S6 
TETRANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
palustris. 
flerida. 
nute. Capsule surrounded by the base of 
the calix, 4-sided, 4-ceiled, many-seeded. 
— Nutt. 
1. I. 
Isnardia palustris, Willd. 
Ludwigia nitida, Mich and Pursh* 
L. apetala, Walt. fl. Car. 89. 
L. repens, Swartz, fl. ind. occid. 1 p. 273. (Pursh.) 
Icon. Lam. Encycl. 3. t. 77. 
A common looking plant, floating in ditches occasionally, but 
most commonly found in half exhausted pools and trenches, 
and rarely creeping on wet ground. In such places in Jersey 
extremely common and abundant. More rare this side of the 
river. On the commons in muddy puddles near brick-kiln ponds- 
Flowers very small. Perennial. May to September. 
80. CORNUS. i. Gen ph 194. (Caprifolia.) 
Flowers sometimes aggregated in a 4-leaved 
involucrum . — Calix 4-toothed. Petals 4, 
small, broader at the base. Drupe inferior, 
not crowned by the calix ; nut 2-celkd, 2- 
seeded. — Nutt. 
1. C. a small tree ; leaves ovate acuminate; involu- 
cres large, somewhat ob-cordate ; berries ovate. 
Willd. 
Icon. Catesb. Car. t. 27 Bot. Mag. 526. Bar- 
ton’s Vegetable Materia Medicaof the United 
States, Vol. E t. 3. Mich. f. N. Am. Sylv. t. 48. 
Dogwood. Large Jiowered Cornel. 
Every one knows the Dogwood, so very common in al)[ 
our woods, and of which it is one of the greatest ornaments. 
Very valuable for its medical virtues, which are tonic and an- 
tiseptic. See Barton’s Veg. Mat. Med. U. S. — May. 
