ioo CORNACEAE (DOGWOOD FAMILY) 



COENACEAE (DOGWOOD FAMILY) 



Usually shrubs or trees, with opposite or alternate simple leaves, 

 epigynous flowers, stamens as many as the petals, style i, and 

 fruit a i or 2-seeded drupe. 



CORNUS 



Leaves opposite, except in the last species, and entire. Flowers 

 small, perfect, 4-merous, in naked cymes or in close heads sur- 

 rounded by a corolla-like involucre. Drupe small, with a 2-celled 

 and 2-seeded stone. 



C. canadensis, BUNCHBERRY. Stems low and simple, from a slender 



rootstock; lower leaves scale-like, upper ones crowded into an apparent 

 whorl, ovate and pointed ; flowers greenish- 

 white (or petals purple-tipped), in a close 

 cluster surrounded by an involucre of white or 

 pinkish, ovate, shoft-acuminate bracts. Cool 

 woods. June, July. 



C. florida, FLOWERING DOGWOOD. A tree be- 

 coming 12 m. high; leaves ovate and pointed, 

 bracts of the involucre white or pinkish, ob- 

 cordate, 3-6 cm. long. Dry woods. May, June. 

 C. stolonifera, RED-OSIER DOGWOOD. Branches 

 bright red-purple, smooth ; leaves ovate, 

 rounded at base, abruptly short-pointed, 

 minutely pubescent both sides, whitish beneath; 



naked cymes small and flat ; fruit white or lead-color. Wet ground. 



June, July. 



C. paniculata, PANICLED 



DOGWOOD. Shrub becoming 



2.5 m. high ; branches smooth, 



gray; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 



acute at base, taper-pointed, 



whitish beneath but not 



downy; naked cymes convex, 



loose ; fruit white, on bright 



red pedicels. Thickets and Cornus paniculata, Panicled dogwood. 



shores. June, July. 



C. alternifolia, ALTERNATE-LEAVED DOGWOOD. Shrub or tree 2-6 m. 



high, with greenish branches streaked with white; the alternate leaves 



Cornus florida. Flower- 

 ing dogwood. 



