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WOOLLY-LEAVED CORN US. 
the other, spacious groves of this fine flowering tree, 
which must, in the spring season, when covered with blos- 
soms, exhibit a most pleasing scene,” p. 401. 
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WOOLLY-LEAVED CORNUS. 
CORNUS pubescens 7-amis purpurascentibus, ramulis cymisque hirsutis ; 
foliis ovalibus acutis glabriusculis subtus pattidis hirsuto-pubescentibus, 
cymis depressis, dentibus calycinis minutis , petalis lanceolatis acutis. 
Nutt, in Torrey and Gray, 1, p. 652. 
Coenus circinata. Ciiamis. and Schlecht. in Linnsea. 3, p. 139. 
Coenus sericea, ft. 1 occidentalis : leaves larger, more tomentose beneath. 
Toee. and Geay, vol. 1 , p. 652. 
This species is confined to the immediate borders of the 
Oregon and Wahlamet in wet and dark places. Accord- 
ing to Chamisso, it also exists round St. Francisco in 
Upper California. The stem is about 6 feet high, but it has 
no pretensions to become a tree, and is only introduced here 
for want of any other suitable opportunity of publishing it. 
Its true affinity is to Cornus stolonifera. The stem is simi- 
larly reclined and full of slender red twigs. It differs from 
that species, however, in the nature of its pubescence which 
is whitish and hirsute, with a crowded and close hirsute 
cyme, and larger lanceolate petals. The leaves are also 
oval, or somewhat broad ovate, and merely acute, not 
acuminate, almost smooth above, whitely and somewhat 
hirsutely pubescent beneath. The flowers are white and 
rather large, crowded so as to hide the pedicels. The fruit 
we have not observed. 
