COR'NUS CANADENSIS. 
CANADIAN DOGWOOD. 
Class. Order. 
TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAPRIFOLIJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. Introduced 
Canada. 
6 inches. 
July. 
Perennial. in 1774. 
No. 136. 
This term, or a corresponding one, has been em- 
ployed by botanists in different languages and ages. 
Theophrastus used the Greek kraneia; and after 
him Pliny used Cornus, each implying horny, which 
alluded either to the hardness of the wood, or the 
seed, of the plant which bore the name. 
Though our present one be a very humble her- 
baceous plant, the greater part of the same genus 
is composed of large shrubby subjects, some of 
which, from the compactness of their wood, are well 
calculated to support the name attached to them. 
The Cornus mascula, or Cornelian Cherry is men- 
tioned as producing wood of an extremely compact 
and durable nature, so much so, that for some pur- 
poses its wear has been considered equal to that of 
iron. The Grecians made their spears of it; and 
the modem Indians their arrows; and of the Cor- 
nus sanguinea, or common Dogwood, as though to 
mimic these uses, our own butchers usually make 
their skewers. 
It is propagated amongst us only by division of 
roots. It flourishes when planted in sandy peat, 
and seems to prefer a shady situation. 
Hort. Kew. 2. v. 1, 261. 
