Dentaria
coral-root, a genus of plants, natural order Cruciferæ. There are about 20 species, natives of temperate countries. They are ornamental herbs, with creeping singularly toothed root-stocks, from which they receive the names of coral-root and toothwort. The stem-leaves are opposite or in whorls of three, and the flowers are large and purare used as mustard. DENNY, COLLINS, an American ple. D. bulbifera, the only British spe- Methodist Episcopal bishop and educator, cies, is a rare plant in the S. E. of Engborn in Winchester, Va., in 1854. He land. D. diphylla, or pepperwort, a graduated from Princeton University in North American species, has roots that 1876 and after studying law began practicing in Baltimore in 1877. In 1880 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the South and was engaged in missions with that denomination for several years, and from 1891 to 1910 he was professor of mental and moral philosophy at the Vanderbilt University. In the latter year he was appointed bishop of the Methodist Epis-