LARGE-LEAVED DOGWOOD. 
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the settlement of the Wahlamet, where, in the autumn of 
1835, the intermittent fever prevailed. In most cases pills of 
this extract timely administered gave perfect relief. Though 
the berries are somewhat bitter, they are still, in autumn, 
the favourite food of the Band-Tailed Pigeon. To the 
north this species prevails, probably as far as Fraser’s 
river, or Sitcha, but we did not meet with it California, nor 
any where eastward, even in the vicinity of the lower falls 
or cascades of the Oregon. There is therefore, no doubt, 
but that it is as hardy as the Common Dogwood and more 
deserving of cultivation. It has been raised in England from 
seeds which I brought over, but the plants are yet small. 
Plate XCVII. 
A branch of the natural size. a. A cluster of berries. 
William Bartram in his Travels in Georgia and Florida , 
gives the following account of the appearance of the Dog- 
wood ( Cornus Florida), as it appeared near the banks of 
the Alabama. “¥e now entered a remarkable grove of 
Dogwood trees which continued nine or ten miles unaltered, 
except here and there by a towering Magnolia grandifiora . 
The land on which they grow is an exact level ; the sur- 
face a shallow, loose, black mould, on a stratum of stiff 
yellowish clay. These trees were about 12 feet high, 
spreading horizontally ; and their limbs meeting, and inter- 
locking with each other, formed one vast, shady, cool 
grove, so dense and humid as to exclude the sunbeams, and 
prevent the intrusion of almost every other vegetable ; 
affording us a most desirable shelter from the fervid sun- 
beams at noonday. This admirable grove, by way of emi- 
nence has acquired the name of the Dog Woods. During 
a progress of near seventy miles through this high forest, 
there was constantly presented to view, on one hand or 
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