The most interesting plants in this order are the Witch Hazel (_Hamamelis virginica_), and _Fothergilla alnifolia_. In the first of these plants, there are four long narrow petals, and the calyx is four-lobed; and there are eight stamens, of which four are fertile, and four barren. There are two styles, and the capsules are leathery and two-celled, and two-valved, with one seed inclosed in an aril in each cell. The Witch Hazel has the peculiarity of coming into flower when it drops its leaves in autumn, remaining in flower all winter, and forming its fruit in spring, just as it is opening its new leaves. The flowers are yellow, and very pretty from their great abundance, and the light feathery effect produced by the great length and narrowness of the petals. The leaves are rough and feather-nerved, like those of the Hazel. Fothergilla is a pretty little shrub with terminal spikes of white flowers with yellow anthers, which are sweet-scented and appear before the leaves. ORDER C.—CAPRIFOLIACEÆ, OR THE HONEYSUCKLE TRIBE. This order, as originally constituted, may be divided into three tribes, viz., _Corneæ_, containing _Cornus_, _Benthamia_, and, according to some, _Aucuba_; _Sambuceæ_, containing _Sambucus_ and _Viburnum_; and _Lonicereæ_, containing _Symphoria_, _Caprifolium_, _Lonicera_, _Leycesteria_, _Linnæa_, &c. Cornus, Benthamia, and some other genera, among which Dr. Lindley places Aucuba, are now formed into a separate order, under the name of _Cornaceæ_. The different species of Dogwood (_Cornus_) are known by the smooth bark of their stems and branches, which is frequently red, or reddish brown; by their white flowers, which are produced either in heads, or umbels, or in corymbose panicles; by their red or blackish berries; and by their coarse feather-nerved leaves. The principal species of Cornus are the wild or female Cornel (_C. sanguinea_); the common Dogwood (_C. alba_); the male Cornel, or Cornelian Cherry (_C. mas_); and American Dogwood (_C. florida_). All these plants have a very small four-toothed calyx, and a corolla of four petals. There are four stamens and one style. The fruit is a berry-like drupe. Some of the species, as for example _C. florida_, have a large involucre of four leaves, having the appearance of petals. _Benthamia fragifera_, called by Dr. Wallich _C. capitata_, has an involucre of four leaves of yellow, tinged with red, surrounding a head of small greenish inconspicuous flowers. The fruit consists of a number of drupes, grown together like a Mulberry, with six, eight, or more seeds, surrounded with a viscid pulp. The leaves are long and tapering, of a fine texture, and of a light green above, and silvery white below.