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Dicotyledons with Polypetalous Flowers . 
Natural Order 
CORNACEiE. Tab. 42. 
Diagnosis. —Usually shrubs or trees with opposite simple exstipulate 
leaves. Flowers regular. Stamens epigynous, as many as petals and 
alternate with them. 
Distribution. —A small Natural Order, chiefly confined to the North Temperate zone, both in 
the Old and New World. 
One British Genus ; Species, 2. 
Flowers cymose in Dogwood ( Gornus sanguined), umbellate and involucrate in Dwarf Cornel (( 7 . suecica), 
capitate and consolidated in Garden Benthamia ( Benthamia fragifera). 
USES, &c.—Charcoal suitable for the finer sorts of gunpowder is stated to be afforded by the wood of Dog¬ 
wood. The “ Variegated Laurel” of our shrubberies is the pistillate plant of a dioecious Japanese species (Aucuba 
japonica): the staminate plant has been recently introduced. A few species of Cornus, the Asiatic Benthamia 
fragifera, and one or two species of the anomalous North American genus Garrya are also cultivated. 
