves, which are 

 generally end-bitten and a little coloured at their 

 extremities, and one oppofite pair, rather longer and 

 narrower than the other. The flowers within are 

 fucceeded by oblong, red berries. This flowers in 

 May and is defervedly ranked amongfl: the beautiful 

 flowering flirubs. The bark of this kind has been 

 ufed with fome fuccefs as a fubfl:itute for the Peru- 

 vian Bark. And to its top, regular difpofed flioots, 

 our fpinfl:ers are often indebted for their diftafFs. 



4. Corn us fanguinea, American Red-rod 

 Cornus. 



This grows in a moift: foil, to the height of eight 

 or ten feet, generally many ft:ems arifing from the 

 fame root. The bark of the young flioots is very 

 fmooth, and of a beautiful dark red colour. The 

 branches are placed oppofite, and alfo the leaves, 

 which much refemble the firft and third kinds above 

 defcribed. The flowers are produced in clufters at 

 the ends of the branches, of a whitifli colour; and 

 are fucceeded by fucculent berries of a bluifli colour 

 when ripq. 



C O R Y L U S. 



The HAZEL, or NUT-TREE- 



Clafs 21, Order 8. Monoecia Polyandria. 



^TTHE Male flowers are difpofed in a long Katkin. 



The Cal^x^ a common Katkin, imbricated on all fides, and 

 cylindrical; confining of Scales, which are uniflorous, 

 narrowed at the bafe, at the apex broader, more ob* 

 tufe, inflexed and three-cleft; the middle divifions of 

 equal length, but twice the width of and covering the 



The 



