Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
bulky growth, garnilhed with {mail, oblong leaves, 
and {pikes of whitifh flowers, male and females on 
feparate plants, of five oval petals; and fucceeded in 
the females by an angular berry, with five feeds, which 
are feldom ufed for lowing, as the plants propagate 
plenteoufly by fuckers. 
CharaRers .—Flowers male and female, feparate on 
two different plants, having a calyx five-leaved; a co¬ 
rolla or flower, five oval petals attached to the cup; 
and in the male flowers ten ftamina, crowned by ob¬ 
long anthera; the females furnifhed with a piftillum, 
becoming an angular berry, containing five kidney- 
Ihaped feeds. 
One Species of hardy CORIARIA, viz. 
Coriaria myrtfolia. Myrtle-leaved Sumach. 
A fmall Ihrub, with many {lender ftems, three or 
four feet high—the leaves {fmall) ovate-oblong, and 
fmall fpikes of whitifh flowers in fummer.—Native of 
Montpelier, in France. {Loamy or any foil.) 
Varieties .—Male Coriaria, producing male flowers 
only. 
Female Coriaria, producing female flow¬ 
ers only. 
Thefe flirubs having creeping roots, fend up many 
fucker-items in a thicketty growth; is employed in 
Ihrubberies for variety, and to fupply vacancies, 
where a full growth is required in any particular com¬ 
partments : they may be had at molt of the nurferies, 
for planting, in the proper feafons ; and may be propa¬ 
gated plentifully by the abundant root-fuckers taken 
up in autumn or fpring, with roots, and planted in a 
nurfery for a year or two, or fome at once where they 
are to remain, or will grow by layers. 
In their growth in fhrubberies, it does not require 
any particular culture, only, if thought neceflary, to 
clear out-fuckers where too confiderably increafed. 
Cornus, CORNEL TREE, or Cornelian 
Cherry, Dog-Wood, &c. 
Clafs and Order. 
Tetrandria Monogynia, 
Four Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants, having Flowers, containing four Stamina or 
Males, and one Pif ilium or Female Part. 
THE Cornel family furnifhes three hardy fpecies, 
and fcveral varieties, of moderate tree and Ihrub kinds, 
all of the deciduous tribe; employed, principally, for 
diverfifying Ihrubberies, as flowering-trees and Ihrubs; 
and fome, occafionally, for their fruit: grow eight or 
ten, to fifteen or twenty feet high, in the different 
fpecies; garnilhed in fummer with oblong, oval and 
heart-fhape leaves, of middling fizes; and many 
fmall, yellowifh and white flowers, in umbellate cluf- 
ters, in a four-leaved involucrum ; with each floret, a 
monophyllous four-dented cup, four petals, four fta¬ 
mina, and a roundifh germen and {lender ftyle; fuc¬ 
ceeded by a roundifh berry, including a fmall nut or 
ftone: ripe in autumn, by which the fpecies are pro¬ 
pagated, alfo by layers and cuttings. 
Generic Charafters .—Hermaphrodite flowers, many 
together in an umbellate bunch, contained in One ge¬ 
neral involucrum, four-leaved and coloured; a fmall 
calyx one-leaved, four-dented to each flower; the 
corolla or flower, four fmall, plane petals; ftamina, 
four ereft filaments, higher than the petals, crowned 
by roundilh anthera; a round germen under the calyx, 
having a {lender ftyle, terminated by an obtufe ftigma; 
and the germen grows a roundilh or oval, drupaceous 
berry, containing a nut, furnifhed with an oblong ker¬ 
nel. 
The Species of Woody CORNUS are, 
1. Cornus mas, Male, Cornel Tree, or Cornelian 
Cherry. 
A fmall, deciduous tree, growing fifteen feet high 
or more; a tree ftem—the leaves oblong obverfe- 
hearted; and flower-umbells and involucrums equal; 
with clofe growing flowers in February or March, fuc¬ 
ceeded by cherry like, eatable fruit, for tarts.—Na¬ 
tive of Auftria, America, &c. {Any common foil.) 
Varieties. —Red-berried Common Cornel Tree, or 
Cornelian Cherry. 
White-fruited Cornel Tree. 
2. Co rn us fanguinea. Bloody Twig, Female Cor¬ 
nus, or Common Dogwood. 
A fmaller tree or large Ihrub, eight, to ten or twelve 
feet high, with blood-red {hoots—the leaves (middling 
fisce) oblong-cordate, pointed ; and cymofe, naked 
flower umbells.—Native of England and moft parts of 
Europe, in hedges, and in America. (Any foil.) 
3 . Cornus florida, Florid, Male Cornus, or Virginia 
Dogwood. 
A large Ihrub, eight or ten feet high, with red 
{hoots—the leaves (largijh) oblong; and white flow¬ 
ers in corymbus bunches, having a large, white invo¬ 
lucrum, folioles obverfe-hearted.—Native of Virginia 
and other parts of North America. (Any common 
foil.) 
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