40. CORNEiE. 
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Stam. 8 — 10, in j)airs alternate with the petals, anthers 1- 
celleil. Berry 4 — 5-celle(l; cells 1 -seeded. 
2. IIedera. Cal. su])erior, limb of 5 teeth. Pet. 5— 10, not 
adhering at the apex. Stam. 5 — 10. Styles 5 — 10, conni- 
vent, or eomhined into one. Berry 5-celled and 5-seeded, 
crowned with the calyx. — Closely allied by its embryo to 
Cornea;. 
• 1 . Adoxa Linn. 
1. A. Moschatellina (L.). — E. B.453 . — Rhizoma white, fleshy, 
toothed, stoloniferous. St. solitary, erect, simple, 3 — 4 in. high, 
with 2 opposite leaves, and a head of 4 whorled and 1 terminal 
flowers. Stam. often more or less combined, showing their 
number to be normally 4. FI. with a musky smell. Terminal 
fl. usually divided in fours, the others in fives, but the numbers 
vary. — Woods and shady hedge-banks. P. IV, V. 
2. Hedera Linn. 
1. H. Helix (L.) ; 1. coriaceous ovate or cordate and 5-lobed : 
lobes angidar, umbels simjrle downy erect. — E. B. 1267- — Climb- 
ing by means of rootlike fibres. L. of the flowering branches 
ovate-oblong, acute, entire. Berries black. — Rocks, old walls, 
hedges. Sh. X. XL Ivy. 
Order XL. CORNELL. 
Cal. 4-lobed. Pet. 4, oblong, broad at the base, inserted at 
the top of the calyx-tube, asstivation valvate. Stam. 4. Ovary 
2-cellcd. Style filiform. Fruit a drupe, crowned with the re- 
mains of the calyx ; endocarp thick and bony. Albumen fleshy. 
Seeds pendulous, solitary. — Leaves opposite. 
1. CoRNUS. Calyx-limb superior, of 4 teeth. Pet. 4. Stam. 4. 
Style 1 . Drupe with a 2-eelled and 2-seeded nut. 
1. CoRNUS i?im. 
1. C. sanguinea (L.); arborescent, branches straight, 1. ovate 
cuspidate green on both sides, cymes flat without an involucre. 
— E.B.249. St. 52. 3. — Shrub 5 — 6 feet high. Old bark red^ 
dish. Fl. numerous, white, in terminal ejones. Fr. dark purple. 
L. mostly opposite, strongly nerved, acutely cuspidate, rounded 
below. — Hedges and thickets. Sh. VI. Dog-wood. 
2. C. suecica (L.) ; herbaceous, 1. all opposite sessile ovate : 
nerves separate almost to the base, fl. umbellate shorter than the 
4-leaved petaloid involucre. — E. B. 310. St. 52. 1. — Flowering 
shoots about 6 in. high, annual, springing from the procumbent 
or subterranean creeping w'oody leafless stems. Fl. dark purple 
with yellow stamens, in a small sobtary terminal umbel with an 
