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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 (hrubs. The bark of this kind has been 
ufed with fome fuccefs as a fubftitute for the Peru- 
vian Bark. And to its top, regular difpofed (hoots, 
pur fpinfters are often indebted for their diftaffs. 
4. C o R N u s fanguinea. American Redirect 
Cornu s . 
This grows in a moifl: foil, to the height of eight 
pr ten feet, generally many items arifing from the 
fame root. The bark of the young (hoots 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 clutters at 
the ends of the branches, of a whitifli colour; and 
are fucceeded by fucculent berries of a blui(h colour 
when ripe. 
C O R Y L U S. 
The HAZEL, or NUT-TREE. 
Clafs 21, Order 8 . Monoecia Polyandria. 
*nTHE Male flowers are difpofed in a long Katkin. 
A The Calyx , a common Katkin, imbricated on all fides, and 
cylindrical,- confifting 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 
reft, 
The 
