( 27' ) 
Caules teretes, pubefcentes. Flores fej/iles 
inmajori capitulo2Q. Corotlajtava. Now 
I hope you are fatisfied. 
There is a fhrub in that hedge that G>r- 
will remind you of a line in the fecond **' 
Georgic. 
At myrtus validis haftibus, et bona bello Cornus. 
Examine the flower. *etrandria Monogy- 
nia. The coralla, you obferve, (lands above 
the germen, and confifts of four regular pe- 
tals. Now turn over your Synop/ls. You 
find it muft be in the fourth divifion. The 
firft plant is the Cornus, with an involucrum 
of 4 leaves, and a perianthium of one, with 
4 teeth. The corolla is lefs than the jnvo- 
lucrum^ and (horter than t\\zftamina. Thefe 
efTentials quadrate with that flower: there- 
fore you can have no doubt as to the genus; 
and as you learn, from your Flora Cantabri- 
gienfis, that there is but one Species in this 
county, your (hrub muft necefTarily be the 
Cornus fengtttftftr, or Dogberry ; a flirub which 
merits fome veneration, were it only for 
being Godfather to an admirable character 
in Much-ado about nothing. Honeft Ta- 
well! / neer foall look upon thy like again! 
Gar- 
