There was a large quantity of cornel, red maple, and also willow and aspen boughs, stuck through between the logs on all sides, butt ends out, and on their leaves it was browsing.
"Canoeing in the wilderness"
Henry David Thoreau
610 78. 'Now since thou hast, although so very small, Science of arts so glorious, thus I swear,- And let this cornel javelin, keen and tall, Witness between us what I promise here,- That I will lead thee to the Olympian Hall, 615 Honoured and mighty, with thy mother dear, And many glorious gifts in joy will give thee, And even at the end will ne'er deceive thee.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
A riot of blossoms fringes the banks-the uplifted magenta torches of the fireweed, tufts of vivid golden-rod, the pink petals of the rose, and a clustering carpet of moss dotted with the dead white of the dwarf cornel.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron