mas by Opiz in 1838 and this species and its allies would therefore constitute the genus Cornus in the narrow sense (syn. Although Linnaeus did not designate a type-species for the genus Cornus, the name had been restricted to C. Flowers borne in dense umbels with a yellowish involucre which falls as the flowers open. The generic name is also speltвЂ™ SwyjdaвЂ™ or вЂ SvidaвЂ™.Дў. Considered as a genus, this group would take the name Swida Opiz (1838) (syn. This is the largest group and contains all the species described in this work except those mentioned by name under the other three groups. Flowers borne in corymbose inflorescences which lack both bracts and bracteoles. The dismemberment of Cornus is not accepted in this work but in the following analysis the names of the segregate genera are given, together with their authors and synonymy.ДЎ. The species of Cornus treated in this work can conveniently be classified into four units, each of which should, in the opinion of some botanists, be given generic rank. Many of the cornels are characterised by having the hairs of the leaf flattened to the surface and attached to it by their centres. Fruit a drupe containing a two-celled stone. Flowers usually white, sometimes greenish or yellowish, always small, and produced in terminal corymbs or cymes, or clustered densely in heads the parts of each flower are in fours. controversa both of which have alternate leaves. capitata, more or less evergreen in mild districts and C.

Trees or shrubs with usually deciduous opposite leaves, the only exceptions being C.

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